Murad Sirman, Anushka Yadav clinch 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 Tuesday.

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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 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.