Nayana James.
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Regardless of rain being a problem, former Asian bronze medallist Nayana James got here up with a 6.43m effort as she shocked Japan’s Asian champion Sumire Hata (6.37m) and received the lengthy leap gold on the Taiwan Athletics Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze occasion, in Taipei on Sunday.
At No. 68 Nayana, the Federation Cup champion, is method under the younger Shaili Singh (No. 43) within the World Athletics’ Highway to Paris rankings and each the Indians will likely be attempting their finest to make it to the highest 32 who will qualify for subsequent month’s Olympics earlier than the qualification doorways shut on June 30.
In the meantime, Ankesh Choudhary (1:50.63s) and Somnath Chouhan (1:50.88) received the gold and silver within the males’s 800m whereas Dev Meena Kumar (5.10m) took the boys’s pole vault title. And Aditya Kumar, who had an 8.01m leap in early April, might handle solely 7.31m for sixth place in males’s lengthy leap.
In France, Commonwealth Video games champion Eldhose Paul received the boys’s triple leap gold with 16.24m regardless of being distant from his finest whereas Jesse Sandesh took the boys’s excessive leap title with 2.18m on the Assembly de Limoges.
In Spain Animesh Kujur, who turned 21 on Sunday, received the boys’s 200m title with a wind-assisted 20.59s (+4.9) within the Metropolis of Salamanca Athletics Trophy meet at Salamanca on Saturday.
He additionally clocked the quickest 100m time by an Indian outdoors the nation whereas ending fourth within the occasion in 10.27s. And Tejas Shirse, who bettered the 110m hurdles nationwide report along with his 13.41s in Finland just lately, completed second in Salamanca in 13.57s.