Manikanta H H of Companies created new males’s 100m nationwide document on the opening day of Nationwide Open Athletics Championships in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Manikanta clocked 10.23 seconds to win warmth No 3 and qualify for the ultimate. He erased the earlier nationwide document of 10.26 seconds which was within the identify of Amiya Kumar Mallick of Odisha, set in 2016. “I used to be ready to erase the 100m document,” an elated Manikanta stated. “I’ve plans to additional enhance my efficiency within the closing.” After a not-so encouraging efficiency on the Nationwide Inter State Athletics Championships held in June in Bhubaneswar, Manikanta was knocked out through the semifinals, however he bounced again through the Companies Athletics Meet held just lately in Hyderabad.

His gold-winning time within the Companies’ competitors was 10.31 seconds.

“I had skilled exhausting for the departmental meet and gained gold,” stated Manikanta, who hails from district Udupi in Karnataka.

Manikanta was an all-rounder throughout his college days, however began critical dash coaching in 2018. He joined the military in 2020, which additional improved his sprinting abilities.

Within the ladies’s 100m semis, Kamaljeet Kaur of Punjab (11.47 seconds), Giridharani Ravi Kumar from Tamil Nadu (11.46 seconds) and Sneha SS of Karnataka (11.47 seconds) emerged robust contenders for the gold medal.

Maharashtra’s Tejas Shirse, representing Railways, clocked 13.72 seconds within the 110m hurdles heats to enhance the meet document of 13.77 seconds, set by Siddhanth Thingalaya in 2011.

Within the males’s discus throw, 28 athletes reported for the preliminary spherical, which was dominated by Gagandeep Singh of SSCB. His greatest throw was 52.96m whereas Manipur’s Oinam Singh was shut second with 52.82m.

Outcomes: Girls 10,000m: Seema (Himachal Pradesh) 33:26.90, Kavita Yadav (Railways) 33:35.57, Phoolan Pal (UP) 34:55.13.

Hammer throw: Anmol Kaur (Police Sports activities Management Board) 60.19m, Tanya Chaudhary (UP) 59.04m, Sarita B Singh 58.42m.

Males 10,000m: Dinesh (Maharashtra) 29:10.11, Mohan Saini (SSCB) 29:10.82, Sandeep Singh (SSCB) 29:11.21.

Pole vault Dev Meena (Madhya Pradesh) 5.05m, Shekhar Pandey (UP) 4.95m, Tanuj Kumar (Haryana) 4.85m.

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