Nationwide junior athletics | Kiran rewrites his 110m hurdles file

At a canter: Kiran received with ease.
| Photograph Credit score: BISWARANJAN ROUT

Seventeen-year-old Kiran bettered his personal Nationwide file within the under-18 males’s 110m hurdles semifinals within the morning earlier than cruising to the title within the night within the Nationwide junior athletics championships on the Kalinga Stadium right here on Monday.

Kiran erased his 13.52 mark set within the Nationwide youth championships in June by clocking 13.47 within the semifinals, virtually jogging within the final 5 meters.

Within the ultimate, the Palakkad boy produced one other dominant present. “The morning was nice. Later, my physique turned tight and the climate was humid within the night. It may need affected my time within the ultimate,” stated Kiran, whose time was higher than that of the U-20 winner Sandeep Gond.

Pooja, who narrowly missed a brand new Nationwide file as a consequence of a lower-back problem whereas trying 1.85m in excessive soar in a single day, confirmed his grit and achieved the mark in heptathlon.

Jay Kumar smashed Amoj Jacob’s seven-year-old U-20 males’s 400m meet file with a time of 46.29. The Delhi lad, who noticed off Astik Pradhan’s problem regardless of the native favorite clocking his private finest (46.97), missed the Nationwide mark by 0.03 seconds.

The outcomes (winners solely):

Below-20: Males: 400m: Jay Kumar (Del) 46.29 (NMR, Previous, 46.59, Amoj Jacob, 2017); 3000m: Mohit Yadav (MP) 8:16.84; 110m hurdles: Sandeep Gond (Mah) 14.02; 10000m race stroll: Amit Kumar (Cht) 42:18.13; Excessive soar: Sagar Roy (WB) 2.04m; Shot put: Siddharth Chaudhary (Raj) 19.16m; 4x100m relay: Odisha 41.10 (NMR, Previous, 41.28, Tamil Nadu, 2019); Ladies: 400m: Dhesikha V. (TN) 55.03; 3000m: Sonam Parmar (MP) 9:44.16; 100m hurdles: Crystal Vadakel (Mah) 14.10; 4x100m relay: Maharashtra 47.13 (NMR, outdated, 47.18, Kerala, 2019).

Below-18: Males: 400m: Gajendra Singh (Raj) 48.111; 110m hurdles: Kiran Ok. (Ker) 13.64; Lengthy soar: Shahnavaz Khan (UP) 7.72m; Ladies: 400m: Tahura Khatun (WB) 56.01; 100m hurdles: Bhavana G. (TN) 14.42; 3000m race stroll: Shikha Yadav (UP) 14:13.20; Lengthy soar: Thanusha Ok. (TN) 5.70m.

Below-16: Boys: 80m hurdles: Sanaga Thanush Teja (AP) 10.36 (NR, Previous, 10.55, Ok. Shyam Sundar Sahi, 2023); Excessive soar: Zubin Gohain (Asm) 1.76m; Javelin: Dhairya Bhanderi (Guj) 70.12m (NR, Previous, 64.24m, Dhariya Bhanderi, 2024); Women: 80m hurdles: Shourya Ambure (Mah) 11.55; Javelin: Muskan (Har) 46.87m (NR, Previous, 40.01m, Shivani Patel, 2024).