Annu dominates, units one other file at Javelin Nationals

Seasoned thrower Annu Rani lit up the Javelin Nationals in Jamshedpur with a nationwide record-breaking effort of 63.82m on her very first try. The Uttar Pradesh athlete has been India’s finest lady thrower by a distance for nearly a decade now. Sunday was the ninth time she broke the nationwide file as she improved on her earlier mark of 63.24m set final 12 months on the Federation Cup in Patiala. Annu’s subsequent three throws yielded 60.10m, 56.60m and 58.13m earlier than she handed on the final two makes an attempt.

The gulf between Annu and her rivals in Jamshedpur was fairly giant. The silver medal went to Sanjana Choudhary for 53.87m – virtually 10m behind Annu’s gold-winning try. Annu has been persistently enhancing on her personal nationwide mark since first breaching it in 2014 with 58.83m.

Annu had had a quiet season till now after the frustration on the Tokyo Olympics the place she completed 14th within the qualification spherical. Despite one other record-breaking throw, Annu’s starvation to go additional gained’t be happy. The 30-year-old thrower had labored carefully with German biomechanics skilled and Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra’s coach Klaus Bartonietz within the run-up to the Tokyo Games.

True to her historical past of launching large distance within the first spherical throw, Annu Rani set one other Indian file (ninth time) in ladies javelin with a throw of 63.82m within the 4th Indian Open Javelin Throw Competition at Jamshedpur. 📹 @afiindia pic.twitter.com/wcHKRFQGfr

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In the boys’s U-18 (700g javelin) class, Yash Saini of Haryana completed on high with a finest try of 67.42m. Saini, participating in his first national-level meet, produced a string of constant throws of 65.21, 63.24, 64.05, and 65.46m on Sunday. The 17-year-old was, nonetheless, not happy together with his outcomes as he feels he belongs within the 70m membership.

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Tokyo Olympian Annu Rani betters her personal nationwide mark with a throw of 63.82m on the 4th Indian Open Javelin throw competitors.

The Indian athlete set the earlier better of 63.24m a 12 months in the past.#Athletics | @afiindia pic.twitter.com/hspNlN43HT

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“I was hoping to throw with an international javelin. I have thrown 72m in training and would have been happy if I had matched that, but considering the slight wind blowing towards us and my niggle, I am happy that I won gold on debut. I have been training for three years, but it is only now that my coaches Arvind Kumar and Dharmender believed I was ready,” the teen mentioned.

In the boys’s U-20 class, which had solely 5 members, Vivek Kumar of Madhya Pradesh took high spot with a finest throw of 68.67m. The outcomes don’t augur nicely with the U20 World Championships simply three months away. India is but to see one other javelin thrower on the rostrum within the Junior Worlds since Chopra’s gold in 2016. The efficiency degree on the U20 males’s occasion might be gauged by the truth that the gold-winning throw was greater than 17m wanting Neeraj’s age-group nationwide file of 86.48m.

The ends in the ladies’s U-16 (500g javelin) occasion was uninspiring with the gold going to Disha of Delhi for simply 34.87m – about 15m lower than the age-group nationwide file of 49.31m set by Deepika of Haryana final 12 months. The U-16 ladies’s occasion had simply 4 entries.