The Railways’ hurdler turns into the primary Indian to go below 13 seconds within the occasion on the 61st National Open athletics championships
The Railways’ hurdler turns into the primary Indian to go below 13 seconds within the occasion on the 61st National Open athletics championships
Jyothi Yarraji turned the primary Indian to go below 13 seconds within the girls’s 100m hurdles by breezing previous the end line in 12.82 seconds on the 61st National Open athletics championships on the Sree Kanteerava Stadium right here on Monday.
The 23-year-old had clocked 12.79 on the not too long ago held National Games in Gujarat, but it surely wasn’t thought-about a National document as a result of it got here with a +2.5 m/s tailwind help. Anything over 2 m/s doesn’t rely for a document.
The Open being her final occasion of the season, she appeared decided to exit on a excessive by including the gold to the Inter-University, Federation Cup and National Games titles she had already received.
Jyothi Yarraji (319) of Railways, after profitable the Women’s 100m Hurdles, in the course of the 61st National Open Athletics Championship 2022, on the Sree Kanteerva Stadium, in Bengaluru on October 17, 2022.
| Photo Credit: Ok. MURALI KUMAR
She clocked 13.17s within the heats to erase Anuradha Biswal’s earlier meet document of 13.38 set approach again in 2002.
However, the skies opened up barely an hour earlier than the ultimate, making the circumstances damp and delaying the much-awaited sprint by 20 minutes.
But Yarraji appeared unperturbed, as she took the lead across the 40m mark and ended up shaving over two-tenths of a second from her earlier National document of 13.04s. Yarraji now holds the 4 finest instances by an Indian girl.
“It’s a relief to get it (dip under 13 seconds),” stated James Hillier, Jyothi’s coach on the Odisha Reliance Foundation High Performance Centre. “The conditions were not the best, which made the performance even better. It’s the coming of age season for her.”
Jyothi Yarraji (319) of Railways, profitable the Women’s 100m Hurdles, in the course of the 61st National Open Athletics Championship 2022, on the Sree Kanteerva Stadium, in Bengaluru on October 17, 2022.
| Photo Credit: Ok. MURALI KUMAR
The outcomes: Men: 110m hurdles: 1. Maymon Poulose (Ser) 13.97s, 2. Tejas Ashok Shirse (Mah) 13.98, 3. Sachin Babu (Ser) 14.19; 5000m: 1. Sunil Dawar (MP) 14:10.45; 2. Gulveer Singh (Ser) 14:11.24, 3. Kiran Matre (Ser) 14:14.35; Pole vault: 1. Parshant Singh Kanhiya (Rly) 5.15m (NMR; OR: 5.21, S. Siva, 2021); 2. S. Siva (Ser) 5.00, 3. Shekhar Kumar Pandey (UP) 5.00; 4x100m relay: 1. Railways 39.75s (NMR; OR: 39.89, Railways, 2006), 2. Services 40.21, 3. Maharashtra 40.50.
Women: 100m hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji (Rly) 12.82s (NMR; OR: 13.38, Anuradha Biswal, 2002), 2. Sapna Kumari (Jha) 13.26, 3. Agasara Nandini (Tel) 13.51; 5000m: 1. Parul Chaudhary (Rly) 16:24.90, 2. Seema (HP) 16:25.17, 3. Komal Chandrakant Jag (Rly) 16:28.89; Shot put: 1. Manpreet Kaur (Pun) 16.84m, 2. Abha Khatua (Mah) 15.72, 3. Paramjot Kaur (Rly) 15.25; 4x100m relay: 1. Railways, 44.98s (NMR; OR: 45.23, Railways, 2019), 2. Karnataka 46.09, 3. Tamil Nadu 46.38.
Source: www.thehindu.com
