Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Mishra broke her personal ladies’s 400m Nationwide Video games file (clocking 51.12s) whereas profitable the gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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What a shocker!
Quartermiler Aishwarya Mishra has thrown up many surprises up to now. She has skipped meets after which popped up with some very quick occasions, however on Sunday she produced a season-opening stunner that nearly knocked out everyone watching her within the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games athletics competitors on the Ganga Stadium right here.
The 24-year-old from Maharashtra clocked a private finest 51.12s — the fourth-fastest Indian time ever — whereas profitable the 400m gold by an enormous margin and breaking her personal three-year-old Nationwide Video games file by multiple second. Vithya Ramraj, the defending champion, was greater than three seconds behind for the silver.
Tejas Ashok Shirse (408) of Maharashtra received the boys’s 110m hurdles gold with a Video games file on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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“I couldn’t imagine that I’ve run a private finest, I actually thought it will be one thing like 52s. I used to be like in a trance for 5 to 10 minutes,” Aishwarya, the Asian silver medallist, informed The Hindu.
“It felt like I used to be working 300m, not in 400. I’m very completely satisfied about that.”
No person, not even Nationwide record-holder Hima Das (file 50.79s, Jakarta Asian Video games 2018) has began the season like this.
Bapi Hansda of Odisha received males’s 400m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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Are there larger issues coming because the season will get into full swing?
“I’m hoping to interrupt the Nationwide file if every thing goes properly,” mentioned Aishwarya whose earlier finest (51.18) got here in April 2022.
Aishwarya mentioned she had been coaching at Dehradun for the final 20 days.
In the meantime, Odisha’s Bapi Hansda bettered his private finest whereas profitable the boys’s 400m, whereas Maharashtra’s Tejas Shirse and Andhra Pradesh’s Asian champion Jyothi Yarraji broke their very own Video games data whereas taking the boys’s and girls’s dash hurdles gold.
Andhra Pradesh’s Jyothi Yarraji (106) broke her personal ladies’s 100m hurdles file on her technique to gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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“Probably not completely satisfied, I used to be anticipating 12.7 or 12.8…I’m in fine condition, however generally issues don’t work out the best way we wish. However I’m glad I competed right here,” mentioned Jyothi.
The outcomes: Males: 400m: 1. Bapi Hansda (Odi) 46.82s, 2. Vikrant Panchal (Har) 46.92, 3. T.S. Manu (Ker) 47.08. 110m hurdles: 1. Tejas Shirse (Mah) 13.65s MR, OR personal 13.71, 2015; 2. Manav Rajanarayanan (TN) 14.03, 3. Muhammed Lazan (Ker) 14.23. Excessive bounce: 1. Aadarsh Ram (TN) 2.14m, 2. Swadhin Kumar (Odi) 2.11, 3. Sudeep (Kar) 2.08. 4x100m relay: 1. Odisha (39.47s MR, OR 39.94, 2011), 2. Tamil Nadu (40.08), 3. Kerala (40.73). Decathlon: 1. N. Thowfeeq (Ker) 6915 pts, 2. Yamandeep Sharma (Raj) 6831, 3. Rohit Roman (AP) 6753.
Minutes after taking the ladies’s 100m hurdles silver, West Bengal’s Moumita Mondal went on to win the lengthy bounce gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Sunday, 09 February 2025.
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Girls: 400m: 1. Aishwarya Mishra (Mah) 51.12s MR, OR personal 52.20; 2. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 54.43, 3. Devyaniba Zala (Guj) 54.44. 100m hurdles: 1. Jyothi Yarraji (AP) 13.10s MR, OR personal 13.22 2023; 2. Moumita Mondal (WB) 13.36, 3. Nithya Ramraj (TN) 13.60. Lengthy bounce: 1. Moumita Mondal (WB) 6.21m, 2. Sandra Babu (Ker) 6.12, 3. Deepanshi Singh (UP) 6.11. Javelin throw: 1. Jyoti Rakesh (Har) 55.55m, 2. Karishma Sanil (Kar) 55.55, 3. Ramyashree Jain (Kar) 54.85. 4x100m relay: 1. Karnataka (45.99s), 2. Kerala (4.04), 3. Telangana (47.58).
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