Indian Open | Arasu wins dash double; Abinaya quickest lady

Tamil Arasu bagged a dash double within the Indian Open athletics meet held on the Sree Kanteerava Stadium right here on Saturday.

Arasu received a crowded 100m males’s discipline with a timing of 10.46s, earlier than taking the gold within the 200m. Arasu (21.25s), in Race E, clocked the identical timing as Haryana’s Shubham from Race A. Arasu was declared the winner on foundation of wind-resistance.

There was some inconvenience for athletes because the pole vault occasions had been shifted to the SAI campus. Officials acknowledged that the SAI campus was higher geared up to deal with the pole vault occasions, at the same time as the choice got here moderately late within the day.

Teenager Abinaya Rajarajan impressed within the girls’s 100m, taking first place with a wonderful 11.55s run.

Railways’ Bhavani Yadav took the ladies’s lengthy soar gold with a 6.31m leap within the sixth and ultimate try to edge out JSW’s Sandra Babu (6.24m).

Tamil Nadu’s Rajesh Ramesh (45.97s) blitzed his approach to the boys’s 400m gold, outclassing his rivals.

The outcomes (winners): Men: 100m: Tamil Arasu (Railways) 10.46s

200m: Tamil Arasu (Railways) 21.25s

400m: Rajesh Ramesh (TN) 45.97s

800m: Aman Kumar (UP) 1:48.11s

1,500m: Rahul Baloda (Raj) 3:51.58s

110m hurdles: Dhanush Adithan (TN) 14.20s

400m hurdles: Rakshith Ravindhra (NCOE, Bengaluru) 52.74s

3,000m steeplechase: Atul Poonia (Raj) 8:57.23s

Long soar: Muhammed Anees (Reliance) 7.93m

High soar: Sarvesh Anil (Mah) 2.21m

Triple soar: U. Karthik (Air Force) 16.08m

Shot put: Vishwa Ayyappan (TN) 16.99m

Women: 100m: Abinaya Rajarajan (NCOE, Thiruvananthapuram) 11.55s

200m: Angel Silvia (NCOE, Bengaluru) 23.81s

400m: G.Okay. Vijayakumari (Kar) 53.34s

800m: B. Huidrom (IOCL) 2:09.30s

1,500m: Thota Sankeertana (CG) 4:27.14s

100m hurdles: C. Anjali (Ker) 13.65s

400m hurdles: R. Aswini (TN) 58.26s

3,000m steeplechase: Vandana Mori (Guj) 10:29.93s

Long soar: Bhavani Yadav (Railways) 6.31m

Triple soar: N.V. Sheena (Ker) 13.05m

High soar: Okay. Gobika (TN) 1.80m

Shot put: V. Ambika (Kar) 14.14m

Pole vault: Sathya Tamilarasan (TN) 3.95m