Flinging it far: Deepika improved her personal mark and set a new junior report with a 56.41m throw in girls’s javelin
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Dipanshu Sharma returned to profitable methods on the web site of his greatest efficiency this yr, enhancing his private greatest to win the lads’s javelin throw on day one of the Indian Open athletics championships right here on Sunday. Junior National report holder Deepika improved her personal mark and set a new junior report with a 56.41m throw in girls’s javelin.
The 19-year-old Dipanshu’s 76.03m throw bettered his earlier greatest — set on the earlier iteration of Indian Open on the similar venue in April this yr — by a metre. The consequence additionally helped Dipanshu return to the Under-20 top-three on the earth for the yr. It was one of the few highlights of the day, as a number of distinguished names failed to show up.
Shivam Lokhare, the most recent entrant to the 80m membership, and Kishore Kumar Jena each didn’t take part though, curiously, Jena’s former coach Samarjeet Singh Malhi was among the many individuals.
More than 900 athletes had despatched of their entries, forcing the organisers to make the Indian Open a two-day occasion, however the quantity of individuals who really turned up was a lot much less.
The 100m had 14 races with Army’s Rohit Gorkha clocking 10.49 seconds to be the shock quickest whereas Uttarakhand’s Prakhar Sharma gained the 400m in 47.24 seconds throughout 12 races.
The males’s 5000m, with 31 preliminary entries, noticed solely 11 runners full and 13, together with former champion Abhishek Pal and National Games gold medallist Sawan Barwal, not beginning. Anurag Yadav of Gujarat gained in 14:33.61.
Among the ladies, Dhanalakshmi and M.V. Jilna — each former India sprinters and coming back from doping suspension — have been the one two to go beneath 12 seconds within the 100m throughout six races, Dhanalakshmi edging forward in 11.55 seconds.
Race B noticed solely three authorized finishes, with three disqualifications and Nithya Ramraj not beginning.
Himachal Pradesh’s Manisha Kumari bettered her private greatest by greater than a second to win the 400m in 53.81 seconds
The outcomes (winners solely): Men: 100m: Rohit Gorkha (Army, 10.49s), 400m: Prakhar Sharma (Utk, 47.24s), 1500m: Rahul (Del, 3:47.47), 5000m: Anurag Yadav (Guj, 14:33.61), High Jump: Sarvesh Kushare (Mah, 2.26m), Discus Throw: Kirpal Singh (ONGC, 54.65m), Javelin Throw: Dipanshu Sharma (Reliance, 76.03m).
Women: 100m: Dhanalakshmi (TN, 11.55s), 400m: Manisha Kumari (HP, 53.81s), 1500m: Lili Das (Utk, 4:17.48), High Jump: Khyati Mathur (UP, 1.76m), Discus Throw: Seema (JSW, 55.03m), Javelin Throw: Deepika (JSW, 56.41m).
Published – July 27, 2025 08:09 pm IST