Four junior athletes attain qualifying mark for under-20 world championships
Bereft of marquee stars, the events in senior category wallowed in mediocrity but juniors athletes came up with impressive performances with four of them achieving the qualifying mark for world Under-20 athletics championships in the Indian Athletics series-10 at the LNCPE Athlet
Bereft of marquee stars, the events in senior category wallowed in mediocrity but juniors athletes came up with impressive performances with four of them achieving the qualifying mark for world Under-20 athletics championships in the Indian Athletics series-10 at the LNCPE Athletics Stadium here on Sunday (June 14, 2026).Tamil Nadu’s Unwin Anand Ananthan clocked a personal best of 1:49.93 seconds to attain the qualifying mark for the World Under-20 championship.
The qualifying mark for world championship was 1:51.00 set by AFI and Unwin achieved it by finishing first in the under-20 event.Asian under-20 champion Pooja won the women’s high jump in 1.
81m and attained the under-20 qualifying mark of 1.80m. K.
Ambriesh cleared 2.12m in junior boys high jump and achieved the qualifying mark of 2.09m.
Tanu Chaudhary too achieved the world under-20 qualification mark (1:00.75) by clocking a personal best of 59.15s in junior girls 400m hurdles.
The long jump event saw the top three jumpers cross 8.00m. P.
David (NCOE, Bengaluru) sealed the win with his last jump of 8.22m. Shanavas, who held the lead briefly with 8.
09m, could only touch 8.17m in his last attempt and finished second. Jithin Arjunan cleared 8.
12m to finish third. In the triple jump event, Tamil Nadu’s Gailey Venister cleared 16.38m to push Vishal Bhadur, who had grabbed the lead in the fifth round (16.
10) to second place. National camper, T.S.
Manu breezed to a win in the men’s 400m race with a timing of 46.24s while Rashdeep Kaur (JSW) finished first in women’s section in 53.32s.
Tamil Nadu athletes impressed as they won most of the track events in the men’s section The results (winners only)Men: 100m: A: I. Gitson (TN) (10.51s), B: Jammula Bhanu Srinivas (AP) (10.
88), C: Halvi S. Vij (Ker) (10.85).
D: S. Sam Vasanth (TN) (10.60s); 200m: A: Nithin Arunan (TN) (21.
76), B: Sethu Mishra (Bih) (21.86), C: Dharmveer Choudhary (Raj) (20.82); 400m: A: T.
Santosh Kumar (TN) (46.73), B: T.S.
Manu (NCOE, Tvm) (46.24, C: A. Suraj (TN) (47.
03), D: Mohit Kumar (NCOE, Tvm) (46.82), E: Theerthesh P. Shetty (Kar) (46.
59); 800m: Pradeep Senthil Kumar (TN) (1:47.09); 110m hurdles: A: Paaro Kabilan (TN) (14.43), B:R.
Manav (Rlys) (13.85); 400m hurdles: B. Ragul (TN) (52.
66), B: M. Manoop (Rlys) (52.83), C: T.
Santosh Kumar (TN) (49.91); High Jump: Basant (2.19m); Long jump: P.
David (NCOE, Blg) (8.22m); Triple jump: Gailey Venister (TN) (16.38m).
Under-20:Boys: 100m: A: P. Chiranthi (Kar) (10.70), B: Mehebubul Ahamed (WB) (10.
74), C:A,Abubacker (Kar) (10.62), D: R. Neil Samraj (TN) (10.
59), 200m: A: Arshdeep Singh (Pun) (21.85), B: Rudra Shinde (Mah) (21.26), 400m: Bhavesh Rajkumar (TN) (50.
07), B: V. Vignesh (TN) (47.88), C: S.
Ranjith Kumar (TN) (47.26); 3000m: Dhanush Adithya (TN) (9:03.66); 110m hurdles: A: Dhruv Milind Lawand (Mah) (14.
51), B: Sandeep Vinodkumar (Reliance) (13.63), 400m hurdles: Sahil Raj (UP) (52.72), High Jump: K.
Ambriesh (NCOE, Bng) (2.12m); Long jump: Rajeev Roy (WB) (7.45m);Triple Jump: Daksh Bishnoi (Pun) (15.
46m)Women: 100m: A: S. Srireshma (TN) (12.15), B: Giridharani Ravikumar (TN) (11.
61); 200m: A: Archana S. Suseendran (TN) (25.55), B: Sandra Mol Sabu (NCOE, Tvm) (25.
61), C: Harita Bhadra (Reliance) (23.58); 400m: A: Jisna Mathew (Ker) (55.38), B: Olimba Steffi (TN) (54.
02), C: Rashdeep Kaur (JSW) (53.32); 800m: Gowthami Jayaraman (Police) (2:08.00); 100m hurdles: A: S.
Srireshma (TN) (14.18), B: K.Nandhini (TN) (13.
42); 400m hurdles: A: Megha (Kar) (1:00.88), B: R. Harshitha (TN) (1:00.
53),C: Tanu Chaudhary (NCOE, Patiala) (59.15); High jump: Pooja (Har) (1.81m); Long Jump: Bhavani Yadav (NCOE, Bng) (6.
61m); Triple jump: Aleena T. Saji (Ker) (12.87m)Under-20: Girls: 100m: A: Divyangi (Mah) (11.
88), B: Nipam (UP) (11.75), 200m: Bhoomika Nehate (Mah) (25.05), 400m: A: A.
K. Thiya (NCOE, Tvm) (55.02), B: Sehnoor Bawa (Pun) (55.
38); 800m: Davinder Kaur (Har) (2:10.35), 3000m: M.B.
Krishnendhu (Ker) (12:00.63), 100m hurdles: G. Bhavana (TN) (14.
52); 400m hurdles: Latika Dharan (TN) (1:06.39); Jigh jump: Anamika Ajesh (Ker) (1.45m); Long jump: Komal (5.
62m), Pole Vault: Jeena Basil (Ker) (3.50m). Published - June 15, 2026 01:36 am IST Read Comments Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit READ LATER SEE ALL Remove Related Topics sport
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