Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 21 (ANI): Vishal TK broke the nationwide report with a elegant efficiency within the males’s 400m occasion on the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2025 on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Thursday.
Visha, a 21-year-old Indian athlete, blazed his strategy to the highest of the rostrum and clinched the gold medal after clocking 45.12 seconds, toppling the earlier nationwide mark of 45.21 seconds, held by Muhammed Anas Yahiya on the 2019 Czech Athletics Championships, in keeping with Olympics.com.
Paris 2024 Olympian Rajesh Ramesh (46.04s) and Vikrant Panchal (46.17s) settled silver and bronze, respectively. Vishal was part of the Indian relay groups that gained the gold medal within the blended 4x400m and silver within the males’s 4x400m on the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Gumi, Republic of Korea, earlier in May.
He missed out on a person medal in Gumi by a whisker after ending fourth within the males’s 400m with a time of 45.57 seconds, which turned out to be his earlier private greatest.
The sixty fourth version of the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships serves as the ultimate qualifying occasion for Indian athletes earlier than the World Championships in Tokyo, scheduled to be held from September 13 to 21. The entry mark for Tokyo 25 in males’s 400m was 44.85 seconds. The qualifying window closes on Sunday.
Top stars, together with Asian Games champion Annu Rani (javelin throw), Animesh Kujur (males’s 200m), Murali Sreeshankar (lengthy soar), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shot put), Tejaswin Shankar (excessive soar) and Praveen Chithravel (triple soar), will probably be in motion later this week.
National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2025 Day 2 outcomes:Women’s pole vault: 1. Baranica Elangovan (4.10m); 2. Mariya Jaison (4.05m); 3. Sathya Tamilarasan (4.00m)Men’s 400m: Vishal T.Okay (45.12s); 2. Rajesh Ramesh (46.04s); 3. Vikrant Panchal (46.17s)Women’s shot put: 1. Kachnar Chaudhary (15.75m); 2. Vidhi (15.30m); 3. Shiksha (15.18m)Women’s 400m: 1. Devyaniba Zala (53.37s); 2. Anankha B.A (53.84s); 3. Prachi (53.96s)Men’s discus throw: 1. Kirpal Singh (55.00m); 2. Nirbhay Singh (53.62m); 3. Ujjawal Choudhary (53.23m)Men’s 1500m: 1. Yoonus Shah (3:41.22); 2. Ajay Saroj (3:41.55); 3. Arjun Waskale (3:42.86)Women’s 1500m: 1. Pooja (4:10.68); 2. Lili Das (4:12.47); 3. Amandeep Kaur (4:21.37)Men’s decathlon: 1. Stalin Joes (7052 pts); 2. Kushal Mohite (6976 pts); 3. Kamal Dhankh (6820 pts). (ANI)