National Open Athletics: Praveen, Amlan show their value in soar, dash occasions
Rising stars Praveen Chithravel of Tamil Nadu in males’s triple soar and Amlan Borgohain of Assam in males’s 200m hogged the limelight with career-best performances on the fifth and remaining day of the sixtieth National Open Athletics Championships at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Hanumakonda, Warangal in Telangana on Sunday.
In the ladies’s hammer throw occasion, 2014 Incheon Asiad medallist Manju Bala Singh of Rajasthan had 5 throws over the 60m-mark with a career-best of 64.42m on her third try to erase the meet report of 61.67m set by Hardeep Kaur in 2002. The 32-year-old additionally produced the second-best throw by an Indian girl behind Sarita Romit Singh’s nationwide report of 65.25m. Manju additionally improved on her private better of 62.74m she achieved in Lucknow in 2014.
Meanwhile, Sarita got here up with a 59.58m effort on her final attempt to edge Railways’ team-mate Jyoti Jakhar to 3rd place.
Amlan clocked a sensational time of 20.75 seconds, the second-fastest by an Indian, to win the boys’s 200m remaining in fashion. Only Muhammed Anas Yahia (20.63s), Dharambir Singh (20.66s), Arokia Rajiv (20.66s) and now retired and Olympian Anil Kumar (20.73s) have run a quicker time within the historical past of Indian athletics.
It was the 23-year-old’s first 200m race on the nationwide stage.
Amlan who has been dwelling in Hyderabad since 2014, took off the blocks effectively and sped forward of the pack taking lead quickly after the 100m-mark and leaving his rivals gasping within the final 10m to complete first in a brand new meet report of 20.75 seconds.
At the identical time on soar pit, Praveen solely 20 and a 2018 Buenos Youth Olympic Games bronze medallist, opened with a 16.88m virtually killed the competitors earlier than Abdulla Aboobacker (16.84m) and Karthik Unnikrishnan (16.80m) of Services made it an intense one. For the three medallists, it was their private bests.
Praveen is now third behind nationwide champions Renjit Maheswary (17.30m) and Arpinder Singh (17.17m).
“What an outstanding performance,” Maheswary informed indianexpress.com after following the efficiency. “Bring them together, train them under a coach, they will bring anything for the country. I’ll bet,” exulted the 2016 Rio Olympian and nationwide holder.
2018 Jakarta Asian Games gold medallist Arpinder Singh, who’s competing for the primary time after recovering from damage, was sixth with a finest effort of 15.91m.
In the morning, Kartik Kumar of Services and Sanjivani Jadhav of Maharashtra claimed gold within the 10,000m occasions on the ultimate day.
Archana Suseendran of Tamil Nadu claimed the ladies’s 200m dash gold and prevented Taranjeet Kaur of Delhi from racing away with the dash double. The Delhi teenager fought onerous to bridge the hole and ended up with a maiden sub-24-second effort, ending simply six-hundredths of a second behind Archana.
RESULTS
MEN
200m: Amlan Borgohain (Assam, 20.75s NMR OMR 20.92s set by S Arunjith in Jamshedpur, 2007), Balakumar Nitin (TN, 21.06s), Nalabothu Shamugha Srinivas (AP, 21.12s).
10,000m: Kartik Kumar (Services, 29 min 42.63s), Dharmender (Ser, 29:49.56), Shrawan Kumar Beniwal (Haryana, 30:01.87s.
Hammer throw: Damneet Singh (Punjab, 65.65m), Bajinder Singh (Pun, 63.29s), Sukhdev Singh (Rlys, 63.18s).
Triple soar: Praveen Chithravel (TN, 16.88m), Abdulla Aboobacker (Ser, 16.84m), Karthik Unnikrishnan (Ser, 16.80).
4x400m relay: Haryana (Pankaj, Sachin, Ayush Dabas, Vikrant Panchal) 3:087.86; 2. Services 3:09.13; 3. Punjab 3:11.29.
WOMEN
200m: Archana Suseendran (TN, 23.58s), Taranjeet Kaur (Delhi, 23.64s), Chandra Lekha (Rlys, 24.35s).
10,000m: Sanjivani Jadhav (Mahrashtra, 34:20.03s), Kavita Yadav (Rlys, 35:57.46s), Jyoti (UP, 36:37.90s).
Hammer throw: Manju Bala Singh (Raj, 64.42m NMR, OMR 61.67m set by Hardeep Kaur, in Delhi, 2002); Sarita Romit Singh (Rlys, 59.58m), Jyoti Rana (Rlys, 58.36m).
Discus throw: Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (Punjab, 54.49m), Nidhi Rani (Rlys, 50.87m), Gurveer Kaur (Punjab, 48.66m).4x400m relay: Haryana (Nancy, Nisha, Nanhi, Kavita, 3:42.82s); All India Police (3:43.01s), Delhi 3:43.13.
