Sachin Yadav
Uttar Pradesh’s javelin throw player Sachin Yadav, Haryana’s 18 -year -old high jump player Pooja Singh and long -range runner Sawan Berwal of Himachal Pradesh won gold medals with new records of National Games on the last day of the athletics competition in Dehradun on 12 February. . In the absence of star players like Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Jena, 25 -year -old Yadav won the gold medal by throwing Bhale 84.39 meters in his fifth and final attempt.
Yadav improved Rajinder Singh’s previous record of 82.23 meters of National Games in 2015. Yadav’s 84.39 meters is now Chopra (89.94 m), Jena (87.54 m), Shivpal Singh (86.23 m) and Devinder Singh Kong (84.57 m) are the fifth best throw of an Indian’s career. Silver and bronze of javelin throw were also named after Uttar Pradesh. Rohit Yadav finished second with 80.47 meters while Vikas Sharma finished third from 79.33 meters. Pooja, daughter of a mason in Fatehabad district of Haryana, retained the gold medal of high jump of women won in 2023 sessions with an effort of 1.84 meters. He improved the previous record of Swapna Burman’s 1.83 meter National Games in 2022. Pooja’s private best performance is 1.85 meters which is also the National Under-20 record.
Gobika’s (1.79 m) of Tamil Nadu won Silver while Abhinya Shetty (1.77m) of Karnataka won the bronze medal. Berwal won the Gold Medal of the Men 5000 meter race with 13 minutes 45.93 seconds. He improved the records of the 13 -minute 50.05 second National Games of the Army’s G Lakshmanan in 2015. This is Berwal’s record of second gold and second national Games in the current sports. He also won the men’s 10,000 meter competition on Saturday with a record time of 28 minutes 49.93 seconds. Gagan Singh of Haryana won the silver medal with 14 minutes 00.04 seconds while Sunil Davar of Madhya Pradesh won the bronze medal from a time of 14 minutes 01.33 seconds.
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