Chennai
Good begin for Indian contingent as Pooja and Siddharth Choudhary claimed gold medals with document breaking efficiency of their respective occasions on the opening day of the three-day South Asian Junior Athletics Championship that received underway right here on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Wednesday.
It was 1-2 within the ladies’s 100m dash for the Indian crew, whereas Sri Lanka gained gold and silver within the males’s 100m sprint.
Meet information had been additionally damaged in each women and men’s 100m race.
Pooja comfortably gained gold at 1.80m, which was higher than the earlier meet document of 1.75m. She made efforts to enhance her nationwide U20 excessive bounce document of 1.83m set lately in Peru on the 2024 World Athletics U20 meet, however didn’t cross the bar at 1.84m.
On his technique to gold in males’s shot put, Siddharth Choudhary hurled the iron ball to a distance of 19.19m, a meet document. Earlier document was 18.53m. Compatriot Anurag Singh Kaler gained silver with a distance of 18.91m.
Away from the sector occasions, Sri Lanka dominated the center distance occasions.
The fourth version of South Asian Junior Athletics Championship being held beneath the aegis of South Asian Athletics Federation (SAAF) will give extra alternative to athletes on the regional degree, Dr Lalit Bhanot, president of SAAF mentioned on the sidelines of the regional competitors.
“Regional competitions have its benefit as opponents should journey much less and on the identical time get good competitors near dwelling,” Dr Lalit Bhanot, president of SAAF mentioned.
“All seven SAAF international locations are competing right here in Chennai,” Bhanot added. “Extra regional occasions shall be performed in future.”
Subsequent month senior SAAF athletics meet shall be held in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The 2024 SAAF cross nation shall be held in Pakistan. “The dates of the cross nation shall be finalised shortly,” Bhanot mentioned. “There’s a plan to organise a senior SAAF competitors each two years.”
Outcomes:
Males
100m: Wijesinghe Merone (Sri Lanka) 10.41 seconds (meet document, earlier 10.61 seconds), Weeraratna Dineth (Sri Lanka) 10.49 seconds, Mruthyam Rajaram (India) 10.56 seconds.
800m: HD Shavindu Awishka (Sri Lanka) 1:49.83 seconds (meet document, earlier document 1:52.99), Vinod Kumar (India) 1:50.07 seconds, Bopanna Klappa (India) 1:50.45 seconds.
Shot put: Siddharth Choudhary (India) 19.19m (meet document, earlier document 18.53m), Anurag Singh Kaler (India) 18.91m, AW Jayavi Ranhidha (Sri Lanka) 15.62m.
Girls:
100m: Abinaya Rajarajan (India) 11.77 seconds (meet document, earlier document 11.92 seconds), V Sudheeksha (India) 11.92 seconds, S Wijetungage (Sri Lanka) 12.04 seconds.
800m: MGT Abhisheka Premasiri (Sri Lanka) 2:10.17 seconds, Laxmi Priya Kisan (India) 2:10.87 seconds, UM Sansala Himashani S (Sri Lanka) 2:12.13 seconds.
Excessive bounce: Pooja (India) 1.80m (meet document, earlier meet document 1.75m), DK Timeshi (Sri Lanka) 1.65m, VP Nethra Samadi (Sri Lanka) 1.65m.
