Nayana James.
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Regardless of rain being a difficulty, former Asian bronze medallist Nayana James got here up with a 6.43m effort as she shocked Japan’s Asian champion Sumire Hata (6.37m) and received the lengthy bounce gold on the Taiwan Athletics Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze occasion, in Taipei on Sunday.
At No. 68 Nayana, the Federation Cup champion, is approach under the younger Shaili Singh (No. 43) within the World Athletics’ Street to Paris rankings and each the Indians can be attempting their greatest to make it to the highest 32 who will qualify for subsequent month’s Olympics earlier than the qualification doorways shut on June 30.
In the meantime, Ankesh Choudhary (1:50.63s) and Somnath Chouhan (1:50.88) received the gold and silver within the males’s 800m whereas Dev Meena Kumar (5.10m) took the boys’s pole vault title. And Aditya Kumar, who had an 8.01m bounce in early April, may handle solely 7.31m for sixth place in males’s lengthy bounce.
In France, Commonwealth Video games champion Eldhose Paul received the boys’s triple bounce gold with 16.24m regardless of being distant from his greatest whereas Jesse Sandesh took the boys’s excessive bounce title with 2.18m on the Assembly de Limoges.
In Spain Animesh Kujur, who turned 21 on Sunday, received the boys’s 200m title with a wind-assisted 20.59s (+4.9) within the Metropolis of Salamanca Athletics Trophy meet at Salamanca on Saturday.
He additionally clocked the quickest 100m time by an Indian outdoors the nation whereas ending fourth within the occasion in 10.27s. And Tejas Shirse, who bettered the 110m hurdles nationwide file together with his 13.41s in Finland just lately, completed second in Salamanca in 13.57s.