Siddharth Choudhary, males’s shot put gold winner.
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India’s Siddharth Choudhary and Pooja created new meet data within the males’s shot put and ladies’s excessive leap occasions respectively within the South Asian junior athletics meet right here on Wednesday. Within the final occasion of the day, Abinaya Rajarajan of India clinched the gold within the ladies’s 100m in a document time of 11.77s.
Pooja, ladies’s excessive leap champion.
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Ok. Keerthivasan
Pooja comfortably gained gold at 1.80m, which was higher than the earlier meet document of 1.75m. She tried to enhance on her Nationwide u-20 excessive leap document of 1.83m set not too long ago in Peru on the 2024 World u-20 meet however did not cross the bar at 1.84m.
Earlier, Siddharth hurled the iron ball to a document distance of 19.19m. His compatriot Anurag Singh Kaler gained silver with a distance of 18.91m. Sri Lanka dominated the center distance occasions, profitable gold in males’s and ladies’s 800m occasions.
The outcomes: Males: 100m: 1. Wijesinghe Merone (Sri Lanka) 10.41s (NMR) (OR: A. Yesudas, 10.61, Ranchi, 2013), 2. Weeraratna Dineth (SL) 10.49, 3. Mruthyam Rajaram (IND) 10.56; 800m: 1. H.D. Shavindu Awishka (SL) 1:49.83s (NMR) (OR: P. Verma, 1:52.99, Colombo, 2007), 2. Vinod Kumar (IND) 1:50.07, 3. Bopanna Klappa (IND) 1:50.45; Shot put: 1. Siddharth Choudhary (IND) 19.19m (NMR) (OR: A. Bhalothia, 18.53, 2018, Colombo), 2. Anurag Singh Kaler (IND) 18.91, 3. A. W. Jayavi Ranhidha (SL) 15.62.
Girls: 100m: 1. Abinaya Rajarajan (IND) 11.77s (NMR) (OR: A. Silva, 11.92, 2018, Colombo), 2. V. Sudheeksha (IND) 11.92, 3. S. Wijetungage (SL) 12.04; 800m: 1. M.G.T. Abhisheka Premasiri (SL) 2:10.17, 2. Laxmi Priya Kisan (IND) 2:10.87, 3. U.M. Sansala Himashani (SL) 2:12.13; Excessive leap: 1. Pooja (IND) 1.80m (NMR) (OR: D. Ranasinghe, 1.75m, 2007, Colombo), 2. D.Ok. Timeshi (SL) 1.65m, 3. V.P. Nethra Samadi (SL) 1.65m.
Revealed – September 11, 2024 10:00 pm IST
