Aditya hit the sand at 7.74m to seal the lengthy bounce gold within the Indian Open athletics meet on the Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Tuesday.
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Taking part in his first occasion for the reason that 2024 Paris Olympics, a lot was anticipated from lengthy jumper Jeswin Aldrin. The 23-year-old, nevertheless, didn’t ship, ending seventh after pulling a hamstring, within the Indian Open athletics meet on the Nehru Stadium right here on Tuesday.
Aditya Kumar Singh, additionally 23, from Varanasi shocked the sector to bag the gold with a leap of seven.74m. Jeswin, the Nationwide report holder, jumped 7.36m in his first try, fouled the subsequent three, didn’t try his fifth earlier than fouling in his sixth and closing run.
“I used to be wanting ahead to the occasion however throughout warm-up, I developed the ache,” Jeswin stated.
In one other main upset of the day, Yashvir Singh of Railways gained the boys’s javelin throw occasion with a 77.49m effort, thereby placing to shade the trouble of Kishore Jena, the 2022 Asian Video games silver medallist. Kishore completed second with a 75.99m.
Collaborating within the males’s shot put, regardless of a again situation, favorite Tejinderpal Singh Toor gained, because of his first throw of 17.61m. He fouled the subsequent two earlier than deciding to not go forward with the subsequent three throws.
In males’s 400m, favorite Amoj Jacob pulled out halfway within the closing citing an hamstring situation whereas Md. Anas, the Nationwide report holder, ran the heats however selected to not run the ultimate.
The outcomes (winners solely):
Males: 100m: Race-A: Gitson (TN) 1073s; B: Paras (HP) 10.75; C: Pranav Pramod (Rlys) 10.38s.
110m hurdles: Race-A: Rathish Pandi (Reliance) 14.36s; B: R. Manav (Rlys) 13.94s.
200m: Race-A: Dondapati Mrutyam MA (Odi) 21.67s; B: Animesh Kujur (Odi) 21.14s.
400m hurdles: Race-A: Subhas Das (JSW) 50.96s; B: Jabir Madari Palliyal (Navy) 51.85.
800m: Race-A: Satyam Chauhan (Military) 1:51.64s; B: Anu Kumar (Utr) 1:48.95s.
400m: A: Kapil (Military) 47.58s; B: Aswin Krishnan (TN) 47.45s; 1500m: Yoonus Shah (JSW) 3:45.11s;
Lengthy bounce: Aditya Kumar Singh (UP) 7.74m; excessive bounce: Shaik Mohiddin (AP) 2.08m; shot put: Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Pun) 17.61m; javelin: Yashvir Singh (Rlys) 77.49m
Girls: 100m hurdles: Nithya Ramraj (TN) 13.32s; 400m hurdles: Vithya Ramraj (TN) 56.90s; 100m: Race-A: Kiruthika (TN) 11.87s; B: Charu Shoukeen (Del) 12.30s; C: Sneha SS (Kar) 11.79s; 800m: Twinkle Chaudhary (Pun) 2:09.39s; Pole vault: E. Baranica (TN) 3.90m; lengthy bounce: Shaili Singh (UP) 6.45m; Triple bounce: Ok. N. Bhumika (Kar) 12.05m; javelin: Shakshi Sharma (UP) 46.79m; 1500m: Lili Das (Utr) 4:13.74s; Shot put: Poorna Subodh Raora (Mah) 16.27m.
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