PANJIM: Asian Games medallist Jyoti Yarraji and Tejas Shirse broke National Games records on way to winning the gold medals in 100m and 110m hurdles at the athletics competitions of the 37th National Games held at the Athletics Stadium, Bambolim.
Jyoti improved on her own mark, finishing in 13.22 sec while Tejas who had rewritten the Games record in the heats to 13.80 sec held on Monday morning, improved his timing by finishing in 13.71 sec in the finals.
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Maharashtra is leading the medal tally with 47 Gold, 34 Silver and 33 Bronze followed by Haryana with 18 Gold, 15 Silver and 17 Bronze in second place and last editions champions SSCB are currently third with 17 Gold, 9 Silver and 7 Bronze.
On a day of records being broken, Priyanka Goswami bettered the Games record in the 20km walk held in the morning. Priyanka finished in 1:36:35 sec breaking the record of Munita Prajapati, who won the bronze medal. Maharashtra’s Sejal Anil Singh finished in 1:41:13 sec to win the silver.
In the 400 M, Vithya Ramraj of Tamil Nadu took gold finishing in 52.85 sec well ahead of Jyotikasri D of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala’s Jisna Mathew.
In the men’s category, K. Avinash of Tamil Nadu took gold dipping ahead of Haryana’s Vikrant Panchal. Maharashtra’s Rahul Ramesh Kadam finished with the bronze.
