Here are the results of Day 1 of Athletics in National Games 2022.
Praveen Chithravel bagged the men’s triple jump gold with a best effort of 16.68m at the ongoing National Games 2022. Praveen, who is currently among the top triple jumpers in the country, prevailed over Arun Ab (16.08m) who took the silver medal. The triple jump event also featured Asian Games 2018 gold medalist Arpinder Singh who secured the bronze with a jump of 15.97 m. Swapna Barman established a new Games record with a jump of 1.83m in the women’s high jump. Parvej Khan clocked 3:40.89 in the men’s 1500m race to surpass Bahadur Prasad’s 28-year-old record. Meanwhile, in the 20km Women’s race walk, Uttar Pradesh’s Munita Prajapati set a new national record with a timing of 1:38:20. Tokyo Olympian Amoj Jacob qualified for the final of the men’s 400m with a new Games record of 46.30m.
Women’s 20km Racewalk
Gold – Munita Prajapati (Uttar Pradesh)
Silver – Mansi Nagi (Uttarakhand)
Bronze – Reshma Patel (Uttarakhand)
Men’s 20km Racewalk
Gold – Devender Singh (Services)
Silver – Suraj Panwar (Uttarakhand)
Bronze – Akshdeep Singh (Services)
Men’s Triple Jump
Gold – Praveen Chithravel (Tamil Nadu) – 16.68 m
Silver – Arun Ab (Kerala) -16.08 m
Bronze – Arpinder Singh (Punjab) – 15.97 m
Men’s 1500m
Gold – Parvej Khan (Services)
Silver- Ajay Kumar Saroj (Uttar Pradesh)
Bronze – Arjun Waskale (Madhya Pradesh)
Women’s 1500m
Gold – Chanda Km (Delhi)
Silver – Ankita (Uttarakhand)
Bronze – Deeksha Km (Madhya Pradesh)
Men’s Hammer Throw
Gold – Damneet Singh (Punjab)
Silver – Nitesh Poonia (Rajasthan)
Bronze – Niraj Kumar (Services)
Women’s High Jump
Gold – Swapna Barman (Madhya Pradesh)
Silver – Abhinaya S Shetty (Karnataka)
Bronze – Gracena Glistus Merly (Tamil Nadu)
Women’s Shot Put
Gold – Kiran Baliyan (Uttar Pradesh)
Silver – Manpreet Kaur Jr (Punjab)
Bronze – Manpreet Kaur (Haryana)
Women’s Hammer Throw
Gold – Sarita R Singh (Uttar Pradesh)
Silver – Rekha Singh (Uttarakhand)
Bronze – Renu (Haryana)
Men’s 100m
Amlan Borgohain (Assam), Siva Kumar B (Tamil Nadu), Pranav Gurav (Maharashtra), Elakiya Dasan V K (Tamil Nadu), Harjit Singh (Services), Kiran Bhosale (Maharashtra), Paras (Himachal Pradesh), Jay Shah (Maharashtra)
Men’s 400m
Amoj Jacob (Delhi), Muhammad Ajmal V (Services), Rajesh Ramesh (Tamil Nadu), Mijo Chacko (Services), Angrej Singh (Haryana), Nihal Joel (Karnataka)
Women’s 400m
Aishwarya Mishra (Maharashtra), Rupal Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh), Jyothi Kasri D (Andhra Pradesh), Vithya Ramraj (Tamil Nadu), Likitha M (Karnataka), Shubha Venkateshan (Tamil Nadu), Soniya Baishya (West Bengal), Florence Barla (Jharkhand)
Women’s 100m
Jyoti Yarraji (Andhra Pradesh), Archana Suseendran (Tamil Nadu), Diandra Valladares (Maharashtra), Srabani Nanda (Odisha), Hima Das (Assam), Dutee Chand (Odisha), Himashree Roy (West Bengal), Daneshwari A T (Karnataka)