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Jyothi Yarraji wins India's first ever 100m hurdles medal at World University Games; Amlan clinches 200m bronze

FP Sports • August 5, 2023, 08:30:45 IST
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Jyothi Yarraji clocked 12.78 seconds to finish third in the women’s 100m hurdles final, bettering her earlier national mark of 12.82 seconds which she had recorded in October 2022.

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Jyothi Yarraji wins India's first ever 100m hurdles medal at World University Games; Amlan clinches 200m bronze

Jyothi Yarraji on Friday became the first Indian to win a 100m hurdles medal — a bronze — at the World University Games. The Visakhapatnam sprinter also broker her own national record while creating history in Chengdu, China. Amlan Borgohain also made history by winning India’s first ever 200m medal at the World University Games as he picked a bronze medal with a season’s best time of 20.55 seconds. Before Friday, India has won just four medals in track and field events at the World University Games. In sprint races, only Dutee Chand had won a medal – a 100m gold in 2019 edition – in the World University Games before Yarraji and Borgohain’s bronze medals on Friday. The 23-year-old Yarraji clocked 12.78 seconds to finish third in the women’s 100m hurdles final, bettering her earlier national mark of 12.82 seconds which she had recorded in October 2022. She was only 0.01 seconds off the qualification mark for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Jyothi Yarraji set Indian record in the women 100m hurdles with a performance of 12.78s in FISU World University Games at Chengdu. Jyothi bagged bronze medal in high voltage final. pic.twitter.com/GQN7RYZsbB

— Rahul PAWAR ( राहुल पवार ) (@rahuldpawar) August 4, 2023

Viktoria Forster of Slovakia won the gold medal, clocking 12.72, while Yanni Wu of China took the silver with a time of 12.76. The 25-year-old Borgohain also missed his own national record of 20.52 by a whisker. Tsebo Isadore Matsoso of South Africa won the gold with a time of 20.36 while Yudai Nishi of Japan was second in 20.46.

New innings for Amlan Borgohain at #WorldUniversityGames#Athletics

The 200m National Record Holder clocked a time of 20.55s & gave his Season's best performance at the event. 🥳

Well done & many congratulations on your multiple feat Amlan💪🏻👏 pic.twitter.com/Y7cVaU2dsk

— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 4, 2023
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With the two medals on Friday, India now have won 11 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze, placed at fourth spot in the standings. China is on top of the medals tally, followed by Korea and Japan. Indian athletics’ first medal at the World University Games came in the 2013 edition in Kazan, Russia, where shot putter Inderjeet Singh won a silver. Inderjeet went on to win a gold in the 2015 edition in Gwangju, South Korea. In the 2017 edition in Taipei, Sanjivani Jadhav won a silver in 10,000m race before Dutee Chand clinched a 100m gold in 2019 in Naples, Italy.

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