Animesh finishes 4th with 20.55s as Gout Gout wins in Monaco
As for Gout Gout, he won the race in 20.10 seconds ahead of Botswana's Busang Collen Kebinatshipi (20.28 seconds) and South Africa's Naeem Jack (20.42 seconds).
Kujur was coming into the race having bettered the 100m NR on July 5 at the Dromia International Sprint and Relays Meeting at Konstantinos Baglatzis Municipal Stadium in Vari, Greece. He was high on confidence and looking to put up another impressive show on his debut at the prestigious Diamond League meet.
However, on Friday night in Monaco, he couldn't better his PB of 20.32 seconds that he had achieved during the Asian Athletics Championships last month. He even ran a time of 20.27 seconds last month during the Atleticageneve 2025 event in Switzerland which wasn't recognised as NR because of wind assistance. But he wasn't close to those timings and missed the third place by 0.13 seconds in front of a sizeable crowd.
Despite the performance in Monaco, the sprinter who trains under coach Martin Owens at the Odisha Reliance Foundation Athletics High-Performance Centre (HPC) at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar has been getting faster by leaps and bounds over the past few months.
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This year itself he had five of his best time in 200m, excluding Friday's race. He began the season by winning the gold at the national games by running 20.58 seconds in February.
Then in April, during the National Federation Senior Athletics Championships in Kochi, he achieved a timing of 20.40 seconds to break Amlan Borgohain's national record of 20.52 seconds.
In May, he continued his good how and competed at the UAE Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai Police Club Stadium where he grabbed the first place with a time of 20.45 seconds.
Then about a week later, at the Indian Grand Prix 2 in Trivandrum, he ran 20.55 seconds.
He had spoken about how he needed to work on his starts earlier in the year and it's certainly has improved over the past few months. What has also helped is his camp in Bern, Switzerland, with Coach Martins and Chris Woolley — strength and bobsleigh performance coach.
Hopefully, in the coming days, he will be able to the make the 20.16 seconds qualifying mark for the world championships in Tokyo in September, which is challenging but not impossible.
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