Going the space: Sachin Yadav produced a private greatest 84.39m and broke the meet report by greater than two metres whereas successful the gold. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Thrilled! Haryana’s Pooja took gold in girls’s excessive bounce. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Tamil Nadu’s Vithya Ramraj received the ladies’s 400m hurdles. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Kerala clinched the 4X400 blended staff relay. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Uttarakhand’s Ankita received the ladies’s 5000m occasion. | Photograph: RITU RAJ KONWAR
With Neeraj Chopra exhibiting the way in which along with his Olympic and World Championship golds, there may be now a bunch of Indian javelin throwers who really feel they will get on to the massive stage too. And the group seems to be getting larger and larger.
Sachin Yadav is one among them. The 25-year-old from Uttar Pradesh produced a private greatest 84.39m and broke the meet report by greater than two metres whereas successful the gold within the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games on the Ganga Stadium right here on Wednesday. With that, he climbed to the fifth rung in India’s all-time listing within the occasion.
Nonetheless, Sachin was a bit upset.
“My purpose was to realize the World Championship computerized qualification mark (85.50m) however I missed it,” mentioned Sachin. “I’m near it and I ought to be capable to obtain it in my subsequent competitors.”
Tall and effectively constructed, Sachin seemed to be pumped up right now. And along with his State-mate Rohit Yadav additionally uncorking two 80m throws, the battle for gold was intense. Ultimately, Sachin’s fifth spherical introduced him the title beating Rohit.
On the different finish, defending excessive bounce champion Pooja was in a world of her personal. Whereas the remainder of the sphere pale away at 1.79m, the 17-year-old from Haryana bettered Swapna Barman’s three-year-old Video games report by one centimetre, clearing 1.84m, after which tried 1.87 however failed in all her three makes an attempt.
“I used to be the most effective junior excessive jumper within the nation, now I need to be the most effective amongst seniors too. I wished to do 1.87 however my well being was not excellent right now,” mentioned Pooja.
“My subsequent goal is 1.90 and I’ll do it this 12 months.”
In the meantime, Asian Video games bronze medallist Vithya Ramraj lived as much as her billing by successful the ladies’s 400m hurdles. “I’m pleased with the gold however not with the time, this competitors is just too early within the season, it was very troublesome,” mentioned the 25-year-old from Tamil Nadu.
The ultimate day of the Video games athletics competitors noticed one other report falling. Himachal Pradesh’s Sawan Barwal, who had bettered the ten,000m meet report on the opening morning, broke G. Lakshmanan’s 5000m Video games report whereas successful the gold comfortably.
The outcomes:
Males: 5000m: 1. Sawan Barwal (HP) 13:45.93s MR, OR G. Lakshmanan’s 13:50.05, 2015; 2. Gagan Singh (Har) 14:00.04, 3. Sunil Dawar (MP) 14:01.33. 400m hurdles: 1. Ruchit Mori (Guj) 50.97s, 2. Hardeep (Pun) 51.02, 3. Rohan Kamble (Mah) 51.77. Javelin throw: 1. Sachin Yadav (UP) 84.39m MR, OR Rajinder Singh’s 82.23, 2015; 2. Rohit Yadav (UP) 80.47, 3. Vikash Sharma (Utk) 79.33..
Ladies: 5000m: 1. Ankita (Utk) 15:56.03s, 2. Sanjivani Jadav (Mah) 15:59.12, 3. Poona Sonune (Mah) 16:53.52. 400m hurdles: 1. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 58.11s, 2. S.Okay. Sreevarthani (TN) 59.86, 3. Neha Dhabale (Mah) 1:00.52. Excessive bounce: 1. Pooja (Har) 1.84m MR, OR Swapna Barman’s 1.83, 2022; 2. Okay. Gobika (TN) 1.79m, 3. S. Abhinaya Shetty (Kar) 1.77. Shot put: 1. Jasmine Kaur (Pun) 15.97m, 2. Vidhi (UP) 15.46, 3. Srishti Vig (Del) 15.46m.
Combined: 4x400m relay: 1. Kerala (T.S. Manu, Okay. Sneha, J. Bejoy, Ansa Babu) 3:25.35s, 2. Maharashtra (3:25.66), 3. Punjab (3:26.35).
Printed – February 12, 2025 08:17 pm IST
