Animesh Kujur, India’s quickest man, misses podium at Monaco Diamond League by a whisker

India’s quickest man, Animesh Kujur, missed the rostrum on the Monaco Diamond League by simply 0.13 seconds. Collaborating within the males’s U23 200m remaining, Animesh clocked a time of 20.55 seconds, falling simply in need of his private better of 20.32.

Animesh’s timings have been affected by a robust headwind at Monaco, which blew at -1.9 m/s. Animesh completed fourth within the race, behind Australian prodigy Gout Gout, who clocked a time of 20.10, as soon as once more simply in need of his finest time of 20.02.

Botswana’s Busang Collen Kebinatshipi received silver, whereas South Africa’s Jack Naeem clinched the bronze medal. Kujur completed simply behind Naeem, ending 0.132 seconds behind the athlete’s 20.42 seconds.

Lately, Animesh Kujur smashed the 100m nationwide report with an unimaginable time of 10.18 seconds on the Dromia Worldwide Dash and Relays Assembly in Greece. Sprinting within the second warmth of the competitors, the 22-year-old Kujur turned the first-ever Indian to register a sub-10.20 second time within the 100m, bettering Gurindervir Singh’s earlier nationwide report of 10.20 seconds on the meet in Vari, a suburb of the Greek capital Athens.

Kujur at the moment holds each the 100m and 200m nationwide data. He had clocked 20.32 seconds within the males’s 200m remaining of the Asian Athletics Championships in South Korea in Could to interrupt his personal earlier nationwide mark of 20.40 seconds, set on the Federation Cup earlier within the yr.

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