Ankita Dhyani breaks women's 2000m steeplechase national record in Israel
Ankita Dhyani
broke the women's 2000m steeplechase
national record
while winning gold at the
Grand Slam Jerusalem
athletics meet in Israel.
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The 23-year-old Ankita clocked 6-minute 13.92 seconds to better the previous national mark of 6:14.38, held by Parul Chaudhary.
With the ranking points she earned from the win on Thursday, Ankita boosted her chances of qualifying for 3000m steeplechase for the
World Championships
in Tokyo next month through world ranking quota.
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"Yes, under the rules, the performance of
2000m steeplechase
will be counted for world ranking purposes in 3000m steeplechase for the World Championships in Tokyo. It is an existing rule,"
Indian athletics
head coach Radhakrishnan Nair told PTI.
The Grand Slam Jerusalem is a
World Athletics
Continental Tour silver level (Category B) event.
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Israel's Adva Cohen and Denmark's Juliane Hvid finished second and third after clocking 6:15.20 and 6:17.80 respectively.
Ankita secured a silver medal in the 3000m steeplechase race at the World University Games last month, where she clocked a personal best time of 9:31.99.
She took part in the women's 5000m at the 2024 Olympics. She won a 5000m bronze medal at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok.
She also won a gold each in the women's 5000m and 3000m steeplechase events at the
Uttarakhand National Games
earlier this year.
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