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Business Standard
3 days ago
- Sport
- Business Standard
Sachin, Parul clinch silver as India adds 5 medals at Asian Championships
Parul Chaudhary clinched her second silver and javelin thrower Sachin Yadav also finished second while sprinter Animesh Kujur shattered the national record en route a bronze show as India's medal rush continued on the final day of the 26th Asian Athletics Championships here on Saturday. Vithya Ramraj and Pooja also won bronze medals in their respective events. Chaudhary, who had earlier bagged silver in the 3000m steeplechase, clocked 15:15.33s to finish second in the women's 5000m. In the men's javelin throw event, rising star Yadav produced a personal best performance as he sent his spear to 85.16m to finish behind reigning Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, who fetched the gold with a best effort of 86.40. Hailing from a farmer's family at Khekra village near Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, the 25-year old had a previous personal best of 84.39m. Fellow Indian Yashvir Singh also impressed with a personal best of 82.57m for a fifth-place finish. India's first medal of the day came through Kujur, who claimed a rare medal in the men's 200m. He produced a standout performance, setting a new national record of 20.32 seconds. The 21-year-old bettered his previous mark of 20.40s, set earlier this year at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition. Japan's Towa Uzawa won gold with a time of 20.12s, while Saudi Arabia's Abdulaziz Abdu I Atafi took silver in 20.31s. Asian Games medallist Vithya sailed smoothly over the 400m hurdles to finish on the third step of the podium. The 26-year-old Tamil Nadu athlete clocked 56.46s to finish on the podium. China's Mo Jiadie clinched gold in 55.31s, edging out Bahrain's Oluwakemi Adekoya, who finished second in 55.32s. Anu Raghavan, the other Indian in the race, was placed seventh with 57.46s. Pooja grabbed India's third bronze of the day as she finished the women's 800m with a personal best of 2:01.89s. In the women's 200m final, Jyoti Yarraji finished fifth with a time of 23.47s, while Nithya Gandhe came seventh in 23.90s. Yarraji had won gold in the women's 100m hurdles earlier in the week.
NDTV
3 days ago
- Sport
- NDTV
Indian Javelin Star Produces 85.16m Throw, Loses Gold To Arshad Nadeem By...
Rising Indian javelin thrower Sachin Yadav delivered a stellar performance to clinch the silver medal, while sprinter Animesh Kujur and hurdler Vithya Ramraj added a bronze each to the country's tally at the 26th Asian Athletics Championships on Saturday. The 25-year old Yadav produced a personal best performance as he sent his spear to 85.16m to finish behind reigning Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, who fetched the gold with a best effort of 86.40. Hailing from a farmer's family at Khekra village near Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, Yadav had a previous personal best of 84.39m. Yashvir Singh also impressed, achieving a personal best of 82.57m to finish fifth. Earlier, Kujur opened India's account on the final day of competitions with a bronze medal in the men's 200m final. Kujur produced a standout performance, setting a new national record of 20.32 seconds. The 21-year-old bettered his previous mark of 20.40s, set earlier this year at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition. Japan's Towa Uzawa won gold with a time of 20.12s, while Saudi Arabia's Abdulaziz Abdu I Atafi took silver in 20.31s. Asian Games medallist Vithya sailed smoothly over the 400m hurdles to finish on the podium. The 26-year-old Tamil Nadu athlete clocked 56.46s to finish on the podium. China's Mo Jiadie clinched gold in 55.31s, edging out Bahrain's Oluwakemi Adekoya, who finished second in 55.32s. Anu Raghavan, the other Indian in the race, was placed seventh with 57.46s. In the women's 200m final, Jyoti Yarraji finished fifth with a time of 23.47s, while Nithya Gandhe came seventh in 23.90s. Yarraji had won gold in the women's 100m hurdles earlier in the week.
The Hindu
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Asian Athletics Championships: Sachin Yadav shines with silver, Kujur and Ramraj add bronze
Rising Indian javelin thrower Sachin Yadav delivered a stellar performance to clinch the silver medal, while sprinter Animesh Kujur and hurdler Vithya Ramraj added a bronze each to the country's tally at the 26th Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi on Saturday (May 31, 2025). The 25-year old Yadav produced a personal best performance as he sent his spear to 85.16m to finish behind reigning Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, who fetched the gold with a best effort of 86.40. Hailing from a farmer's family at Khekra village near Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, Yadav had a previous personal best of 84.39m. Yashvir Singh also impressed, achieving a personal best of 82.57m to finish fifth. Earlier, Kujur opened India's account on the final day of competitions with a bronze medal in the men's 200m final. Kujur produced a standout performance, setting a new national record of 20.32 seconds. The 21-year-old bettered his previous mark of 20.40s, set earlier this year at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition. Japan's Towa Uzawa won gold with a time of 20.12s, while Saudi Arabia's Abdulaziz Abdu I Atafi took silver in 20.31s. Asian Games medallist Vithya sailed smoothly over the 400m hurdles to finish on the podium. The 26-year-old Tamil Nadu athlete clocked 56.46s to finish on the podium. China's Mo Jiadie clinched gold in 55.31s, edging out Bahrain's Oluwakemi Adekoya, who finished second in 55.32s. Anu Raghavan, the other Indian in the race, was placed seventh with 57.46s. In the women's 200m final, Jyoti Yarraji finished fifth with a time of 23.47s, while Nithya Gandhe came seventh in 23.90s. Yarraji had won gold in the women's 100m hurdles earlier in the week.
