National Open Athletics: Golden double for Harmilan Kaur Bains, B Aishwarya

There is not any stopping Harmilan Bains of Punjab on observe and on soar pit there was no problem for B Aishwarya of Railways in girls’s triple soar on the fourth day of the sixtieth National Open Athletics Championships on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Hanamkonda, Warangal in Telangana on Saturday
Harmilan, who on Thursday shattered the 19-year-old document in girls’s 1500m added the 800m title on the penultimate day. The 23-year-old proved as soon as extra that she is the undisputed queen over the center distance occasions within the nation following her wins within the National Inter-State Championships in Patiala organised earlier than the Tokyo Olympics.
KM Chand of Delhi gave Harmilan a troublesome time however just for a short time earlier than the Punjab lady drew on her stamina and velocity to indicate why she grew to become the champion for the fourth successive time this season.

She ran effectively inside herself as we speak, as soon as once more conserving forward of a resilient Chanda. @HarmilanBains @afiindia #NOAC2021 pic.twitter.com/KT1oazKaKf
— Anand Datla (@SportASmile) September 18, 2021
Less than 24 hours after her efficiency within the lengthy soar which received with a leap of 6.52m, one of the best this season, Aishwarya additionally claimed a golden double by profitable the ladies’s triple soar occasion with an effort of 13.42m edging Renu Grewal of Haryana by 4cm
Renu, whose season-best is 13.39m, led the competitors with an effort of 13.42m in her third try. 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. In her last and sixth try, Renu managed to leap to 13.51m.
Meanwhile, within the males’s pole vault S Siva of Services improved on his personal meet document to five.12m from 5.10m he set within the 2019 Ranchi meet.
T Santhosh Kumar of Tamil Nadu, who additionally represented India in 2018 Asiad, received the boys’s 400m hurdles with a season-best timing of fifty.79s which can be third-best behind Tokyo Olympian MP Jabir and Dharun Ayyasamy.
Mohammed Afsal of Services confirmed why is greatest within the males’s 800m occasion by retaining the gold medal forward of Ankesh Chaudhary and Krishan Kumar.
Earlier within the morning throughout qualification rounds, 2018 Jakarta Asian Games gold medallist and nationwide document holder at 17.17m, Arpinder Singh sneaked in because the final qualifier, with a 15.51m effort within the males’s triple soar. National junior champion Praveen Chithravel of Tamil Nadu (16.61m) led the 12 qualifiers which included Abdulla Aboobacker and Karthik Unnikrishnan of Services who additionally crossed 16m-mark.
In males’s 200m qualifying, Amlan Borgohain of Assam clocked a private better of 21.00s from his earlier one in all 21.99s and have become the quickest Indian within the occasion this season.

RESULTS
MEN
800m: Mohammed Afsal (Services, 1:48.39s), Ankesh Chaudhary (Ser, 1:48.58s), Krishan Kumar (Ser, 1:48.77)
400m hurdles: T Santhosh Kumar (TN, 50.79s), Jashanjot Singh (Rlys, 51.32s), Dhaval Mahesh Utekar (Ser, 51.49s)
Pole vault: S Siva (Ser, 5.12m NMR, OMR 5.10m by Siva in 2019 Ranchi meet), Parshant Singh Kanhaiya (Har, 4.95m), Sakthi Mahendran (TN, 4.70m)
Discus throw: Kirpal Singh (ONGC, 59.58m), Gagandeep Singh (Ser, 58.32m), Abhinav (Har, 56.18)
50km race stroll: Resham Midhun (Ser, 4hr 29 min 47.00s), Sanabam Damen Singh (Ser, 4:33:32.00s), Anjani Kumar Singh (Ser, 4:35:29.00s)
WOMEN
800m: Harmilan Bains (Punjab, 2:03.82s), Chanda (Delhi, 2:05.35s), Rachna (Har, 2:07.00s)
400m hurdles: R Vithya Ramaraj (TN, 58.47s), Nanhi (Har, 1:00.06s), Ayana Thomas (Police, 1:00.08s)
Triple soar: B Aishwarya (Rlys, 13.55m), Rebu Grewal (Har, 13.51s), Bhairabi Roy (Rlys, 13.12s)
Javelin throw: Sharmila Kumari (Rlys, 51.80m), Okay Rashmi (Rlys, 50.36m), Shilpa Rani (Har, 47.83m)
Heptathlon: Akshatha (Karnataka, 4939 factors 100mH: 14.74s; HJ: 1.52m; SP: 9.25m; 200m: 25.47s; LJ: 5.88m; JT: 32.89m; 800m: 2:25.46s); 2. Sowmiya Murugan (Rlys, 4893pts), Sonu Kumari (Har, 4889)