Vithya simply misses Usha’s 39-year-old 400m hurdles natl mark

Vithya simply misses Usha’s 39-year-old 400m hurdles natl mark [ad_1]

R Vithya Ramraj of Tamil Nadu got here inside one-hundredth of a second from bettering the oldest observe nationwide report on Monday. The Hangzhou Asian Video games-bound runner from Tamil Nadu achieved a dominating victory within the girls’s 400m hurdles on the Indian Grand Prix 5 right here.

Twin sisters Vithya and Nithya Ramraj, who're a part of the Indian contingent (400m hurdles and 100m hurdles) for the upcoming Asian Video games(PTI)

Vithya clocked 55.43 seconds, simply lacking out on bettering the mark set by former observe queen PT Usha, who clocked 55.42 seconds within the 400m hurdles remaining on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics whereas narrowly lacking out on a medal. Usha’s report is 39 years previous; just one nationwide mark is older – the late Shivnath Singh’s 1978 marathon report of two:12:00, set in Jalandhar.

Vithya, 24 – her twin Nithya will compete within the 100m hurdles at Hangzhou – had additionally gone near breaking Usha’s mark on the Bhubaneswar inter-state meet in March (56.01secs). Her sensible run – she completed effectively forward of the second-placed Sinchal Kaveramma of Karnataka (58.46 secs) – follows Sunday’s 400m victory clocking 52.40 secs.

“PT Usha ma’am is an icon for a lot of athletes. It will have been nice to have my identify alongside that report. It's a very previous report arrange by a legend. Earlier than the race started, I had the report in thoughts and needed to interrupt it. However I'll enhance and break the report within the Asian Video games,” Vithya mentioned. “I used to be a bit sluggish in my first 200m, (in any other case) I might have damaged the report at this time itself. I've improved my pace. My goal can be to run under 55 seconds in China.”

Her coach Nehpal Singh Rathore mentioned: “Her progress when it comes to the timing has been very gradual. When she began with me, her timing was once 59 and at this time it was 55. She is ready effectively for the Asian Video games.” The daughters of an auto driver who grew up in modest circumstances each maintain authorities jobs now. Vithya is with the Indian Railways and Nithya is employed with the Earnings-Tax division.

No dash relay groups

One other important consequence from the two-day meet was the non-inclusion of the lads’s and girls’s 4x100m relay groups. The boys’s Staff A of Harjit Singh, Borgohain, Amiya Kumar Mallick and Siva Kumar B clocked 39.24 seconds, with Staff B (40.63) and Staff C (41.64) ending behind.

The main girls’s squad of Nithya Gandhe, Vijaya Kumari, Srabani Nanda and Jyothi Yarraji, the Staff A, clocked solely 44.66 seconds, forward of Staff B (45.36) and Staff C (47.90). The qualifying mark set by AFI was 39 seconds for males and 44 seconds for ladies.

Amlan, Priti in Video games squad

Haryana 3,000m steeplechase runner Priti Lamba, Uttar Pradesh’s Prachi (girls’s and combined 4x400m relays) and Assam sprinter Amlan Borgohain (200m) have been added to the Asian Video games athletics squad, in response to the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) choice committee. Borgohain’s season’s finest in 200m is 20.55 secs. Vikash Singh has been included instead of the injured Akshdeep Singh within the males’s 20km race stroll.

Priti gained the steeplechase clocking 9: 45.13 secs to impress the choice panel. She needed to run underneath 9:47 for choice. Parul Chaudhary is India’s main runner who bettered her nationwide report to 9:15.31 on the Budapest World Championships.

The boys’s steeplechase although can have solely Avinash Sable. Bal Kishan’s hopes of creating the reduce as a second runner had been dashed after he trailed in at seventh, clocking a pedestrian 8 minutes, 55.96 secs.

In males's 400m hurdles, Yashas P from Karnataka clocked 49.69 secs for victory, forward of Dhaval Mahesh Utekar (51.23). In girls's 800m, Delhi’s Chanda, who gained silver on the Asian Championships, beat Uttar Pradesh’s Harmilan Bains, who's on an harm comeback. Chanda clocked 2:02.68 to Bains’ 2:03.06. Each are already within the Asian Video games squad and can run the 800m. In males's shot put, the Hangzhou-bound Sahib Singh threw 18.29 m for victory. Seema Antil (UP) gained the ladies's discus with a throw of 57.90m.

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