Hurdler Rohan Kamble books semifinal berth in U-20 world athletics championships

The second day of the World Athletics U20 Championships at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday went with out a medal for Indians.
Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal, in males’s shot put, was the one Indian to determine in six finals held. In the boys’s shot put, Amandeep, 19, had just one authorized throw and completed final and twelfth among the many finalists with a distance of 17.08m in his third try.
In the qualification on Wednesday, Amandeep entered the ultimate spherical with a throw of 17.92m and has a private better of 19.15m.
The night session was delayed by about two hours because of rain.
Before that Rohan Gautam Kamble certified for the boys’s 400m hurdles semifinals clocking 55.00 seconds for a fourth-place end within the fifth heats. His teammate Hardeep Kumar was final amongst 33 opponents with a poor time of 1:12.80s after he stumbled earlier than the hurdle on the house stretch. Actually Hardeep, 18, acquired off effectively from the blocks solely to crash into the penultimate hurdle and it took him time to get better and to finish the occasion.
Anu Kumar got here near qualifying for the boys’s 800m semifinals as he got here fourth within the first warmth with a timing of 1:50.26 seconds. Top three attending to qualify, Anu fell brief because the final and sixteenth qualifier Paul Anselmini of France had a time of 1:50.23s. Anu was positioned seventeenth amongst 30 opponents whereas within the girls’s 800m occasion, Pooja clocked 2:10.66s to complete sixteenth amongst 29 rivals.
On Wednesday Indian quartet of Barath Sridhar, Priya Mohan, Summy and Kapil beat Jamaica to clinch the bronze medal with a time of three minutes 20.60 seconds however behind Nigeria and Poland.
In the boys’s javelin throw qualification additionally on Wednesday, Kunwer Ajai Raj Singh Rana (71.05m) from Group A and Jay Kumar (70.34m) from Group B secured their locations within the closing to be held on Friday from 4.20pm IST. Rana has a season’s better of 74.75m whereas Kumar’s private finest is 72.29m.
Nandini Agasara (girls’s 100m hurdles), Tejas Shirse (males’s 110mH), Pooja (girls’s 1500m), Shaili Singh (girls’s lengthy bounce), Shanmuga Srinivas Nalubothu (males’s 200m heats), Sunil Joliya (males’s steeplechase ) are the Indians who will compete on the third day.