Kerala’s Okay. Sneha clocked her private finest to upset worldwide R. Vithya Ramraj (Tamil Nadu) within the girls’s 200m race within the Indian Grand Prix series-2 on the LNCPE Athletics Stadium on Saturday.
Sneha had by no means run beneath 24s, and her finest effort until this race was 24.01s.
The Kerala woman, who had received the 400m bronze medal within the Federation Cup lately, didn’t have a superb begin however pulled herself in entrance at concerning the 150 metre mark and motored previous Vithya to clock 23. 59s. Vithya got here second in 23.72s whereas Angel Silviam was third (23.87s).
Vithya didn’t have any hassle successful her favoured 400m hurdles as she strode effortlessly to clinch gold in 57.45s. The girls’s 100m hurdles witnessed an in depth race wherein Tamil Nadu’s Nithya Ramraj pipped Odisha’s Pragyan Prasanti to gold, although each clocked an identical 13.27s.
Animesh hardly challenged
Animesh Kujur (Odisha) accomplished a double by successful the boys’s 100m and 200m races effortlessly. Animesh was hardly challenged in each races.
Animesh received the boys’s 100m and 200m races at a canter.
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Rajesh Ramesh made a triumphant return from damage and confirmed no indicators of rustiness as he blitzed the sector to win the boys’s 400m race (45.77s).
After lacking almost a yr attributable to damage, Ramesh dazzled in his comeback race, hitting the entrance after the primary curve and widening the lead with assured strides to complete properly forward of Jay Kumar and Rince Joseph.
The outcomes: Men: 100m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi) (10.31s), 2. Lalau Prasad Bhoi (Odi) (10.57), 3. Dondapati Mrutyamja (Odi) (10.57); 200m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi) (20.55), 2. T.Okay. Vishal (NCOE), 3. G. Ragul Kumar (TN) (21.10); 400m: 1. Rajesh Ramesh (TN) (45.77), 2. Jay Kumar (NCOE) (46.53), 3. Rince Joseph (Ker) (45.72); 800m: 1. Satyam Chauhan (Army) (1:51.87), 2. Harshdeep Singh (Army) (1:52.20), 3. Dayanidhi Munda (Odi) (1:52.80); 400m hurdles: 1. Subhas Das (JSW) (50.61), 2. Natarajan Kalainithi (NCOE) (51.51), 3. Akhil Babu (Ker) (56.99); Triple bounce: 1. Vimal Mukesh (Navy) (15.83m), 2. Boby Sabu (Police) (15.56), 3. Okay.P. Naveen (NCOE) (15.44).
Women: 100m: 1. Abhinaya Rajarajan (NCOE) (11.55s), 2. S.S. Sneha (Kar) (11.60), 3. Nithya Gandhe (Tel) (11.61); 200m: 1. Okay. Sneha (Ker) (23.59), 2. R. Vithya Ramraj (TN) (23.72), 3. Angel Silviam (NCOE) (23.87); 400m: 1. Suba Venkatesan (TN) (53.57), 2. Jisna Mathew (Ker) (53.78), 3. Soniya Baishya (Reliance) (54.22); 800m: 1. Laxmipriya Kisan (Odi) (2:09.10), 2. G.Okay. Vijayakumari (Kar) (2:09.58), 3. Priscilla Daniel (NCOE) (2:12.94); 100m hurdles: 1. Nithya Ramraj (TN) (13.27), 2. Pragyan Prasanti (Odi) (13.27), 3. Sabita Toppo (Odi) (14.20); 400m hurdles: 1. R. Vithya Ramraj (TN) (57. 45), 2. R. Anu (Ker) (58.41), 3. Deekshita (Kar) (1.00.50); Long bounce: 1. Mubassina Mohammed (Lak) (6.17m), 3. S.N. Lakshanya (NCOE) (5.75); Javelin: 1. Runjun Pegu (Asm) (42.96m), 2. Pooja (Har) (41.47m).
Published – May 17, 2025 08:43 pm IST
