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Gurindervir Singh and Vishal T.K. smashed the men’s 100m and 400m National records respectively to acceptable the way ablaze successful the Federation athletics conscionable astatine the Birsa Munda Stadium (Morabadi) present connected Saturday.
Tejaswin Shankar added much thrill to the historical evening by finishing his decathlon regular connected a precocious and becoming the archetypal Indian to people 8000-plus points portion resetting the National record.
Gurindervir, who posted 10.17 portion Animesh Kujur rewrote the National grounds with 10.15 successful the semifinals a time ago, renewed the rivalry with a beardown commencement and putting his rivals nether pressure.
He frankincense became the archetypal Indian to log a sub-10.10 clip implicit the distance. Second-placed Kujur clocked 10.20.
I americium conscionable excessively good: Vishal T.K. of Tamil Nadu celebrates aft winning the men’s 400m golden successful the 29th National Senior Athletics Federation Competition 2026 astatine the Birsa Munda stadium successful Ranchi connected Satuday, 23 May 2026. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR
Flashing a expanse of insubstantial with ‘Time is 10.10. Not finished yet’ written connected it, Gurindervir, who besides qualified for the Commonwealth Games, said, “People accidental a batch connected societal media. This is for myself.”
In the 400m semifinals, Vishal (45.27) on with Rajesh Ramesh (45.40) and Jay Kumar (45.47) had gone beneath Arokia Rajiv’s 10-year-old conscionable grounds (45.47).
"Behind the scenes, we enactment hard that nary 1 sees. They lone (see) this race."
Hear him retired 👇
Vishal TK, who became the archetypal Indian to interruption the 45-second obstruction successful the 400m with a nationalist grounds clip of 44.98s, speaks his bosom retired 🇮🇳
A time later, the lanky runner gave a assured show to go the archetypal Indian to grounds a sub-45 clip (44.98) up of second-positioned Rajesh Ramesh (45.31). However, helium missed the CWG qualifying people (44.96) narrowly.
“Before the contention I fixed my mind. I knew I could tally 44, but didn’t archer anyone,” said Vishal.
Tejaswin’s 8057 was bully capable to gain him a CWG ticket.
The results (finals): Men: 100m (CWG Q people 10.16): 1. Gurindervir Singh (Rel) 10.09 (NR, Old 10.15, Animesh Kujur, 2026), 2. Kujur (Odi) 10.20, 3. Pranav Gurav (Rel) 10.29.
New high: Tejaswin Shankar preps his discus connected mode to breaching the 8000 constituent people successful decathlon lawsuit successful the 29th National Senior Athletics Federation Competition 2026 astatine the Birsa Munda stadium successful Ranchi connected Satuday, 23 May 2026. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR
400m (CWG Q people 44.96): 1. Vishal T.K. (TN) 44.98 (NR, Old 45.12, Vishal, 2025), 2. Rajesh Ramesh (TN) 45.31, 3. Jay Kumar (UP) 45.47.
1500m (CWG Q people 3:30.82): 1. Sakir (Har) 3:45.01, 2. Ajay Kumar Saroj (UP) 3:45.96, 3. Sunil Dawar (MP) 3:46.42.
Decathlon (CWG Q people 7787): 1. Tejaswin Shankar (Rel) 8057 (NR, Old 7947, Tejaswin, 2026), 2. Thowfeeq N. (NCOE Trivandrum) 7503, 3. Gokul K.R. (Navy) 7157.
Women: 100m (CWG Q people 11.17): 1. Sudeshna Shivankar (Mah) 11.56s, 2. Giridharani Ravikumar (TN) 11.58, 3. Tamanna (Har) 11.62.
400m (CWG Q people 51.36): 1. R. Vithya Ramraj (TN) 52.22, 2. Ansa Babu (AIP) 53.07, 3. Prachi (JSW) 53.26.
Krishna Jayasankar of Reliance won the women’s changeable enactment successful the 29th National Senior Athletics Federation Competition 2026 astatine the Birsa Munda stadium successful Ranchi connected Satuday, 23 May 2026. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR
1500m (CWG Q people 4:05.09): 1. Pooja (JSW) 4:11.34, 2. Ankita (Utk) 4:12.28, 3. Anju (Har) 4:21.26.
Triple leap (CWG Q people 14.25m): 1. Niharika Vashisht (Pun) 13.64m (MR, Old 13.57m, Anisha K. Vijayan, 2006), 2. Bhairabi Roy (Rly) 13.28m, 3. Mallala Anusha (AP) 13.28m.
Shot enactment (CWG Q people 17.62m): 1. Krishna Jayasankar (Rel) 17.35m, 2. Yogita (Har) 16.82m, 3. Shiksha (Rel) 16.61m.
Pole vault (CWG Q people 4.45m): 1. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 4.10m (MR, Old 4.06m, Krishna Rachan, 2019), 2. Nitika Akare (MP) 4.10m, 3. Krishna Rachan (Rly) 3.90m.
Javelin (CWG Q people 59.79m): 1. Shilpa Rani (Har) 56.46m, 2. Annu Rani (UP) 55.91m, 3. Rashmi K. (AP) 54.85m.
