Animesh Kujur of Odisha in motion within the males’s 200m in the course of the sixty fifth Nationwide inter-State senior athletics championship on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Thursday, June 25, 2026.
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The unheralded Sindhushree G. wrote her identify within the file books with a shock win over Baranica Elangovan within the girls’s pole vault and certified for the Asian Video games on the second day of the Nationwide inter-State athletics meet on the Kalinga Stadium right here on Thursday.
The 25-year-old brief statured Karnataka lady — who educated for 2 weeks with a borrowed pole from a fellow male athlete, who had bought the tools meant for ladies by mistake — relied on her endurance to thrive regardless of the humid situations. She achieved the Nationwide mark of 4.25m forward of Baranica, who couldn’t enhance upon her earlier mark of 4.23m.
Sindhushree of Karnataka poses after posting a Nationwide file within the girls’s pole vault last of the sixty fifth Nationwide inter-State senior athletics championship on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Thursday, June 25, 2026.
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“I do 30 jumps in coaching. I had sufficient endurance,” stated Sindhushree, whose earlier greatest was 4.00m within the Indian Athletics Sequence in Delhi in Might.
Proudly holding a photograph of her late father, R. Ganesh, who backed her to pursue athletics earlier than his dying in 2022, Sindhushree stated, “I dedicate this to my father, who had dreamt of seeing me in India colors.”
Gowthami Jayaraman timed 2:04.17 to upset Pooja Ola and safe the ladies’s 800m crown.
Animesh Kujur (20.87) made the minimize for the continental show-piece in males’s 200m heats earlier than decreasing it to twenty.74 to win the ultimate.
Gowthami Jayaraman of Tamil Nadu gestures after qualifying for the Asian Video games within the girls’s 800m last on the sixty fifth Nationwide inter-State senior athletics championship on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Thursday, June 25, 2026.
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Harita Bhadra (23.55) and Unnathi Bollanda (23.65) additionally certified within the girls’s 200m heats earlier than taking the highest two locations within the last, clocking 23.14 and 23.40 respectively.
Tejas Shirse (13.43) set a brand new meet file in males’s 110m hurdles. He earned an Asiad berth and bettered his earlier meet file (13.54).
Mohammed P of Kerala qualifies for the Asian Video games within the males’s 800m last on the sixty fifth Nationwide inter-State senior athletics championship on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Thursday, June 25, 2026.
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The outcomes (finals): Males: 200m (Asiad Q mark 20.88): 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi) 20.74, 2. Dondapati M. Jayaram (Odi) 20.97, 3. Jishnu Prasad P.Ok. (Ker) 21.18; 800m (Asiad Q mark 1:48.80): 1. Mohammed Afsal P. (Ker) 1:48.57, 2. Krishan Kumar (Har) 1:48.82, 3. Prathamesh Deore (Mah) 1:48.89; Discus (Asiad Q mark 60.13m): 1. Kirpal Singh (Chd) 57.37m, 2. Nirbhay Singh (Har) 55.26m, 3. Arjun (Del) 54.90m; Decathlon (Asiad Q mark 7250): 1. Thowfeeq N. (Ker) 7276, 2. Kushal Mohite (Mah) 7251, 3. Jashbir Nayak (Odi) 7131; Half-marathon race stroll (Asiad Q mark 1:25:37): 1. Servin Sebastian (TN) 1:31:49, 2. Sachin Bohra (Utk) 1:32:10, 3. Ningthoukongja (Man) 1:32:24.
Ladies: 200m (Asiad Q mark 23.70): 1. Harita Bhadra (Mah) 23.14, 2. Unnathi Bollanda (Kar) 23.40, 3. Prakruthi Roopa Rao (Kar) 23.58; 800m (Asiad Q mark 2:05.21): 1. Gowthami Jayaraman (TN) 2:04.17, 2. Pooja Ola (Har) 2:04..37, 3. Lili Das (WB) 2:04.59; Shot put (Asiad Q mark 16.25m): 1. Manpreet Kaur (Har) 17.75m, Krishna Jayasankar (TN) 16.96m, 3. Srishti Vig (Del) 16.96m; Pole vault (Asiad Q mark 4.10m): 1. Sindhushree G. (Kar) 4.25m (NR, Outdated 4.23m, Baranica Elangovan, 2026), 2. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 4.20m, 3. Nitika Akare (MP) 4.10m.
Printed – June 25, 2026 09:41 pm IST