Ravina units meet document; TN girls, Odisha males relay groups rewrite marks

Heavy rain disrupted proceedings on the third day of the National inter-state athletics championships on the Nehru Stadium right here on Friday.

No athlete was in a position to make the lower for subsequent month’s World championships for the third successive day.

Haryana’s Ravina broke the meet document in girls’s 20km race stroll with a time of 1:35:13.49 seconds, erasing the earlier mark set by Bhawna Jat (1:37:03.00) in Bhubaneswar in 2023.

Tejas Shirse, the season’s greatest runner in males’s 110m hurdles, expectedly clinched the gold (13.60s).

He tripped on the primary hurdle however didn’t make any mistake thereafter to emerge a cushty winner, pushing R. Manav and Muhammed Lazan to the second and third positions respectively.

However, it was a far cry from Tejas’ private greatest (13.41s, present National document) and the Worlds qualification mark (13.27s).

“Even if I had run like 13.5s, I might have maybe certified by World rating factors. I’m simply unfortunate, I suppose. I can’t blame the situations because it was the identical for everybody,” he mentioned.

The Tamil Nadu girls’s 4x100m quartet consisting of R. Pavithra, Abinaya Rajarajan, M. Angel Silvia and S. Dhanalakshmi set a brand new meet document of 44.73s bettering the mark set by the State group (45.40s) final yr in Panchkula.

Odisha’s males’s 4x100m relay group comprising Sarun Payasingh, Lalu Prasad Bhoi, Animesh Kujur and Amiya Mallick additionally set a brand new meet document.

U. Karthik of Kerala received the lads’s triple bounce gold, defeating favourites Abdulla Aboobacker (second, 16.37m) and Praveen Chithravel (third, 16.35m) for a season’s better of 16.44m.

The outcomes (winners solely): Men:110m hurdles: Tejas Sirshe (Mah) 13.60s; 20km race stroll: Bilin George Anto (Ker) 1:29:35.12; 5000m: Abhishek Pal (UP) 15:00.83; triple bounce: U. Karthik (Ker) 16.44m; hammer throw: Damneet Singh (Pun) 69.25m; 4x100m relay: Odisha (Sarun Payasingh, Lalu Prasad Bhoi, Animesh Kujur, Amiya Mallick) 39.52 (NMR) (OR: TN, Chennai, 39.88s, 2022).

Women: 100m hurdles: Moumita Mondal (WB) 13.22s; 20km race stroll: Ravina (Har) 1:35:13.49 (NMR) (OR: Bhawna Jat, Bhubaneswar, 1:37:03.00, 2023); 4x100m relay: Tamil Nadu (R. Pavithra, Abinaya Rajarajan, M. Angel Silvia, S. Dhanalakshmi) 44.73s (NMR) (OR:TN, Panchkula, 45.40s, 2024).

Mixed 4x400m relay: TN (W. Nihal Joel, H. Rihan, Priya Mohan, Poovama Raju) 3:21.49s.