Tamil Arasu bagged a sprint double within the Indian Open athletics meet held on the Sree Kanteerava Stadium right here on Saturday.
Arasu gained a crowded 100m males’s area with a timing of 10.46s, earlier than taking the gold within the 200m. Arasu (21.25s), in Race E, clocked the identical timing as Haryana’s Shubham from Race A. Arasu was declared the winner on foundation of wind-resistance.
There was some inconvenience for athletes because the pole vault occasions have been shifted to the SAI campus. Officials acknowledged that the SAI campus was higher geared up to deal with the pole vault occasions, at the same time as the choice got here quite late within the day.
Teenager Abinaya Rajarajan impressed within the girls’s 100m, taking first place with a effective 11.55s run.
Railways’ Bhavani Yadav took the ladies’s lengthy bounce gold with a 6.31m leap within the sixth and closing try to edge out JSW’s Sandra Babu (6.24m).
Tamil Nadu’s Rajesh Ramesh (45.97s) blitzed his technique to the lads’s 400m gold, outclassing his rivals.
The outcomes (winners): Men: 100m: Tamil Arasu (Railways) 10.46s
200m: Tamil Arasu (Railways) 21.25s
400m: Rajesh Ramesh (TN) 45.97s
800m: Aman Kumar (UP) 1:48.11s
1,500m: Rahul Baloda (Raj) 3:51.58s
110m hurdles: Dhanush Adithan (TN) 14.20s
400m hurdles: Rakshith Ravindhra (NCOE, Bengaluru) 52.74s
3,000m steeplechase: Atul Poonia (Raj) 8:57.23s
Long bounce: Muhammed Anees (Reliance) 7.93m
High bounce: Sarvesh Anil (Mah) 2.21m
Triple bounce: U. Karthik (Air Force) 16.08m
Shot put: Vishwa Ayyappan (TN) 16.99m
Women: 100m: Abinaya Rajarajan (NCOE, Thiruvananthapuram) 11.55s
200m: Angel Silvia (NCOE, Bengaluru) 23.81s
400m: G.Okay. Vijayakumari (Kar) 53.34s
800m: B. Huidrom (IOCL) 2:09.30s
1,500m: Thota Sankeertana (CG) 4:27.14s
100m hurdles: C. Anjali (Ker) 13.65s
400m hurdles: R. Aswini (TN) 58.26s
3,000m steeplechase: Vandana Mori (Guj) 10:29.93s
Long bounce: Bhavani Yadav (Railways) 6.31m
Triple bounce: N.V. Sheena (Ker) 13.05m
High bounce: Okay. Gobika (TN) 1.80m
Shot put: V. Ambika (Kar) 14.14m
Pole vault: Sathya Tamilarasan (TN) 3.95m
