Animesh, David clinch gold medals in UAE Athletics GP

Animesh Kujur received the 200m with ease. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR

National record-holder Animesh Kujur received the 200m comfortably whereas P. David Solomon took the lads’s lengthy leap title within the UAE Athletics Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze-level occasion, in Dubai on Friday.

Animesh’s time, 20.45s, is the quickest by an Indian in a global meet whereas lengthy jumper David, the latest Federation Nationals champion, had a finest of seven.78m.

India additionally received the lads’s 4x100m relay clocking 38.76s, however there was a little bit of a disappointment within the 100m with National record-holder Gurindervir Singh (10.41s) and Manikanta Hoblidhar (10.52) ending eighth and twelfth. Gurvinder holds the nationwide file with 10.20s whereas Manikanta is the third quickest in India’s all-time record with 10.22.

Asian silver medallist Shaili Singh (6.43m) took the ladies’s lengthy leap silver whereas Asian Games silver medallist Ancy Sojan (6.33) received the bronze.

Select outcomes (occasions which characteristic Indians): Men:100m (placings after finals 1 & 2): 1. Ali Al Balooshi (Oma) 10.19s, 8. Gurindervir Singh (Ind) 10.41, 10. T.A. Tamilarasu (Ind) 10.44, 12. Manikanta Hoblidhar (Ind) 10.52; 200m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Ind) 20.45s, 5. Amlan Borgohain (Ind) 21.08; 400m (finals 1 & 2 mixed): 1. Suleiman Abdirahman (UAE) 45.66s, 2. Mohamed Sinan (Ind) 46.67, 14. Juswin George Varghese (Ind) 52.20; lengthy leap: 1. David Solomon (Ind) 7.78m; 4x100m relay: 1. India (38.76s), 3. India (39.30).

Women: 400m (placings after finals 1 & 2): 1. Aminat Kamarudeen (UAE) 53.44s, 12. Rachel Elizabeth Sunil (Ind) 1:08.48, 3. Shriya Sarin (Ind) 1:08.66; lengthy leap: 1. Esraa Owis (Egy) 6.67m, 2. Shaili Singh (Ind) 6.44, 3. Ancy Sojan (Ind) 6.33, 4. Moumita Mondal (Ind) 6.32, 7. Deepanshi Singh & Kusuma Ravada (each Ind) 6.03. triple leap: 1. Andreea Talos (Rou) 13.33m, 3. Poorva Sawant (Ind) 13.09, 5. Niharika Vashisht (Ind) 13.05; hammer: 1. Bianca Ghelber (Rou) 72.18m, 6 Harshita Sehrawat (Ind) 61.39.

Published – May 10, 2025 08:17 pm IST

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