National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2025: Jyothi Yarraji bags gold in women’s 100m hurdles

KOCHI: Olympian Jyothi Yarraji bagged the gold medal in the women’s 100m hurdles event at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2025 in Kochi, Kerala, on Tuesday, according to Olympics.com.

Jyothi clocked 13.23s to finish at the top of the podium. Her impressive time was better than the Athletics Federation of India’s (AFI) 2025 Asian Championships qualification mark of 13.26 seconds.

Pragyan Prasanti Sah finished in second place, followed by Nithya Ramraj in the third spot in the women’s 100m hurdles with times of 13.40s and 13.42s, respectively.

Jyothi Yarraji qualifies for Asian Athletics 2025!

India’s Hurdle Queen stormed to gold at the Fed Cup, clocking 13.23s in the 100m hurdles final!

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In the men’s pole vault event, Dev Meena secured gold by setting a new national record with a 5.35m effort. The continental mark for the event is 5.51m. He bettered his previous personal best and national mark of 5.32m, which he had achieved at the National Games 2025. M Gowtham (5.15m) and Reegan G (5.10m) clinched the silver and bronze medals in the pole vault, respectively.

On Monday, Sachin Yadav won the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2025, where he threw a javelin of 83.86m, which booked the first spot for him in the competition. Competing at the Maharaja’s College Stadium, Sachin’s winning mark came in the fifth round. His final attempt of 83.67m would also have been enough to top the field.

Sachin Yadav’s personal best of 84.39m came at the National Games earlier this year. Yash Vir Singh took silver with a best of 80.85m, while Sahil Silwal bagged bronze with a 77.84m throw. Asian Games silver medallist Kishore Jena placed fourth with a 77.82m attempt.

The Federation Cup athletics meet was Jena’s second competitive outing since the Paris 2024 Olympics and his return from injury. In April, Jena finished second at the Indian Open Athletics Meet in Chennai with a 75.99m throw, behind Yash Vir Singh’s 77.49m.

Kishore Jena holds a personal best of 87.54m, which came at the Asian Games 2023, where he claimed the silver medal behind national record-holder and world champion Neeraj Chopra. (ANI)