Beirut [Lebanon], July 22 (ANI): Indian athletes Annu Rani and Kishore Jena bagged gold medals within the males’s and girls’s javelin throw occasions, respectively, on the Lebanon Athletics Championships 2023 in Beirut on Friday.
As per Olympics.com, Annu Rani recorded a finest throw of 55.32m to prime the six-woman subject. Even although, her effort was removed from her nationwide record-setting mark of 63.82m which she achieved final yr.
The Athletics Federation of India took to Twitter to announce the results of the Championship.
Annu Rani has not crossed the 60m mark in 4 competitions because the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, the place she received the bronze medal.
Annu Rani’s distance at Lebanon Athletics Championships was greater than double of what silver medallist Lynn Nader (26.48m) managed to realize.
On the opposite hand, within the males’s occasion, Kishore Jena achieved a distance of 78.96m to clinch the gold medal. He didn’t get previous his private finest distance of 82.87, which he achieved in Bhubaneshwar final month. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Shivpal Singh received the silver with a 73.34m throw.
Seven males competed within the males’s javelin occasion. Nabil Al-Akoumi was third with 59.79mTokyo Olympics champion Neeraj Chopra holds India’s nationwide report in males’s javelin throw along with his 89.94m mark, registered on the 2022 Stockholm Diamond League in Sweden. (ANI)