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GUWAHATI: Best Indian sprinter Dutee Chand broke her own national record in the women's 100m on the fourth and final day of the 58th National Senior Interstate Athletics Championships to impose herself as a medal. at the next Asian Games.

Disee, 22, representing Odisha, slammed 11.29 seconds to cut a hundredth of a second from her previous national record of 11.30. She burned the track in the semi-final of the competition in good conditions in the morning. session at the athletics stadium Indira Gandhi.

She has already pbaded the Asian Games qualifying time of 11.67 when she recorded 11.42 in one inning on Friday. She has also qualified for the Asian Games in 200m even though the 100m dash is her main event.

The last women's 100m race will take place later in the evening.

Friday's timing placed Dutee at the top of the Asian list and she would be one of the gold medal contenders at the Asian Games. The 2010 and 2014 Asian Games gold medalists were 11.33 and 11.48, respectively.

Four Indian women – Roshan Mistry (1951, silver), Christine Brown (1954, bronze), PT Usha (1982, silver) and (1986, silver) and Rachita Mistry (1998, medal at the Asian Games No Indian women did not win a gold medal in the 100 meters of the Asian Games.

"The conditions were good and before the race, my coach (N Ramesh) and I decided to go for the national record, I am very happy but I will try to digest better", said Dutee.

"In fact, my target in this championship is to run 11:20 and I hope to get there, there are still eight weeks before the Asian Games and my target in Jakarta has to run below 11:20," said Duté who is currently training at the Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad.

Asked what contributed to this improved timing, she said, "I do a lot of basic workout exercises to build and strengthen my body, spend more time in the gym, I also do endurance like repeat 300m, 350m in a day, then I repeat also 60m, 70m, the main purpose is to add more strength. "

His coach, N Ramesh, said that additional sessions were added to Dutee's workout regimen, while the physio and mbadeur that were given him helped him in his performance.

"We added an extra hour between 11am and 12pm to do some basic training, swimming, etc., to strengthen her body. The physiotherapist and mbadeur given for her also helped to strengthen For that, I thanked SAI and Gopichand. "

Dutee, who had won a "gender case" against the International Federation at the Court of Arbitration for Sports, had run 11.56 at the Federation Cup in March and was not selected in the Indian team for the Commonwealth Games.