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Tamilarasu, left, crosses the end line first within the males’s 100m on the sixty fourth National Inter-State senior athletics championships in Chennai on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU
Things did go in keeping with script, however with a couple of surprises — with new meet data posted in males’s pole vault, males’s 100m and ladies’s 5000m.
Tamil Nadu’s G. Reegan and M. Gowtham shared the honours in pole vault after each cleared 5.20m of their first try. They determined to not go for one more try and determined to share first place. It was an awesome second for each because it was their private finest.
Reegan, left, and Gowtham after agreeing to share the pole vault crown on the sixty fourth National Inter-State senior athletics championships in Chennai on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU
While Gowtham had scaled 5.15m and completed second behind Dev Meena within the Federation Cup in Kochi in April this 12 months, Reegan had completed third with a bounce of 5.10m.
In the lads’s 100m subject that consisted of seniors akin to Manikanta and Amlan Borgohain, Tamilarasu, aged 23, confirmed he’s one for the long run. His medical end in a time of 10.22s, erased his earlier better of 10.42s set within the Kochi Federation Cup this 12 months. “I used to be assured earlier than the race. I wished to go for the National document, however couldn’t,” mentioned Tamilarasu, an worker of Railways, Chennai.
Dhanalakshmi, centre, wins the ladies’s 100m on the sixty fourth National Inter-State senior athletics championships in Chennai on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU
Earlier, S. Dhanalakshmi, coming again to the home circuit after serving a three-year ban for doping, received the ladies’s 100m in a time of 11.36s. “I used to be nervous earlier than the race as this was my first home occasion. But mentally, I used to be sturdy and was wanting to show my price,” she mentioned.
The outcomes (winners solely): Men: 100m: S. Tamilarasu (TN) 10.22 (NMR) (OR: Gurindervir Singh, Patiala, 10.27, 2021); 10000m: Abhishek Pal (UP) 30:56.64; pole vault: G. Reegan & M. Gowtham (TN) 5.20m every (NMR) (OR: Siva, Bhubaneswar, 5.11, 2023).
Women: 100m: S. Dhanalakshmi (TN) 11.36s; 5000m: Seema (HP) 15:42.64 (NMR) (OR: L. Suriya, Guntur, 15:46.92, 2017); hammer throw: Tanya Chaudhary (UP) 63.91m; triple bounce: Sandra Babu (Ker) 13.20s.
Published – August 20, 2025 09:50 pm IST
