New Delhi: Top Indian long jumper Nayana James continued her strong form as she won gold at the Taiwan Athletics Open with an effort of 6.43m in Taipei on Sunday.
28-year-old Nayana achieved the best jump of the day in her third attempt in rainy conditions at the World Athletics Continental Tour bronze level competition.
This was his best jump outside India. His personal best is 6.67 metres, which he recorded after winning the gold medal at the Indian Open jump competition in March.
He had also won a gold medal in the Federation Cup last month with an effort of 6.53m.Meanwhile, rising Indian sprinter Animesh Kujur won the men's 200m gold medal at the Trofeo de Atletismo Ciudad de Salamanca-Memorial Carlos Gil Perez athletics meet in Spain.
Animesh, 21, ran 20.59 seconds to win the race, but the +4.9 m/s wind speed at Salamanca's Helmantico Stadium on Saturday was not legal. The maximum permitted wind speed is +2.0 m/s.
His previous personal best was 20.62 seconds which he achieved when he won the gold medal at the Federation Cup in Bhubaneswar earlier this month.
Spain's Daniel Rodriguez Serrano (20.85 seconds) and Mauro Triana Lopez (21.27 seconds) finished second and third respectively.The national record of 20.52 seconds in the men's 200 meters race is in the name of Amlan Borgohain, which was set two years ago. The Paris Olympics qualification time is 20.16 seconds.
Earlier, Animesh clocked a personal best of 10.27 seconds to finish fourth in the men's 100m race, just four hundredths shy of the national record set by Manikanta Hoblidhar last year.
National record holder 110m hurdles Tejas Shirse clocked 13.57 seconds to finish second at the World Athletics Category F meet in Salamanca, Spain.
A few days earlier, Shirase had set a national record of 13.41 seconds in the men's 110 meters hurdles during the World Athletics Continental Tour (Challenger level) meeting in Jyväskylä, Finland.At the Limoges National Meeting in France, a World Athletics Category D competition, Commonwealth Games triple jump gold medalist Aldoz Paul took the top spot with an effort of 16.24 metres, while Jessie Sandesh jumped 2.18 meters for the high jump title. put.
28-year-old Nayana achieved the best jump of the day in her third attempt in rainy conditions at the World Athletics Continental Tour bronze level competition.
This was his best jump outside India. His personal best is 6.67 metres, which he recorded after winning the gold medal at the Indian Open jump competition in March.
He had also won a gold medal in the Federation Cup last month with an effort of 6.53m.Meanwhile, rising Indian sprinter Animesh Kujur won the men's 200m gold medal at the Trofeo de Atletismo Ciudad de Salamanca-Memorial Carlos Gil Perez athletics meet in Spain.
Animesh, 21, ran 20.59 seconds to win the race, but the +4.9 m/s wind speed at Salamanca's Helmantico Stadium on Saturday was not legal. The maximum permitted wind speed is +2.0 m/s.
His previous personal best was 20.62 seconds which he achieved when he won the gold medal at the Federation Cup in Bhubaneswar earlier this month.
Spain's Daniel Rodriguez Serrano (20.85 seconds) and Mauro Triana Lopez (21.27 seconds) finished second and third respectively.The national record of 20.52 seconds in the men's 200 meters race is in the name of Amlan Borgohain, which was set two years ago. The Paris Olympics qualification time is 20.16 seconds.
Earlier, Animesh clocked a personal best of 10.27 seconds to finish fourth in the men's 100m race, just four hundredths shy of the national record set by Manikanta Hoblidhar last year.
National record holder 110m hurdles Tejas Shirse clocked 13.57 seconds to finish second at the World Athletics Category F meet in Salamanca, Spain.
A few days earlier, Shirase had set a national record of 13.41 seconds in the men's 110 meters hurdles during the World Athletics Continental Tour (Challenger level) meeting in Jyväskylä, Finland.At the Limoges National Meeting in France, a World Athletics Category D competition, Commonwealth Games triple jump gold medalist Aldoz Paul took the top spot with an effort of 16.24 metres, while Jessie Sandesh jumped 2.18 meters for the high jump title. put.
