Haryana hammer thrower Ashish Jakhar, Tamil Nadu decathlete Rajesh and Maharashtra’s 1500m runner Durga Pramod Deore (Mah) 4:34.05s bettered national records in the 12th National youth athletics championship at Bambolim, Goa, on Friday, a day when four athletes qualified for the forthcoming youth Worlds in Colombia.
Ashish, whose 72.04m carried him to the world’s top ten in this year’s youth list, was the lone national record breaker today to qualify for the youth Worlds.
The other qualifiers for the youth Worlds were the boys and girls 400m runners – West Bengal’s Chandan Bauri, Kerala’s Jisna Mathew – and Tamil Nadu’s sprint hurdler Santhosh Kumar.
While Ashish improved his personal best stunningly by nearly five metres (previous best 67.09, November 2014), the under-16 junior National champion Jisna, who is coached by P.T. Usha at her academy in Kozhikode, was a comfortable winner as Kerala swept all the three medals in the girls 400m.
The results:
Boys: 400m: 1. Chandan Bauri (WB) 47.78s, 2. Baljeet (Har) 50.56s, 3. Nikhil (Del) 50.77s.
1500m: 1. Ambuj Tiwari (UP) 4:06.74s, 2. Yogesh Gurunath (Mah) 4:06.99, 3. Sahil Thakran (Har) 4:07.37.
110m hurdles: 1. Santhosh Kumar (TN) 14.07s, 2. Debarjun Murmu (WB) 14.30, 3. Pratik Pandey (UP) 14.64.
Pole vault: 1. Dhirendra Kumar (UP) 4.30m, 2. Gowtham (TN) 4.00, 3. Dharmendra Kumar (UP) 4.00.
Long Jump: 1. Sonu Kumar (Raj) 7.12m, 2. M. Sreeshankar (Ker) 6.98, 3. Harpreet Singh (Punjab) 6.87.
Hammer: 1. Ashish Jakhar (Har) 72.04m, NR , OR 70.35, 2. Miraj Ali (UP) 68.35, 3. Pradeep Kumar (Raj) 65.07.
Decathlon: 1. Rajesh (TN) 6081 pts, NR , OR 5898, 2. Amit Singh (Del) 5950, 3. Amit (Har) 5907.
Girls: 400m: 1. Jisna Mathew (Ker) 56.50s, 2. Linet George (Ker) 59.47, 3. K. Sneha (Ker) 60.49. 1500m: 1. Durga Pramod Deore (Mah) 4:34.05s NR , OR 4:36.40; 2. Lili Das (WB) 4:37.02, 3. P.M. Anjana (Ker) 5:23.10.
100m hurdles: 1. Nithya (Tamil Nadu) 14.87s, 2. Sushma Ram (Kar) 15.16, 3. Sapna Kumari (Jhk) 15.40s.
High jump: 1. Laimwn Narzary (Asm) 1.70m, MR , OR 1.68m; 2. Anju Babu (Ker) 1.61, 3. Athira Somaraj (Ker) 1.58. Hammer throw: 1. Poonam Jakhar (Har) 52.19m MR , OR 46.30; 2. Shital (Har) 46.02, 3. Radhana Yadav (UP) 43.72. 5000m race walk: 1. Bandana Patel (AFI) 26:36.15s, 2. G. Nisha (Ker) 26:41.53, 3. Priyanka Patel (AFI) 26:43.87.
