Star athlete Jyothi Yarraji received India’s first ever 100m hurdles medal — a bronze — on the World College Video games whereas smashing her personal nationwide report time at Chengdu on Friday. One other nationwide report holder sprinter, Amlan Borgohain additionally received India’s first ever 200m medal on the World College Video games as he picked a bronze medal with a season’s finest time of 20.55 seconds. Earlier than Friday, India has received simply 4 medals in monitor and discipline occasions on the World College Video games. In dash races, solely Dutee Chand had received a medal — a 100m gold in 2019 version — within the World College Video games earlier than Yarraji and Borgohain’s bronze medals on Friday.

The 23-year-old Yarraji clocked 12.78 seconds to complete third within the ladies’s 100m hurdles remaining, bettering her earlier nationwide mark of 12.82 seconds which she had recorded in October 2022.

Viktoria Forster of Slovakia received the gold medal, clocking 12.72, whereas Yanni Wu of China took the silver with a time of 12.76.

The 25-year-old Borgohain missed his personal nationwide report of 20.52 by a whisker.

Tsebo Isadore Matsoso of South Africa received the gold with a time of 20.36 whereas Yudai Nishi of Japan was second in 20.46.

With the 2 medals on Friday, India now has received 11 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze, positioned at fourth spot within the standings. China is on high of the medals tally, adopted by Korea and Japan.

Indian athletics’ first medal on the World College Video games got here within the 2013 version in Kazan, Russia, the place shot putter Inderjeet Singh received a silver. Inderjeet went on to win a gold within the 2015 version in Gwangju, South Korea.

Within the 2017 version in Taipei, Sanjivani Jadhav received a silver in 10,000m race earlier than Dutee Chand clinched a 100m gold in 2019 in Naples, Italy.

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