Deeksha breaks 1500m Nationwide mark in LA meet

Deeksha...running to a new mark.

Deeksha…working to a brand new mark.
| Photograph Credit score: Ritu Raj Konwar

Asian Video games champion Annu Rani opened her season with an honest 60.68m effort whereas ending sixth within the Hylo Javelin Throw Assembly in Offenburg, Germany, on Sunday.

The Nationwide record-holder with 63.82m, Annu’s greatest got here in her final throw. Adriana Vilagos, the under-20 World champion from Serbia, received the gold with 63.58m.

Earlier, on Saturday, Okay.M. Deeksha bettered her private greatest by greater than a second as she broke Harmilan Bains’ three-year-old 1500m Nationwide report on the Sound Operating Monitor Fest in Los Angeles.

The 25-year-old who shocked Harmilan (Nationwide report 4:05.39) and received the Inter-State Nationwide gold in Bhubaneswar final yr, clocked 4:04.78s (earlier greatest 4:06.07s) whereas ending third in Los Angeles. American Kristlin Gear, the US Nationwide 3000m steeplechase champion, received in a private greatest 4:03.65s.

Sable’s slim miss

In the meantime Avinash Sable, the Asian Video games and Commonwealth Video games silver medallist, narrowly missed breaking his Nationwide report whereas ending second within the 5000m in 13:20.37s (Nationwide report 13:19.37) whereas Gulveer Singh (13:31.65) was fifth.

Within the ladies’s 5000m, Asian Video games champion Parul Chaudhary was fifth in 15:10.69s and Ankita (15:28.08) was tenth. Olympic champion Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands received the ladies’s 5000m gold in 14:58.83s.

Kartik Kumar was second within the males’s 10,000m in 28:07.66s and within the ladies’s 10,000m Seema (32:45.61s) and Sanjivani Jadhav (32:50.12) completed twelfth and thirteenth respectively.

Within the ladies’s 3000m steeplechase, Priti clocked 9:53.40s for the eleventh spot.

High two spots

In Slovenia, Sahil Silwal and Vikrant Malik who’ve each thrown over 80m previously, took the highest two spots in males’s javelin throw with 77.81m and 75.28m respectively within the Matica Sustarsica in Patrika Cvetana meet at Kranj. And Dhanvir Singh was fourth within the males’s shot put with 17.75m.