Kerala’s Nayana James, winner of the Women’s Long Jump, throughout the third Indian Open Jumps Competition 2024, on the Anju Bobby High Performance Centre, in Bengaluru on March 20, 2024.
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Kerala’s Nayana James recorded a personal best mark, leaping 6.67m to safe the ladies’s long jump gold on the third Indian Open Jumps Competition held on the Anju Bobby George Foundation right here on Wednesday.
On a day when no athlete threatened the 2024 Paris Olympics qualification mark, the 28-year-old’s effort stood out, coming practically seven years after her earlier best of 6.55m.
Nayana’s best jump got here off her second try, leaving the fancied Shaili Singh with a mountain to climb. The 20-year-old struggled with her rhythm and might solely handle 6.40m.
Nayana’s distance was 16cms off Anju Bobby George’s National document and 19cms behind the Paris mark. But National jumps coach Denis Kapustin, who had a trackside view to the proceedings, termed it the “best jumps result” in latest instances.
Another athlete to achieve a personal excessive was Tamil Nadu’s 22-year-old Pavithra Venkatesh in girls’s pole vault as she scaled 4.15m. It was a candy outcome for the 2023 Asian indoor silver medallist, who couldn’t journey to Tehran final month for the 2024 version as she couldn’t carry her poles by way of cargo.
Pole vaulter Pavithra Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu after her successful jump throughout the third Indian Open Jumps Competition 2024, the at Anju Bobby High Performance Centre, in Bengaluru on March 20, 2024.
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Okay. MURALI KUMAR
“I was happy to get my PB,” Pavithra mentioned. “I went for the National record (4.21m) but couldn’t reach it. But overall I am happy, especially after what happened recently [Tehran fiasco].”
Statemate M. Gowtham scaled 5.10m within the males’s competitors — 30cm higher than his hitherto best — to emerge first.
In males’s triple jump, Commonwealth Games silver medallist Abdulla Aboobacker took gold (16.76m) forward of CWG gold medallist Eldhose Paul (16.45) and Tamil Nadu’s Selva Prabhu (16.32).
Kerala’s Abdulla Aboobacker winner of the boys’s Triple Jump, throughout the third Indian Open Jumps Competition 2024, on the Anju Bobby High Performance Centre, in Bengaluru on March 20, 2024.
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Okay. MURALI KUMAR
The outcomes: Men: High jump: 1. Jesse Sandesh (Kar) 2.20m, 2. Aadarsh Ram (TN) 2.10, 3. Swadhin Kumar Majhi (Odi) 2.10; Long jump: 1. Muhammed Anees Yahiya (Ker) 7.94m, 2. Aditya Kumar Singh (MP) 7.78, 3. Vishnu Siva Sankar (Del) 7.50; Triple jump: 1. Abdulla Aboobacker (Ker) 16.76m, 2. Eldhose Paul (Ker) 16.45, 3. Selva Prabhu (TN) 16.32; Pole vault: 1. M. Gowtham (TN), 5.10m, 2. G. Reegan (TN) 5.00, 3. Shekhar Kumar Pandey (UP) 4.90.
Women: High jump: 1. Athira Somaraj (Ker) 1.76m, 2. Kevinaa Ashwine Annavi (TN) 1.74, 3. Khushi (Har) 1.68; Long jump: 1. Nayana James (Ker) 6.67m, 2. Shaili Singh (UP) 6.40, 3. Susmita (Raj) 6.28; Triple jump: 1. Poorva Hitesh Sawant (Mah) 13.31m, 2. Sharvari Avinash Parule (Mah) 13.31, 3. N.V. Sheena (Ker) 13.18; Pole vault: 1. Pavithra Venkatesh (TN) 4.15m, 2. Mariya Jaison (Ker) 3.80, 3. G. Sindhushree (Kar) 3.80.
