South Asian Junior meet | Siddharth, Pooja and Abinaya break meet information

Siddharth Choudhary, males’s shot put gold winner.
| Photograph Credit score: Ok. Keerthivasan

India’s Siddharth Choudhary and Pooja created new meet information within the males’s shot put and girls’s excessive leap occasions respectively within the South Asian junior athletics meet right here on Wednesday. Within the final occasion of the day, Abinaya Rajarajan of India clinched the gold within the ladies’s 100m in a file time of 11.77s.

Pooja, ladies’s excessive leap champion.
| Photograph Credit score:
Ok. Keerthivasan

Pooja comfortably gained gold at 1.80m, which was higher than the earlier meet file of 1.75m. She tried to enhance on her Nationwide u-20 excessive leap file of 1.83m set lately in Peru on the 2024 World u-20 meet however didn’t cross the bar at 1.84m.

Earlier, Siddharth hurled the iron ball to a file distance of 19.19m. His compatriot Anurag Singh Kaler gained silver with a distance of 18.91m. Sri Lanka dominated the center distance occasions, successful gold in males’s and girls’s 800m occasions.

The outcomes: Males: 100m: 1. Wijesinghe Merone (Sri Lanka) 10.41s (NMR) (OR: A. Yesudas, 10.61, Ranchi, 2013), 2. Weeraratna Dineth (SL) 10.49, 3. Mruthyam Rajaram (IND) 10.56; 800m: 1. H.D. Shavindu Awishka (SL) 1:49.83s (NMR) (OR: P. Verma, 1:52.99, Colombo, 2007), 2. Vinod Kumar (IND) 1:50.07, 3. Bopanna Klappa (IND) 1:50.45; Shot put: 1. Siddharth Choudhary (IND) 19.19m (NMR) (OR: A. Bhalothia, 18.53, 2018, Colombo), 2. Anurag Singh Kaler (IND) 18.91, 3. A. W. Jayavi Ranhidha (SL) 15.62.

Ladies: 100m: 1. Abinaya Rajarajan (IND) 11.77s (NMR) (OR: A. Silva, 11.92, 2018, Colombo), 2. V. Sudheeksha (IND) 11.92, 3. S. Wijetungage (SL) 12.04; 800m: 1. M.G.T. Abhisheka Premasiri (SL) 2:10.17, 2. Laxmi Priya Kisan (IND) 2:10.87, 3. U.M. Sansala Himashani (SL) 2:12.13; Excessive leap: 1. Pooja (IND) 1.80m (NMR) (OR: D. Ranasinghe, 1.75m, 2007, Colombo), 2. D.Ok. Timeshi (SL) 1.65m, 3. V.P. Nethra Samadi (SL) 1.65m.