Bhubaneswar: Rajasthan’s 18 years old Basant was among those athletes who narrowly missed the World U20 Athletics Championships qualification mark on the third day of the 40th national Junior Athletics Championships here at Kalinga Stadium on Sunday.
Competing in the men's U20 group, Basant won gold with a height of 2.11m and fell short of the 2.12m qualification mark World U20 Athletics Championships scheduled to be held in Oregon, USA in 2026.
Basant’s team-mate Narpat Singh was also a bit disappointed for missing the mark in the hammer throw. Singh won hammer throw gold in men’s U20 group with a distance of 67.45m while the World U20 qualification mark was 68m.
Day 3 Results:
Men:
U20: High jump: Basant (Rajasthan) 2.11m, Sagar Roy (West Bengal) 2.09m, Afroz Ahmad (Jharkhand) 2.03m
U20: Hammer throw: Narpat Singh (Rajasthan) 67.45m, Kartik (Uttar Pradesh) 66.40m, Aakash (Rajasthan) 65.60m.
U20: 5,000m race walk: Amit Kumar (Chhattisgarh) 19:47.76 seconds, Ashish Yadav (Madhya Pradesh) 19:49.99 seconds, Sachin (Haryana) 19:59.48 seconds.
U18: Boys: Shot put: Nishchay (Haryana) 19.48m, Harpartap Singh (Punjab) 18.03m, Parth Solanki (Delhi) 17.58m.
U18: Long jump: Shivam Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 7.34m, Deepak Munda (Jharkhand) 7.23m, Manvith N (Karnataka) 7.18m.
U16: Boys: High jump: Sakthivel VN (Tamil Nadu) 1.81m, Kingshuk Paul (West Bengal) 1.78m, Muhammed Rabeeh (Kerala) 1.78m.
Women
U20: 3000m: Sonam Parmar (Madhya Pradesh) 10:01.46 seconds, Tanisha (Haryana) 10:06.85 seconds, Soniya Upadhyay (Uttar Pradesh) 10:12.21 seconds.
U20: Triple jump: Paveena Rajesh (Tamil Nadu) 12.42m, Tamanna (Haryana) 12.34m, Janice Tressa R (Kerala) 12.29m.
U20: Hammer throw (4kg): Gunjan Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 47.78m, Ramisha Makvana (Gujarat) 46.98m, Ridhima (Rajasthan) 45.86m.
U20: 5,000m race walk: Manisha (Rajasthan) 23:43.58 seconds, Tanya (Delhi) 23:43.91 seconds, Savitaben Chauhan (Gujarat) 23:57.90 seconds.
U16: High jump: Abiya Ann Gigi (Kerala) 1.56m (meet record. previous record of 1.52m by Y Potanapalli in 2024), Dhanya S (Tamil Nadu) 1.53m, Nivetha S (Tamil Nadu) 1.50m.
U14: Kids javelin: Aaradhya Singh (Haryana) 38.64m, Kuni Rajgond Hari R (Odisha) 37.55m, Anushri Biswas (West Bengal) 36.56m.
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