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Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh lowered the National 100m grounds twice, portion Asian Games metallic medallist agelong jumper Ancy Sojan rewrote the conscionable grounds connected the opening time of the Federation athletics conscionable astatine the Birsa Munda Stadium (Morabadi) connected Friday.
In the conducive evening session, Gurindervir clocked 10.17 to interruption Kujur’s National grounds successful the semifinals. Within minutes, displaying steadfast rivalry, Kujur dashed to regain his grounds with a people of 10.15 and attained the Commonwealth Games qualifying mark.
Animesh Kujur celebrates his caller nationalist grounds successful the semifinals of the men’s 100m tally successful the 29th National Senior Athletics Federation Competition 2026 astatine Birsa Munda stadium successful Ranchi connected Friday, 22 May 2026. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Ancy and her adjacent rival Shaili Singh besides exhibited different good occurrence of rivalry. Responding to Shaili’s archetypal leap of 6.38m, Ancy logged 6.47 earlier consistently achieving 5 6.5m-plus jumps, including her 4th (6.75m) to erase Shaili’s conscionable grounds (6.64m) and triumph the golden with her idiosyncratic best. However, she fell abbreviated of the CWG qualifying people by 9 cm.
Deepak Bhatt of Uttrakhand won the men’s 10000m golden successful the 29th National Senior Athletics Federation Competition 2026 astatine the Birsa Munda stadium successful Ranchi connected Friday, 22 May 2026. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR
“My archetypal people was to execute without a leap foul. I purpose for the Commonwealth (qualification mark),” said Ancy.
Deepak Bhatt ran a well-planned race, going into the pb successful the past 70m, to assertion his maiden 10,000m title.
Tejaswin Shankar successful enactment successful the men’s agelong leap decathlon lawsuit successful the 29th National Senior Athletics Federation Competition 2026 astatine the Birsa Munda stadium successful Ranchi connected Friday, 22 May 2026. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Bihar’s Vibhaskar Kumar recorded a stunning 10.36 successful the men’s 100m heats and qualified for the Asian under-23 championships.
In the decathlon precocious leap event, Tejaswin Shankar achieved 2.25m to surpass the CWG people (2.22m).
The results (finals): Men: 10000m (CWG Q people 27:39.03): 1. Deepak Bhatt (Utk) 29:42.93, 2. Sailesh Kushwaha (Kar) 29:57.56, 3. Prashant Choudhary (UP) 30:36.97.
Hammer propulsion (CWG Q people 73.09m): 1. Ashish Jakhar (SSCB) 68.52m, 2. Damneet Singh (Rel.) 67.62m, 3. Ajay Kumar (Har) 64.93m.
3000m steeplechase (CWG Q people 8:30.26): 1. Balkishan (Har) 8:56.01, 2. Sharuk Khan (UP) 8:56.63, 3. Sunil Joliya Jinabhai (Guj) 8:58.38.
Women: 10000m (CWG Q people 31:14.14): 1. Ravina Gayakwad (Mah) 35:40.98, 2. Soniya (Utk) 36:16.22, 3. Aarti Pawara (Mah) 36:24.79.
Long leap (CWG Q people 6.84m): 1. Ancy Sojan (Navy) 6.75m (MR, Old 6.64, Shaili Singh, 2025), 2. Shaili Singh (Anju Bobby George Academy) 6.58m, 3. Bhavani Yadav (NCOE Bengaluru) 6.39m.
3000m steeplechase (CWG Q people 9:27.41): 1. Ankita Dhyani (Utk) 9:48.16, 2. Prachi Devkar (IOCL) 10:16.29, 3. Anju (Har) 10:28.23.
Discus (CWG Q people 56.85m): 1. Seema (JSW) 57.29m, 2. Nidhi Rani (Har) 55.05m, 3. Krishna Jayasankar (Rel.) 55.00m.
