National Athletics Championships: Punjab’s Harmilan Bains completes double in middle-distance, wins 800m gold

Harmilan Kaur Bains gained the gold medal within the ladies’s 800m race within the ongoing sixtieth National Open Athletics Championships in Warangal on Saturday.

The Punjab middle-distance runner accomplished her double as she had earlier gained the 1500m gold, a few days again.Harmilan Kaur Bains, 23, drew on her stamina and pace to point out a clear pair of heels to Delhi runner Okay M Chanda for the fourth successive time this yr.The Punjab athlete had gained the 800-1500 double within the National Inter-State Championships in Patiala in June and although Chanda employed totally different ways right here, the Punjab runner was prepared and emerged on high.Railways’ B Aishwarya additionally claimed a horizontal bounce double by profitable the triple bounce lower than 24 hours after claiming the lengthy bounce title.To her credit score, she gained each occasions with the very best efforts of the yr by an Indian girl jumper. Aishwarya, who gained the lengthy bounce with a leap of 6.52m, edged out Renu Grewal of Haryana by 4cm to double her pleasure.In a eager battle on the triple bounce pit, it was Renu Grewal who led the competitors on the half-way stage with an effort of 13.42m on her third try to enhance on her personal season’s greatest effort of 13.39m.Aishwarya, whose greatest within the first three jumps was 13.31m, responded with two jumps previous that mark, logging 13.49m and 13.55m for a brand new private greatest.Hard because the Haryana jumper tried on her final try, she might solely get to 13.51m.There was pleasure for Services when its athletes swept all podium locations within the males’s 800m and the gruelling 50km race stroll to finish a hat-trick after it despatched out all three medallists within the males’s 3000m steeplechase on Friday.Mohammed Afsal confirmed lasting energy to edge forward of Ankesh Chaudhary and Krishan Kumar within the 800m closing.There was extra excellent news for Services camp when pole vaulter S Siva improved on his personal meet report, elevating it to five.12m from the 5.10m that he had cleared in Ranchi in October 2019.In the Heptathlon contest, Akshatha made gentle of the 118-point first-day hole with Sowmiya Murugan (Railways) with a great present on the lengthy bounce pit, the place she logged 5.88m.Sowmiya Murugan regained the lead with a 37.32m effort within the javelin throw, however the Karnataka athlete gained the 800m by a 6.63 seconds margin to assert the all-rounder’s crown with a 46-point margin.Haryana’s Sonu Kumari too might have upstaged Sowmiya Murugan had she been capable of muster a barely higher distance with the javelin throw. She ended up a mere 4 factors behind the Railways all-rounder.Earlier within the day, the lads’s triple bounce qualifying noticed Praveen Chithravel (Tamil Nadu) give you his season’s greatest effort, clearing 16.61m on his first try to steer the 12 qualifiers.Abdulla Aboobacker and Karthik Unnikrishnan (each Services) have been the others who crossed 16m.The 2018 Asian Games champion Arpinder Singh made it to the ultimate because the final qualifier, with a 15.51m effort, simply 1cm greater than Anil Kumar Bhagirathi Sahoo of Maharashtra.