Priya Mohan wins 200m race at national inter-university championships; Dutee Chand pulls out
Dutee Chand participated in the semi-finals, finishing second behind Priya Mohan, but didn’t run in the final due to a niggle.
Upcoming Indian sprinter Priya Mohan bagged her second gold medal at the national inter-university women's athletics championships after winning the 200m race at the KIIT-KISS Stadium, Bhubaneswar, on Thursday.
The Karnataka sprinter had earlier won the 400m event.
With top draw Dutee Chand sitting out the finals with a niggle, Priya Mohan won the event, clocking 24.00 seconds - 0.04s more than her personal best. Madhumita Deb (24.26s) won silver while Preeti (24.51s) clinched bronze.
Earlier in the semi-finals, Priya Mohan had beaten Dutee Chand, who won gold in the 100m dash on Wednesday, by 0.06s with a timing of 24.46s.
Priya Mohan, 18, had narrowly missed out on a bronze at the World Under-20 Championships last year.
Long distance runner Komal Jagadale, meanwhile, added the women’s 5000m title to the 3000m steeple-chase gold she had won earlier in the week. Her timing of 16:04.75s was almost two seconds faster than the second-placed Bharti.
In the women’s 400m hurdle, Arathi R won gold with a timing of 58.35s.
Two-time Olympian Dutee Chand was adjudged the best athlete at the event with 1114 points.