NATIONAL GAMES | Quartermiler Aishwarya produces a stunning win

Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Mishra broke her own  women’s 400m National Games record (clocking 51.12s) while winning the gold at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.

Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Mishra broke her personal girls’s 400m Nationwide Video games file (clocking 51.12s) whereas profitable the gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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What a shocker!

Quartermiler Aishwarya Mishra has thrown up many surprises prior to now. She has skipped meets after which popped up with some very quick occasions, however on Sunday she produced a season-opening stunner that nearly knocked out everyone watching her within the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games athletics competitors on the Ganga Stadium right here.

The 24-year-old from Maharashtra clocked a private greatest 51.12s — the fourth-fastest Indian time ever — whereas profitable the 400m gold by an enormous margin and breaking her personal three-year-old Nationwide Video games file by a couple of second. Vithya Ramraj, the defending champion, was greater than three seconds behind for the silver.

Tejas Ashok Shirse (408) of Maharashtra won the men’s 110m hurdles gold with a Games record at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.

Tejas Ashok Shirse (408) of Maharashtra received the boys’s 110m hurdles gold with a Video games file on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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“I couldn’t imagine that I’ve run a private greatest, I actually thought it might be one thing like 52s. I used to be like in a trance for 5 to 10 minutes,” Aishwarya, the Asian silver medallist, informed The Hindu.

“It felt like I used to be operating 300m, not in 400. I’m very comfortable about that.”

No person, not even Nationwide record-holder Hima Das (file 50.79s, Jakarta Asian Video games 2018) has began the season like this.

Bapi Hansda of Odisha won men’s 400m gold at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.

Bapi Hansda of Odisha received males’s 400m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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Are there larger issues coming because the season will get into full swing?

“I’m hoping to interrupt the Nationwide file if the whole lot goes properly,” stated Aishwarya whose earlier greatest (51.18) got here in April 2022.

Aishwarya stated she had been coaching at Dehradun for the final 20 days.

In the meantime, Odisha’s Bapi Hansda bettered his private greatest whereas profitable the boys’s 400m, whereas Maharashtra’s Tejas Shirse and Andhra Pradesh’s Asian champion Jyothi Yarraji broke their very own Video games information whereas taking the boys’s and girls’s dash hurdles gold.

Andhra Pradesh’s Jyothi Yarraji (106) broke her own  women’s 100m hurdles record on her way to gold at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.

Andhra Pradesh’s Jyothi Yarraji (106) broke her personal girls’s 100m hurdles file on her strategy to gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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“Not likely comfortable, I used to be anticipating 12.7 or 12.8…I’m in good condition, however generally issues don’t work out the way in which we wish. However I’m glad I competed right here,” stated Jyothi.

The outcomes: Males: 400m: 1. Bapi Hansda (Odi) 46.82s, 2. Vikrant Panchal (Har) 46.92, 3. T.S. Manu (Ker) 47.08. 110m hurdles: 1. Tejas Shirse (Mah) 13.65s MR, OR personal 13.71, 2015; 2. Manav Rajanarayanan (TN) 14.03, 3. Muhammed Lazan (Ker) 14.23. Excessive bounce: 1. Aadarsh Ram (TN) 2.14m, 2. Swadhin Kumar (Odi) 2.11, 3. Sudeep (Kar) 2.08. 4x100m relay: 1. Odisha (39.47s MR, OR 39.94, 2011), 2. Tamil Nadu (40.08), 3. Kerala (40.73). Decathlon: 1. N. Thowfeeq (Ker) 6915 pts, 2. Yamandeep Sharma (Raj) 6831, 3. Rohit Roman (AP) 6753.

Minutes after taking the women’s 100m hurdles silver, West Bengal’s Moumita Mondal went on to win the long  jump gold at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.

Minutes after taking the ladies’s 100m hurdles silver, West Bengal’s Moumita Mondal went on to win the lengthy bounce gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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Girls: 400m: 1. Aishwarya Mishra (Mah) 51.12s MR, OR personal 52.20; 2. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 54.43, 3. Devyaniba Zala (Guj) 54.44. 100m hurdles: 1. Jyothi Yarraji (AP) 13.10s MR, OR personal 13.22 2023; 2. Moumita Mondal (WB) 13.36, 3. Nithya Ramraj (TN) 13.60. Lengthy bounce: 1. Moumita Mondal (WB) 6.21m, 2. Sandra Babu (Ker) 6.12, 3. Deepanshi Singh (UP) 6.11. Javelin throw: 1. Jyoti Rakesh (Har) 55.55m, 2. Karishma Sanil (Kar) 55.55, 3. Ramyashree Jain (Kar) 54.85. 4x100m relay: 1. Karnataka (45.99s), 2. Kerala (4.04), 3. Telangana (47.58).

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