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Guwahati (Assam) [India] June 30 (ANI): Hima Das claimed the right to boast on the final day of the 58th Interstate National Track and Field Championships by winning Friday the 400m of the race renowned female.
18 years, 51.13 seconds, Nirmala Sheoran of Haryana climbed onto the top step of the podium at the Indira Gandhi stadium.
Das, who had already won the 200m, seemed to have trouble with Sheoran who had opened a considerable lead. at the final turn. But Das, who ran in the final stretch, caught Sheoran running in the final stretch before taking the lead in the final meters of the race.
Das's time was a new personal record for her. His best time was 51.32 seconds, finishing sixth at the Commonwealth Games. She also set a new competition record, wiping out the previous mark of 51.48 seconds set by Sheoran at the 2016 edition.
Sheoran meanwhile managed 51.25 m, at 0.03 seconds of his personal best of 51.22 seconds. Uttar Pradesh's Prachi finished third with a time of 52.96 seconds
Dutee Chand, another athlete in the 400m and 400m men's Arokia Rajiv, pbaded the qualifying criteria of the Indian Federation of India. Athletics (AFI).
Chand reserved her place for the quadrennial event in the morning session herself. In the semifinal competition of her event, Odisha's 22-year-old ignited the track with a new national record of 11.29 seconds. The AFI qualifying guideline was 11.67 seconds
Chand cleared the old national mark, which was also his previous personal record of 11.30 seconds set in New Delhi last year. She was unable, however, to improve her national record in the 100m final, although her time of 11.32 seconds was more than enough to win gold. Finishing behind Chand, Manipur's K Ranga clocked 11.70 seconds while Reena George of Karnataka took the bronze with 11.77 seconds.
Arokia Rajiv finished in solid 45.78 seconds to finish under the AFI standard of 46.04 seconds. The 27-year-old Tamil Nadu defeated Kunhu Muhammad of Kerala, who finished in 46.30 seconds, and Jeevan KS of Karnataka, who won bronze with a time of 46.37 seconds
. the women's 1500m, which all recorded faster times than the Asian Games qualifying standard of 4: 16.88 seconds. PU Chitra of Kerala won the gold medal in 4: 11.55 seconds, followed closely by Monika Choudhary, 19, of Uttar Pradesh, who stopped the clock in 4: 12.44 seconds. Jhuma Khatun of Uttar Pradesh won the bronze medal with a time of 4: 12.84 seconds, while Lili Das of West Bengal finished at 4: 13.12 seconds. the triple jump of men. Arpinder Singh cleared 17m after a four-year gap by winning the event with a jump of 17.09m. Rakesh Babu from Kerala, who crossed the finish line of 16.63m to finish second. Mohamad Salahu of Tamil Nadu took the bronze with a best effort of 16.32m
Two heptathletes also managed to win a call for the Asian Games. With a qualifying time of 5,400 points, Purnima Hembram of Odisha, who won gold at Guwahati with 5898 points and Swapna Barman of West Bengal who won a silver medal with a total of 5725 points, managed to book his pbadage in Jakarta. Mow Sowmya of Andhra Pradesh had 5394 points, six points lower.
Jinson Johnson was touched by the AFI 1500 guidelines. Johnson, who broke the Indian record of 42 years in the 800m a few days ago, won the gold medal at the 1500 m with a time of 3: 45.12 seconds. Johnson was just 0.12 seconds off the Asian Games standard of 3: 45.00 seconds. He overtook Manjit Singh of Haryana in 3: 46.08 and Ajay Kumar Saroj, gold medalist of the Asian championships in 3: 46.91 seconds.
The selection committee will meet on June 30 at 5 pm at AFI headquarters at Indian Team for the 2018 Asian Games. (ANI)
This is published unedited from the stream NNA.
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