Odisha’s Animesh Kujur, centre, wins the boys’s 100m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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Can’t be!
That’s what everybody who had been watching the boys’s 100m last from the trackside appeared to say because the outcomes got here up on the large display just a few seconds later. It confirmed Providers’ Manikanta Hoblidhar, the nationwide report holder with 10.23s, because the quickest man of the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games on the Ganga Stadium right here on Saturday. Manikanta even posed for the posse of keen cameramen.
Nevertheless it was Odisha’s Animesh Kujur who appeared to have completed first. There had been some confusion someplace and a few 20 minutes later, throughout the medal ceremony, issues turned clear and Kujur returned carrying the valuable gold medal.
Was he shocked when Manikanta was proven because the winner first?
Sudeshna Shivankar, centre, of Maharashtra claims the ladies’s 100m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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“No, I knew I got here first. I didn’t have any doubt. My expectation was to interrupt the nationwide report, however it’s okay.,” mentioned Odisha’s Kujur who clocked 10.28s which equalled Amlan Borgohain’s Video games report set in 2022. Borgohain took the bronze, whereas Manikanta went with no medal, taking the fifth spot in 10.46.
Kujur, not a powerful starter, made up properly in the direction of the end.
“My coach instructed me, don’t panic even in case you don’t get an excellent begin, you might have an excellent top-end. Simply consider that you simply’re going to do good,” mentioned Kujur who’s coached by Englishman Martin Owens on the Reliance Basis’s Odisha centre.
He has some massive targets for this 12 months and that features breaking the 100m nationwide report although the 200m is his essential occasion.
Sawan Barwal of Himachal Pradesh gained gold and created a Nationwide Video games report within the males’s 10000m on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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“Sure, within the senior Federation Cup… simply wait and watch,” he mentioned, elevating hopes throughout.
Kujur mentioned his coach was engaged on his begin.
“He’s doing one thing, one thing…I additionally don’t know what’s happening in his thoughts.”
In the meantime, Maharashtra’s Sudeshna Shivankar, final 12 months’s Khelo India College Video games champion, stunned high names like R. Giridharani and Srabani Nanda to emerge because the quickest lady right here in 11.76s.
Tamil Nadu’s Pavithra Venkatesh and Baranica Elangovan made it a pleasant one-two in girls’s pole-vault the place nationwide record-holder Rosy Meena Paulraj completed tenth.
Pavithra Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu gained gold in girls’s pole vault on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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Earlier, within the morning, Himachal Pradesh’s Sawan Barwal broke Nationwide report holder Gulveer Singh’s Nationwide Video games report within the mens’ 10,000m clocking 28:49.93s.
“I might have executed loads higher, however there was nobody to push me,” mentioned the 26-year-old.
The outcomes: Males: 100m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi) 10.28s EMR, 2. Pranav Gurav (Mah) 10.32, 3. Amlan Borgohain (Asm) 10.43. 1500m: 1. Yoonus Shah (Ser) 3:46.48s, 2. Ritesh Ohre (MP) 3:46.64, 3. Ram Singh (Utk) 3:50.24. 10,000m: 1. Sawan Barwal (HP) 28:49.93s, 2. Kiran Matre (Mah) 29:04.76, 3. Vinod Singh (MP) 29:43.60. Lengthy leap: 1. Shahnavaz Khan (UP) 7.70m, 2. V. Sriram (TN) 7.59, 3. C.V. Anurag (Ker) 7.56. Discus throw: 1 Gagandeep Singh (Ser) 55.01m, 2. Nirbhay Singh (Har) 54.07, 3. Alex P. Thankachan (Ker) 52.79.
Girls: 100m: 1. Sudeshna Shivankar (Mah) 11.76s, 2. Nithya Gandhe (Tel) 11.79, 3. R. Giridharani (TN) 11.88. 1500m: 1. Okay.M. Chanda (Del) 4:17.74s, 2. Okay.M. Deeksha (MP) 4:21.92, 3. Amandeep Kaur (Pun) 4:22.75. 10,000m: 1. Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah) 33:33.47s, 2. Ankita (Utk) 34:31.03, 3. Soniya (Utk) 35:45.19. Pole vault: 1. Pavithra Venkatesh (TN) 3.95m, 2. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 3.90, 3. Mariya Jaison (Ker) 3.90. Discus throw: Seema (Har) 52.70s, 2. Bhavana Yadav (Del) 51.82, 3. Amanat Kamboj (Pun) 49.94.
Revealed – February 08, 2025 08:07 pm IST