Nayana James.
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Regardless of rain being a problem, former Asian bronze medallist Nayana James got here up with a 6.43m effort as she shocked Japan’s Asian champion Sumire Hata (6.37m) and gained the lengthy bounce gold on the Taiwan Athletics Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze occasion, in Taipei on Sunday.
At No. 68 Nayana, the Federation Cup champion, is method under the younger Shaili Singh (No. 43) within the World Athletics’ Highway to Paris rankings and each the Indians might be making an attempt their finest to make it to the highest 32 who will qualify for subsequent month’s Olympics earlier than the qualification doorways shut on June 30.
In the meantime, Ankesh Choudhary (1:50.63s) and Somnath Chouhan (1:50.88) gained the gold and silver within the males’s 800m whereas Dev Meena Kumar (5.10m) took the lads’s pole vault title. And Aditya Kumar, who had an 8.01m bounce in early April, might handle solely 7.31m for sixth place in males’s lengthy bounce.
In France, Commonwealth Video games champion Eldhose Paul gained the lads’s triple bounce gold with 16.24m regardless of being far-off from his finest whereas Jesse Sandesh took the lads’s excessive bounce title with 2.18m on the Assembly de Limoges.
In Spain Animesh Kujur, who turned 21 on Sunday, gained the lads’s 200m title with a wind-assisted 20.59s (+4.9) within the Metropolis of Salamanca Athletics Trophy meet at Salamanca on Saturday.
He additionally clocked the quickest 100m time by an Indian exterior the nation whereas ending fourth within the occasion in 10.27s. And Tejas Shirse, who bettered the 110m hurdles nationwide report along with his 13.41s in Finland just lately, completed second in Salamanca in 13.57s.
Printed – June 02, 2024 09:00 pm IST
