Railways’ Parul Chowdhury dominated the ladies’s 5000m by profitable a gold medal on the primary day of the sixtieth National Open Athletics Championships on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Warangal, Telangana on Wednesday.
It was a double delight for Railways when Abhishek Pal gained his first gold medal on the nationwide degree within the males’s 5000m.
In the night, Tamil Nadu’s Pavitra Venkatesh took the gold medal within the girls’s pole vault with a soar of three.90m over Maria Jason (3.80m) and Krishna Rachan (3.60m). Pavitra’s state teammate Rosie Meena Paulraj missed out on a bronze medal in countback as she took extra possibilities whereas protecting a distance of three.60m.
With 5000m Federation Cup winner Amit Jangir lacking from the beginning line, the race was at all times going to be a contest between the providers trio of Abhishek and Dharmendra, Ajay Kumar and nationwide inter-state gold medalist Karthik Kumar.
In a tactical run, Abhishek was within the chasing group however shifted gears within the dwelling stretch along with his highly effective strikes of 14 minutes 16.35 seconds to see Dharmendra, Karthik and Ajay battle for the minor spots. Ajay (14:20.98) overtook Karthik for the bronze medal, whereas Dharmendra (14:17.20 s) gained the silver.
It was the primary gold for 24-year-old Abhishek within the 5000m race at a nationwide degree competitors.
In the ladies’s 12-and-a-half lap occasion, Maharashtra’s Parul Chhaya chief Komal Chandrakant Jagdale closed and superior into the final curve. Young Komal, 22, was not caught taking a nap, however 2019 Asian Athletics Championships bronze medalist Parul touched the tape for the primary time in a time of 15:59.69. Komal gained the silver with a private finest time of 16:01.43, whereas her Maharashtra rival Sanjeevani Jadhav additionally completed third in 16:19.18. Sanjeevani, 25, is on his return from a two-year ban for a dope violation and has a private better of solely 15:51.58 in his third competitors, set at Mangalagiri, Guntur Meet in 2017.
With gold on Wednesday, Parul, who hails from Meerut in UP, has on her proper within the 5000m occasion after profitable the Indian GP-3 (15:48.49) and 4 (16:01.37), Federation Cup (16:03.23), National Signed. Inter-State Senior Athletics Meet (16:04.07), and Railway Selection Trial (16:17.93) this season.
Mohammad Ajmal, who switched from dash to quarter-mile, clocked 47.08s within the males’s 400m warmth to be the quickest of the eight qualifiers for the ultimate. Ayush Dabas (Haryana) gained the warmth with a timing of 47.24 s. In the absence of nationwide report holders Mohammad Anas, Arokia Rajeev, Noah Nirmal Tom, who’re all taking a break after competing on the Tokyo Olympics, seven of the qualifiers got here in with sub-48 second performances.
Dandi Jyothika Shree of Andhra Pradesh clocked 54.83 seconds within the girls’s 400m warmth. National degree competitors Haryana’s Kavita completed second with a time of 55.14s when Railways’ Olympian V Revathi didn’t begin, whereas World Under 20 bronze medalists in blended relay Sumi and Sonia Vaish (Railways) of Haryana superior to the finals. Failed to qualify. on Thursday.
VK Elakkiadasan (Railways) and Ok Naresh Kumar (AP) had been the quickest qualifiers for the lads’s 100m closing, profitable the heats in 10.52 and 10.54 seconds respectively. Harjit Singh (Services) and Amlan Borgohain (Assam) had been the opposite sprinters who dipped in lower than 10.60 seconds on their solution to the ultimate.
In girls’s 100m heats, Delhi’s Taranjit Kaur beat Archana Susindran (Tamil Nadu) and Himashree Roy (Railways) in 11.70s to complete second and third. In the opposite warmth, Nitya Gandhe (Telangana) completed second in 11.90 s by beating home C Kanimozhi (Railways).
On the second day on Thursday, males’s and ladies’s 20 km stroll, males’s 100 metres, girls’s excessive soar, girls’s shot put, girls’s and males’s 400 meters, males’s lengthy soar, males’s javelin throw, males’s and ladies’s 1500 There will probably be 15 occasions in meter, brief relay and decathlon. .
Result
Men’s 5000m: Abhishek Pal (Railways, 14:16.35), Dharmendra (Services, 14:17.20), Ajay Kumar (Services, 14:20.98).
Women’s 5000m: Parul Chaudhary (Railways, 15: 59.69), Komal Chandrakant Jagdale (Maharashtra, 16: 01.43), Sanjeevani Jadhav (Maharashtra, 16: 19.18)
girls pole vault Pavithra Venkatesh (TN, 3.90m), Mariya Jaison (Rlys, 3.80m), Krishna Rachan (Rls, 3.60m).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
