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As bulk of the athletes struggled to flooded the aboriginal play blues, Piyush Raj (Bihar) and Sahil Malik (Uttarakhand) came up with sizzling performances successful boys under-20 class successful the Indian Open 400m conscionable astatine the LNCPE Athletics stadium connected Saturday.
Piyush (47.11) and Sahil (47.28s) came archetypal and 2nd respectively and punched their tickets to the World Under-20 athletics championships by coming nether the qualifying people of 47.40s.
Piyush reserved his energy for the final after finishing the qualifying contention with a humble timing of 48.23. However, successful the final, Piyush came up with a dizzying tally astatine the 2nd curve and motored past Sahil to decorativeness first.
Rajesh Ramesh (TN) came up with a beardown footwear successful the last 100 metres to flooded a spirited situation from T.S. Manu (NCOE) to triumph the men’s 400m successful 45.26s. Manu clocked 45.96 for metallic portion Amoj Jacob, who won contention C, came 3rd successful 45.99.
The women’s 400m was weakened by the propulsion outs of nationalist campers Jyothika Sri, Hima Das and Manisha Kumari. However, R. Vithya Ramraj, who had the champion timing successful the heats, came up with a bully tally successful the location agelong to triumph successful 53.31s. G.K. Vijayakumari and Poovama Raju finished 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The results: Men: 1. Rajesh Ramesh (TN) (45.26s), 2. T.S. Manu (NCOE) (45.96), 3. Amoj Jacob (Delhi) (45.99).
Boys: Under-20: 1. Piyush Raj (Bihar) (47.11), 2. Sahil Malik (Uttarakhand) (47.28), 3. Edvin Mathew (Kerala) (47.65).
Under-18: 1. Sayeed Sabeer (Karnataka) (47.73), 2. Thanish Vijay Gaddam (NCOE) (48.31).
Women: 1. R. Vithya Ramraj (TN) (53.31), 2. G.K. Vijayakumari (Karnataka) (53.55), 3. Poovamma Raju (ONGC) (53.61), Girls: Under-20: 1. Reshma (UP) (54.84), 2. Isha Rajesh Jadhav (Maharashtra) (55.46), 3. A. Dharani (TN) (55.63).
Under-18: 1. Kashish Bhagat (Maharashtra) (56.46), 2. M. Nethra (TN) (59.54), 3. Ashaben Chaudhary (Gujarat) (59.62).
