R. Yugendran received the Pole Vault on the Indian Grand Prix Athlete occasion at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Might 30, 2024.
| Photograph Credit score: R. Ragu
Tamil Nadu’s R. Yugendran set a brand new Grand Prix file of 5.20m, which he cleared in his second try, to clinch gold within the males’s pole vault occasion of the second Indian Grand Prix of the season on the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Chennai on Might 30.
Yugendran broke the earlier file of 5m, set by Gajanan Kumar Upadhayay of Indian Railways in Bengaluru within the 12 months 2010.
Three-way contest
It was a three-way competitors between Kerala’s Mariya Jaison (Kerala), and Tamil Nadu’s Baranica Elangovan and Pavithra Venkatesah for 3.90m in ladies’s pole vault.
Baranica cleared the mark in her second try, Mariya in her third, whereas Pavithra failed in all her three makes an attempt.
Baranica went on to scale 4m.
Vithya Ramraj claimed gold in 57.28s within the ladies’s 400m hurdles, whereas Abha Khatua received the ladies’s shot put occasion gold with 17.13m.
The outcomes:
Ladies: Pole vault: 1. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 4m; 2. Mariya Jaison (Ker) 3.90; V. Karthika (TN) 3.10.
400m hurdles: 1. R. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 57.28s; 2. Ramandeep Kaur (Pun) 1:01.60; 3. Mugada Sireesha (AP) 1:03.06.
Javelin throw: 1. Anjani Kumari (Bhr) 47.75m; 2. Hemamalini Neelakanda (TN) 47.47; 3. Lalita Choudhary (Raj) 42.09.
Shot put: 1. Abha Khatua (Mah) 17.13m; 2. M. Sharmila (TN) 12.90; 3. B. Vaishnavi (TN) 12.82.
Triple bounce: 1. G. Pavithra (Kar) 13.14m; 2. I. Asha Ilango (TN) 12.98; 3. Sharvari Avinash Parule (Mah) 12.95.
200m: 1. Srabani Nanda (Odi) 24.49s; 2. A.T. Daneshwari (Kar) 25.06; 3. J. Dhivya (TN) 25.26.
1500m: 1. S. Neelambari (TN) 4:24.16s; 2. Thota Sankeertana (Cht) 4:26.84; 3. Elavarasi Kumaran (TN) 4:26.96.
400m: Race-A: 1. R. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 53s; 2. T.R. Sinchal Kaveramma (Kar) 53.70; 3. Aishwarya Mishra (Mah)53.79.
Race-B: 1. B.A. Anankha (Ker) 54.37s; 2. M.A. Nathaliea Evangelin (TN) 54.83; 3. Ramandeep Kaur (Pun) 57.40.
5000m: 1. Beby (UP) 17:30.91s; 2. Sanghamitra Mahata (Jha) 17:39.71; 3. Pooja (Raj) 18:09.57.
Males: 400m hurdles: Race-A: 1. Jabir Madari Palliyalil (Ker) 49.94s; 2. T. Santhosh Kumar (TN) 50.14; 3. Ok. Sathish (TN) 51.46.
Race-B: 1. Akhilbabu Akhilnivas (Ker) 52.47; 2. Jerome Sanjay Nishanth (TN) 53.89; 3. S. Jagathish (TN) 53.98.
200m: Race-A: 1. S. Nallubothu Shanumaga (AP) 21.18s; 2. Varun Oori Manohar (TN) 21.70; 3. S. Tamil Arasu (TN) 21.92.
Race-B: 1. R. Manav (TN) 21.70s; 2. S. Santhosh (TN) 21.94; 3. S. Manojkumar (TN) 22.19.
Pole vault: 1. R. Yugendran (TN) 5.20m; 2. M. Gowtham (TN) 5.10; 3. A.Ok. Sidharth (Ker) 4.90.
Shot put: 1. Parveen (Har) 16.21m; 2. S. Ebenezer (TN) 15.24.
1500m: 1. Ashok Dandasena (Odi) 3:50.44s; 2. U. Priyanshu (Utk) 3:50.60; 3. Adarsh Gopi (Ker) 3:51.90.
Javelin throw: 1. Vikash Sharma (Utk) 52.78m.
Triple bounce: 1. S. Mohammed Salahuddin (TN) 16.40m; 2. U. Karthik (Ker) 16.20; 3. J. Mohanraj (TN) 16.02.
5000m: 1. Deepak Bhatt (Utk) 14:24.66s; 2. Ok. Anandkrishna (Ker) 14:39.90; 3. Mohan Saini (Goa) 14:50.11.
400: Race-A: 1. T. Santhosh Kumar (TN) 46.46s; 2. Ok. Avinash (TN) 47.30; 3. Kapil (Har) 47.66.
Race-B: 1. Aakash Babu Chinthala (TN) 47.75s; 2. Naveen Kumar (TN) 48.26; 3. Rajesh Kumar (TN) 48.98.
Race-C: 1. S.Ok. Kaven (TN) 48.44s; 2. Kapil Khokran (UP) 50.57; 3. Aman Yadav (Del) 53.29.