India’s Parul Chaudhary wins 3000m steeplechase title at New York athletics meet
The Indian athlete, who broke the women’s 5000m national record earlier this month, clocked 9:41.88 and made the cut for the Asian Athletics Championships.
Athletics
Indian long distance runner Parul Chaudhary won the women’s 3000m steeplechase event at the Track Night NYC 2023 athletics meet in New York, USA, on Friday.
Parul Chaudhary, who broke the women’s 5000m national record in a meet in Los Angeles earlier this month, clocked 9:41.88 at the Icahn Stadium to record her first title of the season. The Track Night NYC is a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze-level event.
The 28-year-old Parul Chaudhary also managed to comfortably breach the qualifying mark of 9:58.55s in the women’s 3000m steeplechase for the Asian Athletics Championships, to be held later this year.
The standing national record in the women’s 3000m steeplechase is 9:19.76, held by Lalita Babar. Parul’s own personal best in the event is 9:38.09 - more than three seconds better than her run on Friday.
Lili Das, competing in the seeded women’s 1500m race at the NYC athletics meet, clocked a season’s best 4:15.23 to finish third. Alexina Teubel of the USA won the event with a timing of 4:07.68.
In the men’s 1500m, Ajay Kumar Saroj clocked a time of 3:41.28 to finish eighth. Shankar Lal Swami, meanwhile, did not finish (DNF) the men's 3000m steeplechase.
Parul Chaudhary and the other Indian athletes are currently training and competing in the USA.