Jyothi Yarraji breaks 60m hurdles national record, again
Jyothi Yarraji clocked a time of 8.17 seconds to finish second at the Elite Indoor Track Miramas athletics meeting in France.
Athletics
India’s Jyothi Yarraji broke the women’s 60m hurdles national record for the third time in two weeks after she clocked 8.17 seconds to finish second during an indoor athletics meet in France on Friday.
At the Elite Indoor Track Miramas, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze level event, Jyothi Yarraji eclipsed her own record by one-hundredth of a second, set during the qualifiers of the same event earlier in the day. Dafni Georgiou of Cyprus won the race in a photo finish with an identical time of 6.17s. Georgiou was declared the winner as she had a faster reaction time (0.145) than Yarraji (0.175).
Late last month, Jyothi Yarraji broke the seven-year-old national record for the women's 60m hurdles event with a run of 8.20 seconds at an athletics meet in Denmark. She is also the national record holder in the women’s 100m hurdles event, breaking the mark multiple times.
Competing in the men’s 60m, Amlan Borgohain, the Indian national record holder in the men’s 100m and 200m, failed to make the cut for the final after clocking 6.95s in the qualifying.
Last Saturday, both Yarraji and Borgohain competed at the Meeting Internacional Catalunya Pista Coberta, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger level meet, in Sabadell, Spain.
There, Amlan Borgohain finished fourth in the men’s 60m with a time of 6.87 seconds. In the women’s 60m hurdles, Jyothi Yarraji clocked 8.35 seconds to finish sixth in her final. She had recorded a time of 8.22s in the semis.
A few days earlier, the Indian duo took part at the Aarhus Sprint'n'Jump athletics meet in Denmark.
There, Jyothi Yarraji set the new women’s 60m hurdles national record for the first time. Borgohain, meanwhile, ran the men’s 60m in 6.86 seconds, just shy of the national record of 6.67s set by VK Elakkiadasan at the 2018 Asian Championships in Tehran, Iran.
Both Yarraji and Borgohain are a part of the 26-member Indian squad for the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, which will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan later this month.