Rupal, the 17-year-old from Meerut, shocked under-20 Worlds combined relay bronze medallist Priya H. Mohan and received the ladies’s 400m gold on the 20 th National Federation Cup under-20 athletics championships at Nadiad, Gujarat, on Friday.
Rupal, the silver medallist behind Priya on the varsities Nationals in Bhubaneswar in February, pipped the junior worldwide by one-hundredth of a second and clocked a private finest 52.48s (earlier 53.05). It was Priya’s first loss within the 400m in an Indian competitors in almost three years and Rupal was competing in her first AFI National meet this 12 months.
Meanwhile Shaili Singh, final 12 months’s under-20 Worlds silver medallist, received the ladies’s lengthy bounce with 6.11m. A giant bunch of athletes, together with three in males’s 10,000m race stroll and 110m hurdles, achieved the qualification commonplace for the under-20 Worlds to be held in Colombia in August.
The outcomes (gold winners solely):
Men: 100m: Aman Khokhar (UP) 10.56s. 400m: H. Rihan (Kar) 48.31s. 110m hurdles: M. Krishik (Kar) 14.02s. 10,000m race stroll: Rohitkumar Yadav (Guj) 43:06.16s. Long bounce: Chandrasekhar (UP) 7.65m. Javelin throw: Vivek (MP) 69.99m. Shot put: Sanyam (Har) 19.42m. Decathlon: Sunil Kumar (Har) 6788 pts.
Women: 100m: Priyanka Sikarwar (UP) 11.88s. 400m: Rupal (UP) 52.48s. 100m hurdles: Agasara Nandini (Tel) 13.97s. Long bounce: Shaili Singh (UP) 6.11m. High Jump: Khyati Mathur (UP) 1.73m. Pole vault: Vanshika Ghanghas (Har) 3.40m. Discus throw: Kiran (Rajasthan) 46.66m.
Source: www.thehindu.com