Asian champion 100m hurdler Jyothi Yarraji leads India’s 6-gold present in Taiwan Open

Asian champion #Jyothi Yarraji received the ladies’s 100m hurdles race with yet one more spectacular time as #India received six gold medals within the Taiwan Open worldwide athletics competitors right here on Saturday.

National document holder Yarraji clocked 12.99 seconds to pocket the gold on the #Taipei Municipal Stadium, forward of Japanese runners #Asuka Terada (13.04 seconds) and Chisato Kiyoyama (13.10 seconds), who took the silver and bronze respectively.

The 25-year-old Yarraji had received gold within the Asian Championships in #South Korea on May 29 with a time of 12.96 seconds. Her nationwide document stands at 12.78 seconds.

Another nationwide document holder, Tejas Shirse additionally received gold within the males’s 110m hurdles, clocking 13.52 seconds, the second quickest time of his profession.

Local athletes Hsieh Yuan-kai (13.72 seconds) and Kuei-Ru Chen (13.75 seconds) received the silver and bronze respectively.

The 23-year-old Shirse’s nationwide document stands 13.41 seconds.

#India’s greatest 4x100m relay quartet of Gurindervir Singh, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar and Amlan #Borgohain received gold, clocking 38.75 seconds, simply six-hundredth of a second outdoors of the nationwide document of 38.69 seconds set by the identical crew on the National Relay Carnival in Chandigarh earlier this yr.

But, it fell in need of the timing which might have taken the crew to #Tokyo World Championships.

Fourteen nations have already certified for the World Championships in September via the #World Athletics Relays in #Guangzhou, China in May and solely two slots can be found. Nigeria and Netherlands are at present within the reckoning for the 2 slots with 38.20 seconds.

The #Indian crew of Sudheeksha Vadluri, Sneha Sathyanarayana Shanuvalli, Abinaya Rajarajan and Nithya Gandhe received gold within the girls’s 4x100m relay, clocking 44.06 seconds.

The nationwide document on this occasion stands at 43.37 seconds clocked by the quartet of Archana S, Dhanalakshmi, Hima Das and Dutee Chand in 2021.

Abdulla Aboobacker and Pooja additionally received gold within the males’s triple soar and ladies’s 1500m respectively.

Aboobacker jumped 16.21m, nicely under his private better of 17.19m.

Pooja, who had received a silver within the Asian Championships in #South Korea final month, clocked 4 minutes, 11.63 seconds to win the gold. She has a private better of 4:09.52 which she had clocked in 2023.