Jyothi Yarraji Wins Gold in Women's 100m for Federation Cups Senior Athletics Championships as well as Qualifies for Asian Championships

Jyothi Yarraji gets gold for 100m hurdles in women's category at Federation Cups Senior Athletics Championships and cracks the Asian Championships qualifier.

Written by: Arjita Gupta

Edited by: Krutarth Ghosalkar

Last Updated: 2023-05-18 07:34:16

Jyothi Yarraji won gold in the women's 100m hurdles while beating her own best on the favorable day of the Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships. She met the record with ease and earned laurels from the panel. Yarraji clocked 13.18 seconds in the preliminary round. She is from Andhra Pradesh. But she made a drastic improvement by winning gold for creating a record of 12.89 seconds. Jyothi has been practicing for this moment for some time now and now she has finally achieved the feat.

She met the qualification standard for the Asian Championships within the mark of 13.63 seconds. It is the Athletics Federation of India that sets these standards. Asian Championships will happen from July 12 to 16 at Bangkok. The second runner-up was R Nithya Ramraj from Tamil Nadu clocking in 13.44, while the third position went to Sapna Kumari who clicked on 13.58 seconds. She is from Jharkhand.

The gold for men's 100m hurdles as.expected was bagged by Tejas Ashok Shirse from Maharashtra for clocking in 13.72 seconds. What we can look forward to is Twinkle from Punjab as she will compete in the final of 800m race for women. She clocked 2 minutes in her preliminary round, and breached the qualifying mark (2:05.74) for Asian Championships within 5.39 seconds.

Ankesh Chaudhary from Himachal Pradesh in the men's category clocked 1:49.73 in the preliminary round. And 1:49.93 was clocked by Anu Kumar from Uttarakhand. A blackout resulted as thunderstorm and rain at the end of the day affected the Birsa Munda Stadium. We can anticipate the competition to get interesting with so many young athletes enhancing their performances and beating past records, while entering national and international tournament events.