Ok. Sneha of Ernakulam who received the ladies’s 400m on the Kerala State senior athletics at Thenipalam, Malappuram, on Thursday.
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A couple of years in the past, when she was on the Usha Faculty of Athletics, there have been expectations that Ok. Sneha would change into a really gifted quartermiler, one who comply with in her academy-mate Jisna Mathew’s footsteps.
However Sneha’s monitor profession bumped into quite a lot of hassle. 4 years in the past, she left Usha’s academy after which took a 12 months’s break. She started coaching beneath coach P.P. Paul after that. On Thursday, the 24-year-old clocked a private greatest 54.31s (in semifinal) on her technique to the 400m gold on the Tony Daniel memorial 67th Kerala State senior athletics championships on the C.H. Muhammed Koya Stadium right here.
In the meantime, V.Ok. Vismaya, who had anchored India to the 4x400m girls’s relay gold on the final Asian Video games in Jakarta, didn’t stay as much as expectations ending third in her semifinal in 56.21s. The worldwide later skipped the ultimate.
Ernakulam’s P.S. Prabhavathi who received the ladies’s lengthy bounce gold on the State senior athletics championships at Thenipalam.
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Sneha, who topped the semifinal which featured Vismaya, took the lead after the final nook within the ultimate. However she appeared to choke a bit within the ending phases however nonetheless managed to stave off a robust problem from Linet George to seize the gold.
“I wish to attempt to get into the Indian staff, 53s is the usual time to get in, I wish to strive that within the Open Nationals. I’m assured of operating 53 this 12 months, I need to try this,” Sneha informed The Hindu after the victory.
A couple of minutes after that Ernakulam’s P.S. Prabhavathi, the under-23 Nationwide champion, jolted the 2018 Asian Video games silver medallist V. Neena to take the ladies’s lengthy bounce gold. Neena, third within the nation’s all-time lengthy bounce listing together with her 6.66m which got here in 2016 (season-best 6.14m, June), mentioned she had not absolutely recovered from a latest damage.
5 meet information, together with one within the males’s lengthy bounce the place 22-year-old Ok.M. Sreekanth improved his private greatest by almost 40cm to the touch 7.78m, have been despatched on the championships’ opening day.
The outcomes (gold medallists solely): 100m: Muhammed Shan (Mlp) 10,61s. 400m: P. Abiram (Pkd) 47.69s. 1500m: Ok. Anand Krishna (Ekm) 3:48.44s MR, OR Muhammed Afsal’s 3:52.44. 10,000m: R.S. Manoj (Ekm) 32:38.13s. 100m hurdles: Muhammed Lazan (Koz) 14.45s. 3000m steeple chase: M. Manoj Kumar (Ekm) 9:22.07s. 4X100m relay: Palakkad (41.91s). Lengthy bounce: Ok.M. Sreekanth (Ekm) 7.78m NR, OR Muhammed Anees 7.74, 2019. Pole vault: M. Akshay (Ekm) 4.70m. Discus throw: Ok.C. Sidharth (Ksd) 49.40m MR, OR Alex Thankachan’s 47.53, 2022. Shot put: S. Sreesanth (Klm) 13.76m. Javelin throw: Arun Child (Tvm) 69.09m.
Girls: 100m: A.P. Shilbi (Tvm) 11.84s. 400m: Ok. Sneha (Ekm) 54.83s. 1500m: Irin Thomas (Wyd) 4:43.93s. 10,000m: M.S. Sruthi (Ktm) 37:03.50s MR, OR Shelgy Joseph’s 38:10.00, 1990. 4X100m relay: Kottayam (Parvathy Prasad, G. Reshma, Sophiya Sunny, Akhina Babu) 53.36s. 100m hurdles: Aparna Roy (Koz) 14.26s. 3000m steeple chase: Ok. Swetha (Ekm) 11:21.17s. Lengthy bounce: P.S. Prabhavathi (Ekm) 5.97m. Pole vault: Krishna Rachan (Wyd) 3.90m. Discus throw: C.P. Thoufeera (Ksd) 39.78m MR, OR personal 39.72, 2021. Shot put: C.P. Thoufeera (Ksd) 11.64m. Javelin throw: P. Ashika (Ekm) 37.17m.
Blended: 4x400m m relay: Thrissur (3:52.67s).