A number of up-and-coming athletes, together with under-20 Nationwide report holder pole vaulter Dev Meena and South Asian junior championships silver medallist 100m hurdler Sabita Toppo, promise high quality motion within the thirty ninth Nationwide junior athletics championship beginning right here on Saturday.
With the Kalinga Stadium buzzing because of the presence of round 2000 athletes from 4 age teams, the occasion, which was postponed from October as a consequence of a cyclone risk, will present the kids a platform to evaluate themselves. It should additionally take a look at a couple of others aspiring to compete within the inter-university meets and Nationwide Video games.
For the primary time, the championship could have restrictions in a couple of occasions for the under-14, 16 and 18 athletes because the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is making efforts to discourage early specialisation and facilitate younger athletes’ development.
The emergence of the javelin throwers, after the success of two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra, has been fascinating. The presence of Asian under-20 gold and silver medallists Deepanshu Sharma (Private Greatest: 71.21m) and Rohan Yadav (PB 70.03m) within the males’s class and Nationwide Open bronze medallist Deepika (PB 55.23m) amongst ladies might produce gripping motion.
The 17-year-old Amanat Kamboj, who bagged an Asian under-20 silver in discus with a private greatest of fifty.45m, shall be watched with bated breath. Meena, who set the under-20 mark of 5.20m however narrowly missed the Nationwide report of 5.31m within the under-23 meet at Patna, shall be keen to realize a brand new excessive.
Sabita, who clocked a private better of 13.96 earlier this 12 months, sounded eager to decrease the time additional on her house monitor.
Printed – December 06, 2024 10:42 pm IST
