Bhubaneswar
Tamil Nadu’s Worldwide low hurdler, T Santosh Kumar clinched the primary medal on the opening day of the twenty seventh Nationwide Federation Senior Athletics Competitors right here at eight lane Kalinga Stadium on Sunday. His gold medal successful time was 50.04 seconds.
It was nice climate within the night session on account of in a single day rain right here, however the 25 years previous Asian bronze medalist wasn’t in a position to obtain his desired purpose in the course of the medal spherical. “I had deliberate to interrupt the 50 seconds barrier right here in Bhubaneswar. However one thing went improper someplace,” he mentioned within the blended zone after successful the gold medal.
On the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships held in Bangkok, Santosh Kumar clocked 49.09 seconds to win bronze. The Tamil Nadu hurdler was, nevertheless, assured of breaking the 50 seconds barrier in coming weeks because it was essential for him to enhance his international rating and qualify for the Paris Olympic Video games ranging from July 26 in France. “I’ll compete in Taiwan on the finish of this month,” he revealed. “Hopefully I can obtain my purpose.”
Asian Video games medalist Vithya Ramraj wasn’t in a position so as to add one other gold to Tamil Nadu’s crew as she stopped instantly after the beginning of the race. Later she claimed that she has again ache and is present process rehab. “I’ll come again strongly,” she mentioned.
In her absence the gold went to Veerpal Kaur of Punjab. She clocked 59.43 seconds. The Punjab’s hurdler mentioned she couldn’t have completed higher however there wasn’t anybody to problem her within the race. “My purpose was 58 seconds. However I missed it,” she added.
Away from low hurdles, it was begin to end for West Bengal’s Lilly Das on her debut within the ladies’s 5,000m race. She lapped the final runner and completed 250m forward of the second runner. Her gold medal successful time was 16:31.05. Kerala’s Gokul KR was main day-one of gruelling decathlon. He secured 3665 factors on the finish of the day. Delhi’s Neeraj Kumar was trailing at second place with 3442 factors. Whereas Tamil Nadu’s Stalin Joes was at third spot with 3407 factors.
Outcomes:
Males:
400m hurdles: Santosh Kumar T (Tamil Nadu) 50.04 seconds, Nikhil Bhardwaj (Punjab) 50.92 seconds, Dhaval Mahesh Utekar (Gujarat) 51.13 seconds. Pole vault: Dev Kumar Meena (Madhya Pradesh) 5.10m, Shekhar Kumar Pandey (Uttar Pradesh) 4.90m, Hariharan R (Tamil Nadu) 4.0m.
Ladies:
5,000m: Lilly Das (West Bengal)16:31.05 seconds, Poonam Dinkar (Maharashtra) 17:02.51 seconds, Kiran (Haryana) 17:06.64.
400m hurdles: Veerpal Kaur (Punjab) 59.43 seconds, Salini Valuparambil (Kerala) 1:00.73 seconds, Ramandeep Kaur (Punjab) 1:01.29 seconds.
Javelin throw: Rashmi Okay (Andhra Pradesh) 54.75m, Karishma S (Karnataka) 49.91m, Rupinder Kaur (Punjab) 47.66m.
Triple bounce: M Anusha (Andhra Pradesh) 13.53m, Sheena NV (Kerala) 13.32m, Gayathry Sivakumar (Kerala) 13.08m.