Athletics Indian Grand Prix I: Dutee Chand Breezes To 100m Victory As Olympic Hopefuls Go back To Festival After 15 Months | Athletics Information

Dutee Chand breezed to 100m victory within the Indian Grand Prix I athletics meet on the Netaji Subhash Nationwide Institute of Sports activities, on Thursday. Dutee, representing Odisha, received in 11.51 seconds, forward of Karnataka’s T Daneshwari (11.86) and Maharashtra’s Diandra Dudley Valladares (11.97). The 25-year-old Dutee, the nationwide file holder within the tournament with 11.22, is but to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. The qualification time for Tokyo Video games is 11.15 seconds. It was once the primary national-level observe and box tournament for seniors’ meet for the reason that Nationwide Open Athletics Championships in Ranchi in October 2019.

With the cream of Indian athletics gearing up for the AFI Federation Cup to be held right here subsequent month, the Grand Prix I confirmed that the athletes had been in excellent fettle.

Some non-public very best efforts from the athletes had been proof of the great form they’re in forward of more difficult competitions arising of their bids to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

Kerala’s Muhammad Anas Yahiya, the main 400m runner within the nation, took phase within the 100m tournament and completed a creditable 2d in 10.70 seconds, two-hundredths of a 2d at the back of Krishnakumar Satish Rane (Maharashtra).

Amiya Kumar Mallick (Odisha) received the slower B Race in 10.89 seconds to take the 3rd position total.

Arokia Rajiv (Tamil Nadu) confirmed a excellent flip of pace within the males’s 200m, successful the B race in 21.40 seconds to edge out Shashank Shinde (Chhattisgarh) because the quickest over the space on Thursday.

Shashank Shinde stopped the clock at 22.21 seconds within the A race after Noah Nirmal Tom (Kerala) pulled up injured throughout the first 25m.

Within the girls’s 200m, Anjali Devi (Haryana) ran a relaxed winner in opposition to Kaveri Laxmana Gouda Patil (Karnataka) and fellow quarter-mile specialist Subha Venkatesan (Tamil Nadu).

Whilst Anjali’s time of 23.57 seconds was once a coloration under her very best of 23.44 seconds, Kaveri Patil (24.45) and Subha Venkatesan (24.59) produced non-public very best.

Lengthy jumper Yugant Singh (Uttar Pradesh) marked his go back to aggressive athletics after 4 years with a non-public very best soar of seven.62m to edge out Haryana’s Sahil Mahabali who had taken the lead after two rounds with a 7.59m effort.

The 23-yer-old Yugant Singh’s earlier very best was once 7.58m, again within the Nationwide Open Championship in September 2015.

The ladies’s lengthy soar pageant additionally noticed a non-public very best for Marena George. The 25-year-old heptathlete had a very best effort of 6.11m on her 2d attempt to reinforce on her earlier very best of 6.01m.

MR Poovamma (Karnataka) did neatly to overcome fellow nationwide camper Kiran Pahal (Haryana) by way of greater than a 2d within the girls’s 400m. In the course of the yr 2019, she had simplest 4 sooner races than the 53.45 seconds she clocked on Thursday.

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Within the males’s race, policeman P Naganathan (Tamil Nadu) received with a time of 47.32 seconds whilst Angrej Singh’s 47.59 left Gajanand Mistry in 3rd position with a time of 47.97.

Ayyasamy Dharun, who has a non-public very best of 48.80 seconds within the 400m hurdles, warmed up for the season forward with a victory in 51.33 seconds. He held again a problem from Uttar Pradesh’s Aftab Alam, successful by way of an insignificant three-hundredths of a 2d.