Last Updated: March 20, 2023, 20:41 IST
Hima Das gained the 200m occasion in 23.79 seconds. (Pic Credit: TW/afiindia)
The meet has obtained lukewarm response with only a few prime athletes competing in it and several other occasions had simply three athletes competing
Star sprinter Hima Das gained the 200m race fairly comfortably in 23.79 seconds whereas lengthy jumper Ancy Sojan shared the limelight with a finest effort of 6.49m in the Indian Grand Prix-1 athletics occasion in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.
Assam’s Hima beat Aishwarya Kailash Mishra (24.81) of Maharashtra and VK Vismaya (24.82) of Kerala to take the ladies’s 200m gold on the Laxmibai National College of Physical Education right here.
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Sojan, in the meantime, produced a collection of leaps past 6.00m and gained with a finest effort of 6.49m, simply previous the 6.45m mark laid down because the Asian Games qualifying commonplace.
The meet although obtained lukewarm response with only a few prime athletes competing in it. Many occasions had simply three athletes competing.
Women’s excessive leap and males’s triple leap noticed simply two rivals every, males’s 400m hurdles 4, ladies’s 400m hurdles three — one disqualified later -, ladies’s shot put three, 800m ladies three and ladies’s 5000m three individuals.
Haryana’s Krishan Kumar stepped up the tempo approaching the midway mark and topped the boys’s 800m race, clocking 1:47.26, his second finest time over the gap. The Army man went previous the Asian Games qualifying commonplace of 1:49.05.
The males’s 5000m race noticed three Uttar Pradesh runners come dwelling contained in the Asian Games qualifying mark of 14:00.00.
Abhishek Pal gained in 13:51.14 — 2.15 seconds slower than his private finest — whereas Gulveer Singh clocked a private finest, bettering on the sooner time of 14:02.50 and Mohammed Nur Hasan, often known as a steeplechaser, marked his 25-lapper debut with a powerful 13:52.26.
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Odisha javelin thrower Kishore Kumar produced solely two legitimate tries however his effort of 81.05m was his profession finest, bettering on the 78.93m in successful the National Open Throws Competition in Bellary this month.
DP Manu tried onerous to dislodge him from the highest spot and had two throws over 80m, however completed second. Both went previous the Asian Games qualifying mark set by AFI.
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