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Faster, fitter Jyothi conquers conditions to court Asian glory
New Delhi: Jyothi Yarraji is not known for explosive starts. The 25-year-old typically begins steady and surges in the latter half of the race. It's not the most conventional rhythm, but it has served India's top hurdler well. Sticking to her familiar strategy at the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, on Thursday, Yarraji clinched gold in the 100m hurdles with a time of 12.96s, breaking the Championship record held by China's Yun Feng (12.97s) since 1998. Japan's Yumi Tanaka and China's Wu Yanni, both clocking 13.07s, followed. Yarraji was the only athlete to dip below 13 seconds in the cold and wet conditions. Starting in Lane 7, she was slow off the blocks and remained in the bottom two until the fifth hurdle. Then, her trademark acceleration kicked in. She breezed past her competitors, surged into the lead at the eighth hurdle, and crossed the finish line in top gear. Her roar of celebration soon followed. 'I don't usually shout in happiness. I've shouted in sadness before, but this celebration was a first,' she said. Her vocal celebration reflected the significance of the moment for Yarraji, who is coming off a hamstring strain that disrupted her training last month. She had entered the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition in Kochi—a mandatory qualifier for Asian Championships—far from peak fitness, yet won with a time of 13.23s. The Athletics Federation of India's qualifying mark was 13.26s. Once qualification was secured, Yarraji under the Reliance Foundation's Athletics Director James Hillier, began training for her title defence at the Asian Championships. While track time was limited due to her injury, she focused on strength work in the gym, becoming stronger and leaner. But her race readiness remained uncertain. 'She's faster, fitter, and leaner than before. Her body fat percentage is at its lowest ever. She's hit some PBs in the gym, but I wouldn't say she's completely race-fit. This competition came about three weeks too early for us,' said Hillier. Besides her recent lack of sub-13s runs—she hadn't clocked one since May 2024—Yarraji also had to contend with the conditions in Gumi. A torrential downpour delayed the final by nearly two hours, forcing her to warm up in a makeshift storage room beside the track. 'We had a horrendous downpour. Just as Jyothi was about to warm up, the heavens opened. A huge thunderstorm hit, temperatures dropped, and the competition was postponed for two hours. She ended up doing warm-ups in a storage room. It was absolutely crazy,' Hillier recalled. Standing in a cramped 10-meter area with barely enough room to walk, Yarraji began visualising the race. While some competitors grew frustrated, she stayed calm and focused, drawing on her experience. 'I used the delay to visualise—how I'd start off the blocks, how I'd go over the hurdles, everything. I knew if I stayed with the girls after the first few hurdles, I'd have a strong chance of winning. I focused deeply, and didn't let my mind wander,' she said. Though she didn't have the World Championships qualifying mark of 12.73s in mind, she felt capable of running 12.70s, which would have been a personal best (PB) and a direct ticket to September's Worlds in Tokyo. Her current PB stands at 12.78s. 'Had it not been for the conditions, I would have run 12.70s. That's how good I felt,' she said. Hillier, however, insisted that they weren't chasing time. 'I just wanted her to run the race. It was freezing, there was a headwind, and the track was a bit slow. The focus was on winning, not on chasing time.' Yarraji is also set to compete in the 200m at this meet. Afterward, she and Hillier will head to Taipei for the Taiwan Athletics Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze event. Once back in India, they'll concentrate on technical training, particularly to improve her early race acceleration.
