Highlight on quartermilers and javelin throwers at Federation Championships

Jena should deal with Sachin and Rohit in males’s javelin.
| Photograph Credit score: R. Okay. Nithin

This has been a season of surprises.

Quartermiler Aishwarya Mishra and javelin thrower Sachin Yadav produced some gorgeous private bests on the Dehradun Nationwide Video games, their season-opener, in early February.

And some weeks in the past, Gurindervir Singh broke the boys’s 100m nationwide document whereas triple jumpers Abdulla Aboobacker and Praveen Chithravel impressively went previous the 17m-mark.

The twenty eighth Nationwide Federation Athletics Championships start on the Maharaja’s Stadium right here on Monday and with the meet being the qualification occasion for subsequent month’s Asian Championships in Gumi, South Korea, one can anticipate many extra surprises.

Aishwarya, nonetheless, has chosen to remain away. Kiran Pahal, final 12 months’s quickest feminine quartermiler, and outstanding males’s 400m runner Muhammed Ajmal should not right here too.

Nonetheless, with discuss that there might be main adjustments in relay groups, the highlight might be on the quartermilers. Former World junior bronze medallist Rupal Chaudhary, who ran within the World and Asian Relays final 12 months, can be watched intently.

“The situations look good however I want we had the javelin throw round one thing like 5.30 p.m., and never on the scheduled 4 p.m. which can be scorching,” stated Asian Video games champion javelin thrower Annu Rani, the nationwide document holder.

Whereas Annu is anticipated to take the ladies’s gold comfortably, the boys’s javelin throw may see an intense battle amongst Nationwide Video games champion Sachin Yadav, Asian Video games silver medallist Kishore Kumar Jena and Rohit Yadav.

The four-day meet has attracted 470 athletes, together with 167 ladies.