Competing in her first race this season, reigning Asian champion Jyothi Yarraji won gold in the 60m hurdles event, clocking 8.04 seconds at\”Elite Indoor Meeting” in Nantes, France, which also set a national record.
Yarraji, who is just 25 years of age, rewrote her own national record of 8.12 seconds twice on Sunday, just a few hours apart.
Yarraji initially clocked 8.07 seconds in the promo rounds, and then improved it in the finals at the Saint-Petersburg Pierre-Quinon during a world athletics indoor tour bronze level meet.
However, she is now short of the qualifying mark for the World Indoor Championships to be held in Nanjing, China in March, with 8.12 seconds still being far from the qualifying mark of 7.94 seconds. It was in March 2020 when Yarraji, who has also recently received the Arjuna Award, won gold in the 60m dash at the Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran, Iran.
Additionally, she has the national record for the outdoor 100m hurdles with a time of 12.78 seconds. Besides being the reigning 100m hurdles Asian champion, she also claimed silver at the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023 with a timing of 12.91 seconds.
Apart from this,Tejas Shirse won a bronze medal in 7.68 seconds in the men’s 60m hurdles event.
The 22-year-old Shirse also established a national record briefly earlier during the CMCM Indoor Meeting in Luxembourg, clocking 7.65 seconds on January 19. Before this, the national record was 7.70 seconds, which Siddhanth Thingalaya had set in 2017.
Shirse, just 22 years old, also holds the national record for the 110m hurdles with a mark of 13.41 seconds.
