National Athletics Championships: Punjab’s Harmilan Kaur Bains breaks 19-year-old document to win 1500m title

Punjab’s Harmilan Kaur Bains shattered a 19-year-old nationwide document to win the ladies’s 1500m race by clocking 4:05 within the ongoing sixtieth National Open Athletics Championships in Warangal on Thursday.

However, Harmilan’s effort fell wanting the World Championships qualification which is about at 4:04.20.Harmilan,20, cruised dwelling in 4:05.39 seconds to erase the mark set by Sunita Rani at 4:06.03 on the 2002 Asian Games in Busan in the identical event the place her mom Madhuri Singh took the 800m silver.Harmilan additionally broke OP Jaisha’s meet document of 4:11.83 (Delhi 2006).Delhi’s KM Chanda (4:18.24) shadowed Harmilan Bains till the Punjab runner sped away on the bell to win by a large margin.Undefeated in eight national-level races since January 2020, Harmilan has proven speedy progress, bettering from 4:14.68 within the Khelo India University Games in Bhubaneshwar final yr to 4:08.70 and 4:08.27 within the Federation Cup (March 16) and Indian Grand Prix 4 (June 21) respectively in Patiala.On Thursday, she capped it off with a National mark.Taranjeet additionally hogged the limelight profitable the 100m with a private finest time of 11.50, two years after she was knocked down by a automotive and broke a collar bone.Taranjeet knocked two-tenths of a second from her earlier better of 11.70 clocked in profitable the Federation Cup Junior (U20) title in Bhopal on January 25 this yr.Naresh Kumar gained the boys’s dash in 10.30 seconds, the second quickest time by an Indian in 100m this yr behind Gurindervir Singh’s 10.27 seconds in Patiala on June 26.It additionally gave the 23-year-old from Guntur a spot among the many 5 quickest sprinters in Indian historical past, handing him the Meet Record, bettering Anil Kumar’s 10.37 seconds set in 2001.The race produced private bests for Assam’s Amlan Borgohain and Harjit Singh (Services) with instances of 10.34 seconds for each, a photograph end separating them by six-thousandths of a second to safe the silver medal for the previous.To their credit score, the trio was in a position to script nice runs regardless of a few false begins by Services’ KS Pranav and Satnam Singh.The males’s 1500m race noticed an upset of kinds as little-known Parvej Khan (Haryana) handed two-time Asian Athletics Championships medallist Ajay Kumar Saroj (Railways) his first defeat on the National degree since August 20, 2019.Yaman Deep Sharma (Rajasthan) emerged the very best all-rounder with a 55-point victory over Usaid Khan (Services), using on his 182-point lead earned on the primary day on Wednesday via lengthy leap, excessive leap and 400m.Asian Games gold medal profitable heptathlete Swapna Barman (Railways) gained the ladies’s excessive leap, whereas Sahil Silwal (Haryana) confirmed that he could possibly be the javelin thrower to observe sooner or later as he gained the boys’s occasion with a remaining throw of 77.79m that noticed him catapult from the fourth spot to the highest of the rostrum.