Kartik, Sanjivani to lead India’s charge at Vedanta half marathon
Kartik Kumar, who is a very successful 10,000m runner, recorded his personal best (1:04:00) at the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon last year
Kartik Kumar claimed a gold with a meet record of 29:01.84 in the 10,000m run, in which three other athletes also breached the qualifying mark for the Asian Games, at the 62nd National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships here on Thursday.
Gulveer Singh (29:03.78) and Pritam Kumar (29:22.36) followed Kartik Kumar on the podium. Harman Jot Singh clocked 29:26.86 and came fourth. The qualifying mark for the Asian Games is 29:30.00 set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI)..
Olympian Bhawna Jat set up a new meet record in the women’s 20km race walk with a time of one hour, thirty-seven minutes and three seconds (1:37:03).Though she achieved a new meet record but she failed to breach the Asian Games qualifying standard of 1:35:00 in this event
Priyanka Goswami, Winner of silver medal in the 10km race walk at the Commonwealth Games clocked 1:40:33 for the second spot. Vandana came third with a time of 1:41:54.
Olympian Sandeep Kumar won the men’s 20km race walk in 1:27:12 followed by Servin S (1:28:21) and Hardeep (1:28:57). The Asian Games entry standard for men’s 20km race walkers was 1:23:30.
Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav, an Asian championships bronze medallist in 5000m, came second in the women’s 10,000m race with a timing of 34:34.10. The race was won by Seema in 34:20.01 while Poonam Dinkar Sonune came third in 34:45.42. The entry standard for the 2023 Asian Games was 32:30.24.
Anjali Devi, a 2018 national champion, meanwhile, topped the women’s 400m heats by clocking 52.89s, beating the Asian Games qualification mark by 0.07 seconds.
World U20 championships medallists Rupal Choudhary and Priya Mohan did not participate while 16-year-old Rezoana Mallick Heena, who was recently crowned the U20 Asian champion, made the cut for Friday’s 400m semi-finals with a timing of 55.20s.
The men’s 400m saw 2018 Asian Games silver medallist Muhammed Anas Yahiya top the heats in 46.48s. Arokia Rajiv, a member of Indian men’s 400m relay team which won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games, also qualified for Friday’s semi-finals with a timing of 47.45.
Jyothi Yarraji, meanwhile, topped the heats in women’s 100m with a timing of 11.65s. Veteran Srabani Nanda also qualified for Friday’s semi-finals in 11.79s.
The National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships is the final selection trial for the Asian Games scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8.
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