Parul Chaudhary betters steeplechase nationwide file, qualifies for World Championship
Parul Chaudhary opened her 2025 athletics season with a landmark efficiency, breaking the nationwide file within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase and qualifying for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Competing on the Doha Diamond League on Friday night time, the 28-year-old clocked 9:13.39, bettering her personal earlier mark of 9:15.31 set on the World Championships in Budapest two years in the past.
The hassle earned her a sixth-place end in a high-calibre discipline on the Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium. Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai, the Paris 2024 silver medallist, adopted Parul in seventh place, underscoring the standard of the Indian athlete’s run.
“I felt superb within the race,” Parul advised reporters post-event. “The climate was additionally good. Contemplating the way in which I skilled, the race went effectively. That is the primary time in two years my season-opener has been good.”
The timing additionally comfortably cleared the World Championships qualifying customary of 9:18.00, confirming Parul’s participation within the Tokyo meet scheduled for September.
The race was received by Kenya’s Religion Cherotich in a world-leading 9:05.08. Bahrain’s Olympic champion Winfred Yavi took second with 9:05.26, whereas Ethiopian Sembo Almayew completed third in 9:09.27.
Parul’s efficiency comes as a serious enhance for Indian athletics, significantly within the steeplechase self-discipline, the place world competitors has grown more and more intense. Along with her run in Doha, she not solely reaffirmed her standing as India’s premier steeplechaser but in addition positioned herself among the many prime contenders heading into a vital championship yr.
GULVEER FINISHES 9TH IN MEN’S 5000M
Elsewhere in Doha, India’s Gulveer Singh made his Diamond League debut within the males’s 5000m, ending ninth with a time of 13:24.32. The 25-year-old, who received bronze within the 10,000m on the Asian Video games and set the Indian 5000m file earlier this yr with a 12:59.77 effort in Boston, was competing in opposition to a packed discipline led by Kenya’s Reynold Cheruiyot.
Cheruiyot received the lads’s 5000m in Doha, setting a brand new private better of 13:16.40.
