Rohit Yadav upset D.P. Manu for the javelin throw crown.
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Stan Rayan
Ancy Sojan took the ladies’s lengthy jump gold with a private greatest on the Federation Cup athletics in Ranchi on Thursday.
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Stan Rayan
With 4 males vying for 2 Asian Championship and Asian Games berths, there’s stress increase within the nation’s males’s triple jump circuit.
And Abdulla Aboobacker, the Commonwealth Games silver medallist, received the gold on the concluding day of the twenty sixth National Federation Cup athletics championships right here on Thursday to achieve a small edge within the shut battle.
He was a long way away from his private greatest, the spectacular 17.19m which got here in Bhubaneswar final 12 months, as he topped the sphere right here with 16.76m. But he made it clear that the massive jumps had been only a month away.
“I will try to break the National record (Praveen Chithravel’s 17.37m which came in Cuba recently) at next month’s Inter-State meet in Bhubaneswar,” mentioned the 27-year-old.
“It’s very much possible. Eldhose Paul’s heel is getting better and he and Praveen will be in Bhubaneswar. Then these jumps will change.”
Abdulla, who defeated his pal U. Karthik right here, mentioned the circumstances right here weren’t perfect for good leaping.
“We came here just to qualify for the Asian championship, I had a plan to take the record too. But with the heat around, you feel tired fast, you feel as if your muscles are dried up,” he mentioned.
However, he made the minimize for the Asians which might be held in Thailand in July.
Meanwhile, excessive hurdler Jyothi Yarraji, who appears to be liking the 200m increasingly more as of late, defeated Archana Suseendran — shifting previous her halfway by way of the house stretch — for the second time this season in simply her third strive on the occasion. She had a private greatest (23.42s) and made the minimize for the Asians too.
“That was a very good time, that too against a minus-2 wind,” mentioned Jyothi.
Long jumper Ancy Sojan additionally improved her private greatest by a centimetre as she took the ladies’s lengthy jump gold with 6.56m whereas Delhi’s Chanda, with a fiery run on the house stretch, broke Tintu Luka’s seven-year-old meet document within the ladies’s 800m..
And in males’s javelin, Rohit Yadav upset D.P. Manu to take the title with a private greatest 83.40m.
The outcomes (finals): Men: 200m: 1. Amlan Borgohain (Asm) 20.83s, 2. Animesh Kujur (Cht) 20.94, 3. Kapil (Har) 21.44. 800m: 1. Krishan Kumar (Har) 1:46.83s, 2. Muhammed Afsal (Ker) 1:47.66, 3. Ankesh Chaudhary (HP) 1:48.38. 5000m: 1. Gulveer Singh (UP) 13:54.41s, 2. Abhishek Pal (UP) 13:56.32, 3. Harmanjot Singh (MP) 13:57.02.
400m hurdles: 1. P. Yashas (Kar) 49.40s, 2. T. Santhosh (TN) 49.51, 3. M.P. Jabir (Ker) 49.99. Triple jump: 1. Abdulla Aboobacker (Ker) 16.76m, 2. U. Karthik (Ker) 16.44, 3. Mohammed Salahuddin (TN) 16.03. Pole vault: 1. Dev Meena (MP) 4.80m, 2. Rambeer Singh (Raj) 4.70, 3. Sakthi Mahendran (TN) 4.60.
Javelin: 1. Rohit Yadav (UP) 83.40m, 2. D.P. Manu (Kar) 82.95, 3. Sachin Yadav (UP) 80.27.
Women: 200m: 1. Jyothi Yarraji (AP) 23.42s, 2. Archana Suseendran (TN) 23.61, 3. Himani Chandel (MP) 23.61. 800m: 1. Chanda (Del) 2:01.79s (MR, OR: Tintu Luka’s 2:01.84), 2. Lavika Sharma (Del)2:03.70, 3. Twinkle (2:03.74). 5000m: 1. Ankita (Utr) 15:49.49s, 2. Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah) 15:51.16, 3. Seema (HP) 16:11.72.
400m hurdles: 1. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 57.51s, 2. R. Arathi (Ker) 58.29, 3. R. Anu (Ker) 59.32. Long jump: 1. Ancy Sojan (Ker) 6.56m, 2. Karthika Gothandapani (AP) 6.31, 3. Nayana James (Ker) 6.30.
High jump: 1. Rubina Yadav (Har) 1.80m, 2. Angel Devasia (Ker) 1.76, 3. Khyati Mathur (UP) 1.76. Pole vault: 1. Rosy Meena Paulraj (TN) 4.00m, 2. Pavithra Venkatesh (TN) 4.00, 3. Barbanica Elangovan ((TN) 3.60. Heptathlon: 1. Sowmiya Murugan (AP) 5187 pts, 2. Purnima Hembram (Odi) 5128, 3. Tanushree (Raj) 4655.
