NO HURDLE TOO HIGH

WITH HER SILVER WIN IN ASIAN INDOORS THIS MONTH, ACE ATHLETE JYOTHI YARRAJI CONTINUES TO BREAK HER OWN RECORDS

- Shail Desai

Until January this year, Jyothi Yarraji had never competed in the 60-metre indoors hurdles event. When she stepped out on the track at the Aarhus Sprint'n'Jump in Denmark, she was excited to simply soak it all in. "It's a lot more aggressive and intense-nothing like running outdoors. Every single move counts, a small mistake and it's over," says Yarraji, 23. The inexperience hardly mattered. In the very first race, she smashed Gayathri Govindaraj's national record (8.34 seconds) from 2016 after clocking 8.20 seconds. Since then, she has progressively bettered her own mark on four other occasions.