JOIN US Haryana’s Ashish Jakhar set a national record in boys hammer throw on the second day of the National Youth Athletics Championships here on Friday.
Ashish won the gold with a 72.04 metre effort, erasing the mark of 70.35 set by Haryana’s Sukhdev Singh in 2009. Only Chinese thrower Xu Wenjie (72.35) is having a better mark this season.
Tamil Nadu boy Rajesh bettered his state-mate Vivekanandan’s national record in decathlon as he garnered 6081 points.
National School Games champion Durga Deore was the third athlete to erase the national record on the day as she stopped the clock at 4:34.05 in 1500M, bettering Bengal girl Jhuma Khatun’s 10-year-old mark of 4:36.40.
Kerala quarter-milers made a clean sweep of medals in the girls 400M with promising Jisna Mathew taking the gold in 56.50 seconds.
In the boys’ race Bengal’s Chandan Bauri clocked an impressive 47.78 seconds to qualify for the Doha meet but missed the national and meet record of 47.65 seconds held in the name of Haryana’s Sandeep narrowly.
Results: Boys: 110M hurdles: Santhosh Kumar (Tamil Nadu) 14.07, 1; Debarjun Murmu (West Bengal) 14.30, 2; Pratik Pandey (Uttar Pradesh) 14.64, 3.
400M: Chandan Bauri (West Bengal) 47.78, 1; Baljeet (Haryana) 50.56, 2; Nikhil (Delhi) 50.77, 3.
1500M: Ambuj Tiwari (Uttar Pradesh) 4:06.74, 1; Yogesh Gurunath (Maharashtra) 4:06.99, 2; Sahil Thakran (Haryana) 4:07.37, 3.
Long Jump: Sonu Kumar (Rajasthan) 7.12, 1; M Sreeshankar (Kerala) 6.98, 2; Harpreet Singh (Punjab) 6.87, 3.
Pole vault: Dhirendra Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 4.30, 1; Gowtham (Tamil Nadu) 4.00, 2; Dharmendra Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 4.00, 3.
Hammer throw: Ashish Jakhar (Haryana) 72.04 (NMR; OMR- 70.35, Sukhdev Singh, Haryana, 2009), 1; Miraj Ali (Uttar Pradesh) 68.35, 2; Pradeep Kumar (Rajasthan) 65.07, 3.
Decathlon: Rajesh (Tamil Nadu) 6081 points (NMR(OMR- 5898, N Vivekanandan, Tamil Nadu, 2014), 1; Amit Singh (Delhi) 5950, 2; Amit (Haryana) 5907, 3.
Girls: 100M hurdles: Nithya (Tamil Nadu) 14.87, 1; Sushma Ram (Karnataka) 15.16, 2; Sapna Kumari (Jharkhand) 15.40, 3.
400M: Jisna Mathew (Kerala) 56.50, 1; Linet George (Kerala)
59.47, 2; K Sneha (Kerala) 60.49, 3.
1500M: Durga Pramod Deore (Maharashtra) 4:34.05, 1 (NMR; OMR-4:36.40, Jhuma Khatun, Bengal, 2005), 1; Lili Das (West Bengal) 4:37.02, 2; PM Anjana (Kerala) 5:23.10, 3.
High jump: Laimwn Narzary (Assam) 1.70 (NMR;OMR- 1.68, Arti Yadav, Haryana, 2006), 1; Anju Babu (Kerala) 1.61, 2; Athira Somaraj (Kerala) 1.58, 3.
Hammer throw: Poonam Jakhar (Haryana) 52.19 (NMR; OMR: 46.30, Rekha, Madhya Pradesh, 2014), 1; Shital (Haryana) 46.02, 2; Radhana Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 43.72, 3.
5000M walk: Bandana Patel (AFI) 26:36.15, 1; G Nisha (Kerala) 26:41.53, 2; Priyanka Patel (AFI) 26:43.87, 3.