Jyothi Yarraji on the best way to the ladies’s 100m hurdles gold and meet document on the National Games in Panaji on Monday.
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Jyothi Yarraji celebrates her 100m hurdles victory and meet document on the National Games in Panaji on Monday.
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Tamil Nadu’s Vithya Ramraj who gained the ladies’s 400m gold comfortably.
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For a couple of minutes earlier than the ladies’s 400m last, Vithya Ramraj was questioning whether or not she ought to skip the massive race. The lengthy season had drained her, she was unwell too. But regardless of the discomfort the 25-year-old, who trains in Chennai, gained the gold comfortably within the thirty seventh National Games on the Bambolim Athletics Stadium and with a time that stunned her.
“I had fever, dysentery, and vomiting because the food was changing every day. I thought I shouldn’t run but my coach said I should. In fact, I was the last to come to the call room,” Vithya, the Asian Games 4x400m relay silver medallist, instructed The Hindu after her victory which got here in 52.85s.
“I didn’t think I would run this sort of time, I thought it would be something like 54s.”
Vithya left the remaining behind halfway via the house stretch and gained by margin with D. Jyothikasri (53.48) and Jisna Mathew (54.40) taking silver and bronze.
There had been no surprises as Asian champion Jyothi Yarraji, one of many massive stars right here, and Tejas Shirse — each coached by James Hillier on the Reliance Foundation — gained the ladies’s and males’s dash hurdles with out elevating a sweat and within the course of breaking the Games document too.
It was a type of uncommon days when Jyothi didn’t go below 13 seconds but it surely pulled silver medallist Nithya Ramraj to a private finest time (13.36s).
“This season is over and I just wanted to see what I could do with a free, relaxed mind. Of course, I’m not satisfied with my time, I want to get better and better. I want to be hungrier and try to get faster times since we have the Olympics next year,” stated Jyothi.
Meanwhile, Muhammed Anees discovered his kind in his season’s final lengthy soar. The 27-year-old who had been struggling to contact 8m this yr produced an spectacular 8.15m effort in his last soar to take the gold. It equalled his private finest which got here in May final yr.
The outcomes (winners solely):
Men: 400m: Okay. Avinash (TN) 46.88s; 1500m: Ritesh Ohre (MP) 3:40.93s; 110m hurdles: Tejas Shirse (Mah) 13.71s (MR, Old: Siddhanth Thingalaya’s 13.83, 2015); lengthy soar: Muhammed Anees (Ker) 8.15m; discus: Gagandeep Singh (Ser) 55.72m; 20km stroll: Suraj Panwar (Utr) 1:27.43s.
Women: 400m: Vithya Ramraj (TN) 52.85s; 1500m: Lili Das (WB) 4:15.70s; 100m hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji (AP) 13.22s (MR, Old: 13.30, 2022); shot put: Abha Khatua (Mah) 17.09m; 20km stroll: Priyanka Goswami (UP) 1:36.35s (MR, Old: Munita Prajapati’s 1:38.20, 2022).
