Vithya Ramraj.
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Tamil Nadu’s Vithya Ramraj shocked Himanshi Malik and Aishwarya Mishra as she received the ladies’s 400m in a private greatest 52.40s on the Indian Grand Prix-5 athletics in Chandigarh on Sunday.
The outcomes — the occasion was run as two races, A and B — ought to give an enormous fear to the selectors, concerning the composition of the 4x400m relay staff, forward of this month’s Asian Video games in Hangzhou.
Himanshi, the quickest quartermiler within the Asiad relay staff along with her 51.76s on the current inter-State Nationals in Bhubaneswar, may solely end fifteenth general with a surprising 57.59s whereas Aishwarya was eighth (53.35). The 2 will even be operating the person 400m at Hangzhou.
Prachi (53.01) and Kiran Pahal (53.14), who don’t determine within the relay staff within the nationwide physique AFI’s Asiad listing cleared by the Sports activities Ministry not too long ago, completed third and fifth general right this moment.
Vithya additionally has not been named within the six-member relay staff however since she figures within the Asiad staff as a 400m hurdler, she may very well be used within the relay too.
By the way, Asian girls’s 100m hurdles gold medallist Jyothi Yarraji, who was making her 400m debut, clocked 53.91 whereas ending tenth.
Abha impresses
Amoj Jacob was the quickest within the males’s 400m, which was run as 5 races, whereas Asian Video games champion Jinson Johnson clocked a season-best 3:39.32s whereas taking the lads’s 1500m title. Abha Khatau, who is just not within the Asiad staff, beat the 2 — Kiran Baliyan (17.92m) and Manpreet Kaur (16.30) — who determine within the squad for Hangzhou with a 18.02m effort within the girls’s shot put.
The outcomes: Males: 100m (5 races, general positions): 1. Harjit Singh (Pun) 10.55s, 2. Amlan Borgohain (Asm) 10.57, 3. B. Siva Kumar (TN) 10.61.
400m (5 races, general): 1. Amoj Jacob (Del) 45.92s, 2. Noah Nirmal Tom (Ker) 46.55, 3. Nihal Joel (Kar) 46.76.
1500m (2 races, general): 1. Jinson Johnson (Ker) 3:39.32s, 2. Rahul (Del) 3:39.83, 3. Abhinand Sundaresan (Ker) 3:44.36.
5000m: 1. Abhishek Pal (UP) 14:24.32s, 2. Anuj Mathur (Del) 14:26.32, 3. Ravi Kumar (Del) 14:37.75.
Triple leap: 1. Sukhpreet Singh (Pun) 14.85m, 2. Swagat Behera (Odi) 13.94.
Excessive leap: Jesse Sandesh (Kar) 2.11m, 2. Swadhin Kumar Majhi (Odi) 2.06, 3. Nikhil Das (Odi) 1.95.
Javelin throw: 1. Kishore Kumar Jena (Odi) 82.53m, 2. Vikas Yadav (UP) 72.88, 3. Harish Kumar (Raj) 71.78.
Girls: 100m (2 races, general): 1. Srabani Nanda (Odi) 11.77s, 2. Nithya Gandhe (Tel) 11.85, 3. A.T. Daneswari (Kar) 11.94.
400m (2 races, general): 1. R. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 52.40s, 2. Subha Venkatesan (TN) 52.57, 3. Prachi (UP) 53.01.
10,000m: 1. Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah) 33:27.44s, 2. Seema (HP) 33:49.99, 3. Renu Sharma (Raj) 53:09.16.
Lengthy leap: 1. Sweta Arvind Thakur (5.61m), 2. Rishika Mahagaonkar (Mah) 5.28.
Shot put: 1. Abha Khatua (Mah) 18.02m, 2. Kiran Baliyan (UP) 17.92, 3. Manpreet Kaur (Har) 16.30.