Federation meet – The Hindu

Kushare gave an excellent account of his focus to first register 2.22m and guarantee his CWG journey.
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In a spectacular neck-and-neck contest, Dev Meena pipped coaching accomplice Kuldeep Kumar to rewrite the lads’s pole vault Nationwide file with a mark of 5.45m within the Federation athletics meet on the Birsa Munda Stadium (Morabadi) on Sunday.

Pushing one another laborious, each confirmed good rhythm to clear 5.45m. The 2 raised the bar to five.50m, however couldn’t go previous it. Meena received the higher of Kuldeep, who had set the Nationwide mark of 5.41m earlier this month, on the premise of registering fewer complete misses (Meena’s eight vs Kuldeep’s 9).

The 2 earned their tickets for the Commonwealth Video games.

“We did our greatest at this time and gave one another an excellent combat. We are going to proceed to maintain up our combat so as to enhance additional,” stated Meena.

Shreeshankar leaped to eight.08m in his third leap
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“We’re nonetheless studying this technical sport and we are going to enhance,” stated Kuldeep.

Excessive jumper Sarvesh Kushare gave an excellent account of his focus to first register 2.22m and guarantee his CWG journey. He improved it additional to equal Tejaswin Shankar’s meet file (2.28m). Nevertheless, his try to enhance 1cm upon Tejaswin’s Nationwide file (2.29m) didn’t succeed.

A constant M. Sreeshankar leaped to eight.08m in his third leap to qualify for the CWG. His final two makes an attempt had been foul.

Forty-year-old Olympian Sandeep Kumar emerged the lads’s 10,000m race stroll champion after 18-year-old winner Nitin Gupta was disqualified as per World Athletics Technical Rule 6.2, which prohibits help to an athlete throughout an occasion, late on Saturday. Sandeep had filed a criticism after the race.

The outcomes (finals): Males: 1500m (CWG Q mark: 3:30.82): 1. Rahul Baloda (Raj) 3:40.06, 2. Sakir (Har) 3:40.83, 3. Ajay Kumar Saroj (UP) 3:40.92; 110m hurdles (CWG Q mark 13.39): 1. Tejas Shirse (Rel.) 13.50 (NMR, Outdated Tejas Shirse 13.61, 2023), 2. Krishik M. (Rel) 13.52, 2. Muhammed Lazan (Navy) 13.83; Lengthy leap (CWG Q mark: 8.05m): 1. M. Sreeshankar (NCOE Thiruvananthapuram) 8.08m, 2. S. Lokesh (Rel) 7.94m, 3. Mohd. Atta Sazid (Har) 7.90m; Excessive leap (CWG Q mark 2.22m): 1. Sarvesh Kushare (Mah) 2.28m (MR, Outdated 2.28m, Tejaswin Shankar, 2018), 2. Aadarsh Ram (TN) 2.22m, 3. Sudeep (Kar) 2.12m; Discus (CWG Q mark 64.56m): 1. Dharamraj Yadav (Military) 55.20m, 2. Bhartpreet Singh (Navy) 54.62m, 3. Oinam Alson Singh (NCOE Patiala) 53.52m; Pole vault (CWG Q mark: 5.25m): 1. Dev Meena (MP Academy) 5.45m (NR, Outdated 5.41m, Kuldeep Kumar, 2026), 2. Kuldeep Kumar (MP) 5.45m, 3. Reegan G. (TN) 5.15m.

Girls: 100m hurdles (CWG Q mark 12.67): 1. Nandhini Ok. (TN) 13.24, 2. Pragyan Prasanti Sahu (Odi) 13.33, 3. Anjali C. (JSW) 13.35; Hammer (CWG Q mark 66.80m): 1. Manpreet Kaur (Pun) 59.08m, 2. Kulvinder Kaur (Rly) 57.76m, 3. Divya Shandilya (Odi) 56.41m; 10,000m race stroll (CWG Q mark 44:44.58): 1. Ravina (Har) 44:29.66, 2. Reshma Patel (AIP) 44:57.94, 3. Munita Prajapati (UP) 45:23.92.

Saturday: Males: 10,000m race stroll (CWG Q mark 39:06.28): 1. Sandeep Kumar (Har) 39:51.95, 2. Servin (TN) 40:23.22, 3. Paramjeet Singh Bisht (Utk) 40:51.65.