Madhya Pradesh’s Ekta Pradeep Dey set the ladies’s 3,000m steeplechase nationwide document whereas additionally breaching the Asian U-20 qualifying time enroute profitable the gold medal on the concluding day of the National Junior Federation Athletics Championships on Sunday.
Dey clocked 10:10.08 seconds to breach the Asian U20 Championships qualification time of 11:30.00 and he or she additionally bettered the sooner nationwide document of 10:29.50 seconds.
A day after lacking the Asian U20 qualification time in 100m sprint, sprinter Dondapati Mrutyam Jaya of Odisha ran a scorching 21.59 seconds race to win the boys’s 200m gold and breach the Asian U20 qualification time of 21.60 seconds.
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Jaya was the one 200m sprinter to have breached the Asian U20 qualification time. On Saturday, he received gold in 100m with a time of 10.67 seconds, whereas the Asian qualification time was 10.50 seconds.
Away from the monitor, Uttar Pradesh’s javelin throwers hogged the limelight. Dipanshu Sharma claimed gold with a throw of 68.89m, whereas Rohan Yadav clinched silver with a 68.29m mark.
Uttarakhand’s Ajeet Kumar Yadav took dwelling bronze the with a throw of 66.94m. All three throwers bettered the Asian U20 qualification time of 65.49m.
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Apart from males’s 200m dash and javelin throw, athletes have been profitable in attaining Asian U20 qualification marks in different occasions, together with women and men’s 5,000m occasion.
Gujarat’s Laxita Vinod Sandilea additionally added 800m gold to her 1500m high prize on Sunday.
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