National U20 Athletics: Murad Sirman and Anushka Yadav win gold with meet records

Gujarat’s Murad Sirman broke the meet record while winning the gold in the men’s 400m hurdles on the final day of the 23rd National Junior (U20) Federation Athletics Championships here on Tuesday. Sirman clocked 50.75 seconds to better the earlier meet record of 51.26 seconds set by Durgesh Kumar Pal in 2012. The three-day competition concluded on Tuesday at the Madan Mohan Malaviya Sports Complex.

Uttar Pradesh's promising hammer thrower Anushka Yadav also improved the meet record of 57.09m set by Tanya Chaudhary in 2022. Anushka’s gold-winning throw was 60.46m. She also holds the junior national record of 62.89m set in February at the Uttarakhand National Games.

Results: Men: 200m: J Pandiyan (Tamil Nadu) 21.33 seconds, Rushiraj S (Gujarat) 21.42 seconds, Pratik Maharana (Odisha) 21.44 seconds.

800m: Mogali Venkatram (NCOE Bengaluru) 1:49.94 seconds, Prince (Haryana)1:50.09 seconds, Vinod Kumar (Telangana) 1:50.26 seconds.

5,000m: Rahul Kumar Verma (Chhattisgarh) 14:20.11 seconds, Indrajeet Bharat (Uttar Pradesh) 14:22.82, Vivek Chand (Gujarat) 14:24.89.

400m hurdles: Murad Sirman (Gujarat) 50.75 seconds (meet record, previous record 51.26 seconds set by Durgesh Kumar Pal in 2012), Bhushan Sunil Patil (Karnataka) 52.21 seconds, Amit Kumar (NCOE Patiala) 52.37 seconds.

3,000m steeplechase: Navratan (Haryana) 9:05.75 seconds, Tanish Kumar (Delhi) 9:10.26, Aryan (Haryana) 9:17.95.

Shot put: Anurag Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 18.99m, Omkar Prasad Nand (Odisha) 18.46m, Sai Kiran A (NCOE Patiala) 18.13m.

Javelin throw: Dipesh Choudhary (Rajasthan) 72.98m, Rohan Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 70.52m, Himanshu (JSW) 69.30m.

Triple jump: S Ravi (Tamil Nadu) 15.44m, Yuvaraj K (NCOE Trivandrum) 15.34m, Shekh Zeeshan (Uttar Pradesh) 15.27m.

High jump: Basant (Rajasthan) 2.11m, Shiv Bhagwan (Haryana) 2.08m, Parthiv Vinod (Kerala) 2.04m.

Women: 200m: Dhesikha V (Tamil Nadu) 24.44 seconds, Nipam (Uttar Pradesh) 24.68 seconds, Sanjana (Delhi) 24.80 seconds.

800m: Prateeksha Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 2:07.89 seconds, Heena (Haryana) 2:08.84 seconds, Geetika Dahiya (Haryana) 2:10.24 seconds.

5,000m: Priyanka Oksa (NOCE Bengaluru) 17:07.09 seconds, Shilpa Dihora (Gujarat) 17:07.71, Sonam Parmar (Madhya Pradesh) 17:11.60.

400m hurdles: Tanu Chaudhary (NCOE Patiala) 1:01.09 seconds, Apurva Anand Naik (Karnataka) 1:01.92, Harshita Goswami (Delhi) 1:02.59.

3,000m steeplechase: Sakshi Borhade (Maharashtra) 10:50.39 seconds, Garima Yadav (Madhya Pradesh) 10:52.64, Priya Chhetri (Sikkim) 11:08.59.

Javelin throw: Bhavya Pilania (JSW) 47.65m, Poonam (JSW) 46.15m, Janvi Shekhawat (Rajasthan) 43.05m.

Hammer throw: Anushka Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 60.46m (meet record, previous mark 57.09m set by Tanya Chaudhary in 2022), Haqikat Grewal (Punjab) 53.05m, Ankita Mohapatra (Odisha) 47.40m.

Triple jump: Sadhana Ravi (Tamil Nadu) 12.75m, Paveena Rajesh (Tamil Nadu) 12.55m, Jasleen Kaur (Punjab) 12.42m.

Heptathlon: Sriteja Tholem (Telangana) 4735 points, Harshita Goswami (Delhi) 4414 points, Jasmine Mathachan (Kerala) 3907 points.

Long jump: Pavana Nagaraj (Karnataka) 6.29m, Mubassina Mohammed (NCOE Trivandrum) 6.15m, Pariksha (Haryana) 5.87m.