RANCHI: National Games champion Gulveer Singh helped a bunch of 11 runners obtain the Asian Championship qualification time as he comfortably gained the boys’s 10,000m title within the 26 th National Federation Cup athletics championships on the Birsa Munda Stadium right here on Monday.
However, the 24-year-old from UP and his second-placed Statemate Abhishek Pal have been slower than their private greatest. And although there’s a crowd making the Asian championship entry normal, solely two can go to Thailand for the occasion in July.
Maharashtra’s Sanjivani Jadhav, the ladies’s 10,000m winner, had no such luck lacking the Asian normal by 33s.
There have been simply 5 finals on the championships’ opening day however there was loads of motion in different occasions. There was some disappointment too with Amoj Jacob, the nation’s quickest male quartermiler for the third straight 12 months, pulling up throughout the heats within the morning.
“Nothing to worry, he felt some pain during the event. He wanted to be cautious and stopped,” Radhakrishnan Nair, the chief National coach, informed The Hindu.
Later within the night, Tamil Nadu’s Rajesh Ramesh joined Amoj Jacob because the quickest Indian quartermiler this 12 months after topping the semifinal heats with 46.13s. National document holder Muhammed Anas, who has now left the nationwide camp and is now coaching below his previous coach P.B. Jaikumar in Thiruvananthapuram, was the following greatest with 46.27s.
And within the ladies’s 400m, Aishwarya Mishra moved to the highest of this 12 months’s India checklist whereas rising because the quickest qualifier to the ultimate in 52.85s. She additionally achieved the AFI’s Asian meet’s qualifying normal (53.54) together with R. Vithya (53.32) and Priya Mohan (53.49).
Later within the night time, Muhammed Nur Hasan and Tanya Chaudhary – the boys’s and ladies’s winners within the 3000m steeple chase – additionally made the cut for the Asians.
The outcomes (finals):
Men: 1. Gulveer Singh (UP) 29:05.90s, 2. Abhishek Pal (UP) 29:07.11, 3. Rohit Kumar (Del) 29:08.95.
3000m steeplechase: 1. Md Nur Hasan (UP) 8:30.56s, 2. Vikram Singh (MP) 8:40.20, 3. Sumit Kumar (Del) 8:48.49.
Women: 10,000m: 1. Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah) 33:32.73s, 2. Kavita Yadav (UP) 34:05.47, 3 Seema (HP) 34:43.66s.
3000m steeplechase: 1. Priti Lamba (Har) 9:47.78s, 2. Bhagyashree Lahanu (Guj) 10:24.03s, 3. Komal Chandraka (Mah) 10:25.32.
Hammer throw: 1. Tanya Chaudhary (UP) 60.54m, 2. Sarita Singh (UP) 60.45, 3. Manpreet Kaur (Pun) 57.08.