Vithya units new 400m hurdles meet report

Vithya hurdling her option to glory within the twenty eighth Nationwide Federation athletics championships in Kochi on Wednesday
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Olympian Vithya Ramraj seems to be in Nationwide record-breaking type this season. The 26-year-old from Tamil Nadu broke the six-year-old girls’s 400m hurdles meet report on the twenty eighth Nationwide Federation athletics championships right here on Wednesday and predicted greater issues this yr.

“I may have gone sooner however I used to be drained after yesterday’s 400m. Had we had the hurdles tomorrow, I’d have absolutely completed 54s,” mentioned Vithya who clocked 56.04s and completed greater than two seconds forward of Anu Raghavan.

Vithya equalled the good P.T. Usha’s Nationwide report of 55.42s on the final Asian Video games the place she gained the bronze. She felt the indicators had been good that the 41-year-old report would fall this yr.

Concentrating on the Worlds

“I’m aiming for the Worlds and my aim is 54s. I had clocked 56s early this season, a form of time I may solely handle late final season. I’ll absolutely finish this yr with 54,” mentioned Vithya who additionally achieved the AFI’s qualification commonplace for the Asians.

In the meantime Karnataka’s P. Yashas clocked a private greatest 49.32s whereas successful the boys’s 400m hurdles (49.32s) however was dissatisfied that he couldn’t get the 49.19s for an Asian ticket.

In one other nook of the Maharaja’s Stadium, Punjab’s Nationwide Video games champion Niharika Vashisht was celebrating a triple soar private greatest (13.49m), a last-round effort that noticed her beat Kerala’s Sandra Babu by 1cm for the gold.

The 29-year-old had accomplished a two-year doping suspension in February 2022 and now seems stronger than ever, enhancing her PB by greater than 40cm in a yr’s time.

The outcomes (winners solely):

Males: 400m hurdles: P. Yashas (Kar) 49.32s; 3000m steeplechase: Sunil Joliya Jinabhai (Guj) 8:43.82s; hammer throw: Damneet Singh (Reliance) 68.30m.

Ladies: 400m hurdles: Vithya Ramraj (TN) 56.04s (MR, Previous: 57.21s, Saritaben Gayakwad, 2019); 3000m steeplechase: Manju Ajay Yadav (MP) 10:34.08; triple soar: Niharika Vashisht (Pun) 13:49m; shot put: Vidhi (UP) 16.10m.