Asian champion Jyothi Yarraji gained the ladies’s 100m hurdles race with one more spectacular time as India gained six gold medals in the Taiwan Open worldwide athletics competitors right here on Saturday.
National report holder Yarraji clocked 12.99 seconds to pocket the gold on the Taipei Municipal Stadium, forward of Japanese runners Asuka Terada (13.04 seconds) and Chisato Kiyoyama (13.10 seconds), who took the silver and bronze respectively.
The 25-year-old Yarraji had gained gold in the Asian Championships in South Korea on May 29 with a time of 12.96 seconds. Her nationwide report stands at 12.78 seconds.
Another nationwide report holder, Tejas Shirse additionally gained gold in the boys’s 110m hurdles, clocking 13.52 seconds, the second quickest time of his profession.
Local athletes Hsieh Yuan-kai (13.72 seconds) and Kuei-Ru Chen (13.75 seconds) gained the silver and bronze respectively.
The 23-year-old Shirse’s nationwide report stands 13.41 seconds.
India’s finest 4x100m relay quartet of Gurindervir Singh, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar and Amlan Borgohain gained gold, clocking 38.75 seconds, simply six-hundredth of a second outdoors of the nationwide report of 38.69 seconds set by the identical staff on the National Relay Carnival in Chandigarh earlier this yr.
But, it fell in need of the timing which might have taken the staff to Tokyo World Championships.
Fourteen international locations have already certified for the World Championships in September by way of the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China in May and solely two slots can be found. Nigeria and Netherlands are at present in the reckoning for the 2 slots with 38.20 seconds.
The Indian staff of Sudheeksha Vadluri, Sneha Sathyanarayana Shanuvalli, Abinaya Rajarajan and Nithya Gandhe gained gold in the ladies’s 4x100m relay, clocking 44.06 seconds.
The nationwide report in this occasion stands at 43.37 seconds clocked by the quartet of Archana S, Dhanalakshmi, Hima Das and Dutee Chand in 2021.
Abdulla Aboobacker and Pooja additionally gained gold in the boys’s triple soar and ladies’s 1500m respectively.
Aboobacker jumped 16.21m, properly beneath his private better of 17.19m.
Pooja, who had gained a silver in the Asian Championships in South Korea final month, clocked 4 minutes, 11.63 seconds to win the gold. She has a private better of 4:09.52 which she had clocked in 2023.
Published – June 08, 2025 03:19 am IST