New Indian Express
25-04-2025
- Sport
- New Indian Express
With an eye on Worlds, AFI names Asian Athletics Championships
CHENNAI: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Friday has named a 59-member team for the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, a day after the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition got over in Kochi. In the absence of the Olympic and world championships medallist Neeraj Chopra, Commonwealth Games medallist Avinash Sable, long distance runners Gulveer Singh and Parul Chaudhary, quartermilers Vithya Ramraj and Rupal Chaudhary, hurdler Jyothi Yarraji, triple jump national record holder Praveen Chithravel and Abdulla Aboobacker will lead India's challenge. Focus will also be on the 4x400m teams, especially the women's that had been unsteady for a while after injuries and a slew of doping cases. At the last edition of the Asian athletics meet, India had finished with 27 medals that included six gold. AFI selection committee chairperson Adille Sumariwalla said that the focus is on the World Athletics Championships. He said that the Asian athletics will be a stepping stone towards the mega event of the year. 'This is a stepping stone only,' he told this daily. 'Now it is time for us to focus on the world championships. An athlete cannot peak multiple times like at the Asian Championships and again later at the worlds. It is an ongoing process. We had put up the qualifying standards (Asian meet) well in advance (December 31, last year). We are strictly following those qualifying standards.' The AFI would take some solace in some good performances in the lead up to the Asian meet. There were quite a few meet and national records during the four-day competition that concluded on Thursday. However, Sumariwalla has a different take on this. 'There will always be good and not so good performances. We should learn from whatever has happened on the ground. If it is good we should analyse why it is good or whether it is (peaking) too early or too late. If it is bad we should find out why it is not good and what is required to be good to perform well at the world championships.' The former AFI president and current spokesperson also said that the relay teams, especially the 4x400m women's, will be decided closer to the World Championships. The AFI president Bahadur Singh Sagoo said that the AFI was not sending a 4x400m women's team for the World Athletics Relays. The AFI has named a six-member women's 4x400 relay team for the Asian meet but according to the selection committee chief, the six names are not automatic choices for the world championships. Sumariwalla said that the World Athletics meet is still about five months away and they would finalise the names days before the event. 'We have selected athletes for the camp (in Thiruvananthapuram) based on their performances and we keep adding and deleting names based on their performances,' he said. 'We keep inviting people and it's their prerogative if they want to join or not. But we are clear that they have to be part of the camp to run in relays. It is a team event and if they don't want to train together then we don't want them. We are not the USA that has the sprint power. But still they lose 4x100m relays because of lack of coordination. So we have to train together. There is a bonding. Important thing is that the team should be staying together.' This is also to avoid issues like we had with Nirmala Sheoran, Sumariwalla said. 'If she had run in the relay we could have lost medals at the Asian Games in Jakarta,' he said. Nirmala was banned for four year after the Athletics Integrity Unit tested her in 2018 and nullified all the results between 2016 and 2018. India lost a medal won at the 2017 Asian athletics meet. She lost her Asian titles and India had lost a relay medal as well. 'The reason we have told them to participate in two events is to ensure that there are no issues later on. There have been instances when athletes used to get cleaned up before the final trials. They would be hiding and not run the whole year and then come and compete in the final trials and by the time they reach the event timings change. We have seen this time and again. We are trying our best to avoid those things." He said even though he would not like to predict he expected the athletes to perform better than last time. 'Each one of them should perform their best,' he said. India's squad: Men: Animesh Kujur (200m), Anu Kumar and Krishan Kumar (800m), Yoonus Shah (1500m), Avinash Sable (3000m steeplechase), Gulveer Singh and Abhishek Pal (5000m), Gulveer Singh and Sawan Barwal (10,000m), Praveen Chithravel and Abdulla Aboobacker (triple jump), Sarvesh Kushare (high jump), Sachin Yadav and Yasvir Singh (javelin throw), Samardeep Singh (shot put), Tejaswin Shankar (decathlon), Servin Sebastian and Amit (20km race walk). 4x100m relay: Pranav Pramod Gurav, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidar, Amlan Borgohain, Tamilarasu S, Ragul Kumar G, Gurvindervir Singh. 4x400m relay: Vishal TK, Jay Kumar, Manu TS, Rince Joseph, Tushar Manna, Santhosh Kumar, Dharamveer Choudhary, Mohit Kumar. Women: Nithya Gandhe (200m), Rupal Chaudhary and Vithya Ramraj (400m), Twinkle Chaudhary and Pooja (800m), Lili Das and Pooja (1500m), Parul Chaudhary and Ankita (3000m steeplechase), Sanjivani Jadav and Parul Chaudhary (5000m), Sanjivani Jadhav and Seema (10,000m), Jyothi Yarraji (100m hurdles), R Vithya Ramraj and Anu R (400m), Shaili Singh and Ancy Sojan (long jump), Pooja (high jump), Seema (discus throw), Annu Rani (javelin throw), Agsara Nandini (heptathlon). 4x100m relay: Nithya Gandhe, Abinaya Rajarajan, Sneha SS, Srabani Nanda, Daneshwari AT, V Sudheeksha. 4x400m relay: Rupal Chaudhary, Sneha K, Subha Venkatesan, Jisna Mathew, Kunja Rajitha, Sarndramol Sabu.
