Harmilan Kaur Bains
Punjab’s Harmilan Kaur Bains broke a 19-year-old record to win the 1500m title in the 100m race of the 60th National Open Athletics Championships here on Thursday, while Delhi’s teenager Taranjit Kaur broke all odds and ran the fastest. .
Twenty-year-old Harmilan traveled home in 4:05.39 seconds to erase the mark set by Sunita Rani at 4:06.03 at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan and also surpassed OP Jaisha’s meet record of 4:11.83 (Delhi 2006). broke.
Delhi’s KM Chanda (4:18.24) dodged Harmilan Bains until the Punjab sprinter rang the bell to win by a huge margin.
Undefeated in eight national level races since January 2020, Harmilan has shown rapid progress, improving from 4:14.68 in the Khelo India University Games in Bhubaneswar last year to 4:08.70 and 4:08.27 in the Federation Cup (March 16) Has happened. Grand Prix 4 (June 21) in Patiala respectively.
On Thursday, she closed it with the national emblem. Taranjeet made headlines two years later by winning the 100m with a personal best time of 11.50 when she fell down from a car and broke a collar bone.
Taranjeet knocked out two-tenths of a second from his previous best of 11.70 to win the Federation Cup Junior (U20) title in Bhopal on January 25 this year.
Naresh Kumar won the men’s sprint in 10.30 seconds, the second fastest time by an Indian in the 100 meters this year after Gurinderveer Singh’s 10.27 seconds in Patiala on 26 June.
This ranked the 23-year-old from Guntur one of the five fastest runners in Indian history, bettering Anil Kumar’s set of 10.37 seconds in 2001, the meet record.
The race produced personal bests for Assam’s Amlan Borgohain and Harjit Singh (Services), with times of 10.34 seconds for both, a photo finish that saw them run six-thousandths of a second to secure the silver medal for the former. separated from
Despite a couple of false starts by Services’ KS Pranav and Satnam Singh, all three put on excellent runs. The men’s 1500m race witnessed a glitch as little-known Parvez Khan (Haryana) handed two-time Asian Athletics Championships medalist Ajay Kumar Saroj (Railways) his first defeat at the national level since August 20, 2019 .
Yaman Deep Sharma (Rajasthan) emerged as the best all-rounder with a 55-point win over Usaid Khan (Services), riding on the 182-point lead he earned on the first day through the long jump, high jump and 400m on Wednesday. Of.
Asian Games gold medalist heptathlete Swapna Barman (Railways) won the women’s high jump, while Sahil Silwal (Haryana) showed he could be a future javelin thrower as he finished the men’s event with a final throw of 77.79m. Had won Which saw him catapult him to the top of the podium from fourth place.
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