Murali Sreeshankar lifted his collection of high-quality performances to obtain his season better of 8.13m to win the lads’s lengthy bounce, whereas Annu Rani and Animesh Kujur rode on vociferous crowd help to declare girls’s javelin and males’s 200m titles respectively on the inaugural World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze occasion on the Kalinga Stadium right here on Sunday.
In his comeback season following a knee surgical procedure, Sreeshankar, who jumped 8.05m in Pune final month and had camped right here for a couple of week, excelled at his favorite venue. He leaped shut to the 8m mark thrice earlier than pushing himself to get his better of the season in his remaining try.
An unchallenged Annu continued her good run with renewed vitality to throw the spear to 62.01m after recording her season finest (62.59m) in Poland final week.
Annu, who started with 52.74m, achieved her profitable mark in her fourth try. She went previous 61m once more to underline her high-quality kind.
Kujur, who set the National file of 20.32 on the Asian championships in May, claimed the 200m crown with 20.77. After pulling out from the 100m heats within the morning, Kujur, specializing in 200m, regained his lead from Korean Ko Seunghwan within the final 30m within the night.
Abdulla Aboobacker, with a season better of 17.19m, leaped to 16.53m in his third try to beat compatriot Karthik Unnikrishnan by 11cm.
Vishal T.Okay. clocked 45.72 to take the lads’s 400m title. Second-placed Amoj Jacob, who timed 50.26 within the heats, achieved his season better of 45.86.
Home favourites Rohit Yadav and Sachin Yadav completed fourth and fifth with 80.35m and 79.80m respectively in javelin.
The Ramaraj sisters had disappointment in retailer. Vithya was disqualified for a false begin in 400m whereas Nithya, main comfortably in 100m hurdles, stumbled on the eighth hurdle and fell on the observe.
The outcomes (finals): Men: 100m: 1. Muhammad Azeem Bin Mohd. Fahmi (Mas) 10.35, 2. Chamod Yodhasinghe (Sri) 10.43, 3. Danish Iftikhar Muhammas Roslee (Mas) 10.50; 200m: 1. Animesh Kujur 20.77, 2. Ko Seunghwan (Kor) 20.95, 3. G.Ragul Kumar 21.17; 400m: 1. Vishal T.Okay. 45.72, 2. Amoj Jacob 45.86, 3. T.Santhosh Kumar 46.89; 800m: 1. Mohammed Afsal 1:46.60, 2. Prakash Gadade 1:47.14, 3. Krishan Kumar 1:48.00; 5000m: 1. Waberi Houssein (Dji) 14:05.36, 2. Abhishek Pal 14:10.60, 3. Sawan Barwal 14:13.41; 4x400m relay: 1. Sri Lanka 3:08.22, 2. India (Santhosh Kumar T, Vishal, Amoj Jacob, D. Choudhary) 3:08.37, 3. Iraq 3:08.74; Long bounce: 1. Murali Sreeshankar 8.13m, 2. Shahnavaz Khan 8.04m, 3. Lokesh Sathyanathan 7.85m; Triple bounce: 1. Abdulla Aboobacker 16.53m, 2. Karthik Unnikrishnan 16.42m, 3. Gailey. V 16.26m; Javelin: 1. Rumesh Tharanga (Sri) 86.50m, 2. Shivam Lohakare 80.73, 3. Sumedha Ranasinghe (Sri) 80.65m.
Women: 100m: 1. Abinaya Rajarajan 11.57, 2. S.S. Sneha 11.70, 3. Nithya Gandhe 11.70; 200m: 1. Angel Silvia 23.95, 2. Nithya Gandhe 24.11, 3. Unnathi Aiyappa 24.56; 400m: 1. G.G. Vijayakumari 53.40, 2. Devyaniba Zala 53.87, 3. Louise Evans (Gbr) 54.28; 800m: 1. Amandeep Kaur 2:04.31, 2. Huidrom Bhumeshwory 2:06.96, 3. Thota Sankeertana 2:07.17; 1500m: 1. Pooja 4:15.13, 2. Lili Das 4:17.66, 3. Amandeep Kaur 4:27.14; 100m hurdles: 1. Pragyan Prasanti Sahu 13.74, 2. Nandhini Kongan 13.80, 3. C. Anjali 14.00; Long bounce: 1. Shaili Singh 6.28m, 2. Bhavani Yadav 6.13m, 3. Sandra Babu 6.10m; Javelin: 1. Annu Rani 62.01m, 2. Hatarabag Lekamalage (Sri) 56.27m, 3. Deepika 54.20m.
