Dhana Lakshmi beats Hima Das in 200m semifinals, breaks PT Usha’s meet document

S Dhanalakshmi of Tamil Nadu, who had surprised Dutee Chand within the 100m remaining, on Thursday beat one other star athlete Hima Das within the 200m semifinal heats by operating a meet document time of 23.26 seconds within the Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships on Thursday.
Her victory over Hima Das (Assam) within the semifinal heats lifted her to the highest 10 of Indian all-time checklist. Archana Suseendran (Tamil Nadu) gained her semifinal heats in 24.07 seconds to boost expectations of an fascinating remaining.
It should be acknowledged that each Hima Das (23.10) and Archana Suseendran (23.18) have sooner instances than the one blazed by Dhanalakshmi on Thursday.
Dhanalakshmi’s time bettered PT Usha’s long-standing meet document of twenty-two.80 seconds set in Chennai in 1998.
Having run 24.05 seconds when ending third within the Federation Cup right here two years in the past, Dhanalakshmi had recorded a 23.47 within the Tamil Nadu State Championships in Sivakasi on January 24, thus making it the second time she was dipping in below 23.50 seconds.

This pic captures how a lot ardour and love Dhana has for her sport. After beating Dutee in 100ms she bowed down on the observe& later kissed her spikes. I requested her why she did so. Her reply:” I thanked God & remembered my dad”. Her dad handed away whereas she was in class. pic.twitter.com/DFPjshngKR
— Andrew Amsan (@AndrewAmsan) March 16, 2021
Returning to competitors after an extended break, Swapna Barman gained the heptathlon occasion with a complete of 5636 factors, her 1.82m excessive leap mark making up for the two:29.98 within the 800m.
Mareena George (Kerala) completed second, a poor shot put efficiency denying her a shot at beating the 2018 Asian Games champion within the gruelling seven-event problem.
The front-running Krishan Kumar (Haryana) beat again a stiff problem over the past 100m by Ankesh Chaudhary (Himachal Pradesh) within the males’s 800m. Those trailing Krishan Kumar on the bell might have anticipated him to decelerate however he chugged on.
Ankesh Chaudhary stepped up the tempo and even held the lead for a quick whereas on the house straight however he couldn’t energy on.
Delhi’s Chanda gained the ladies’s 800m in a private greatest time of two minutes 2.57 seconds. It was the quickest time clocked by an Indian lady since Tintu Luka’s 2:00.58 within the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. It was a courageous start-to-finish effort by Chanda, however she completed exterior the Olympic Games qualification mark set at 1:59.50.
Lili Das (Bengal) moved up from sixth place with 150m left and timed her shift to the skin lane properly to have the ability to slip previous MR Poovamma (Karnataka) with only some strides left for the end.
It was Lili Das’ private greatest time too, the two:02.98 bettering on the two:03.46 that she clocked in Guntur in July 2017. Poovamma (2:03.35) additionally earned her private greatest.
In reality, with Rachna (Haryana), Shalu Chaudhary (Delhi) and Aishwarya Mishra (Maharashtra) additionally clocking their greatest instances, the ladies’s half-mile noticed the highest six runners attain new peaks respectively.
Talking of non-public bests, Gracena Glistus Mery (Tamil Nadu) attained one with a 1.84m effort to win the ladies’s excessive leap. The 20-year-old cleared that peak on her second try after having wanted three tries to cross the bar when it was positioned at 1.81m. Her earlier better of 1.79m was achieved within the University trials in Bhubaneshwar on March 8.
The final time an Indian lady jumped greater than Gracena Mery’s 1.84m was again in 2017 when heptathlete Swapna Barman cleared 1.87m. The woman from Kanyakumari thus turns into the most recent Indian excessive jumper to hitch the 1.80m membership.