2025 Federation Cup Day 3: Vithya Ramraj wins 400m hurdles, Tejaswin leads decathlon – Highlights
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Vithya Ramraj (Photo Credits: AP)
The penultimate day of the 2025 Federation Cup in Kochi, Kerala, took place on Wednesday
The likes of Vithya Ramraj, Sandra Babu, Krishan Kumar, Shankar Lal Swami, and others were in action throughout the day with medals on offer across multiple events.
The evening session saw finals in disciplines like women's triple jump, women's and men's 400m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase for both men and women, women's shot put, and men's hammer throw.
As it happened:
Standings after day 1
Tejaswin Shankar - 4164 Points
Usaid Khan - 3708 Points
Yamandeep Singh - 3690 Points
N Thowfeeq - 3689 Points
Jashbir Nayak - 3631 Points
Medalists:
Gold - Niharika Vashist - 13.49m
Silver - Sandra Babu - 13.48m
Bronze - Sheena NV - 13.25m
Gold - Manju Yadav - 10:34.08s
Silver - Nikita - 10:51.96s
Bronze - Chanchal - 11:10.40s
Medalists:
Gold - Sunil Joliya - 8:43.82s
Silver - Vikram Singh - 8:44.30s
Bronze - Rohit Verma - 8:44.80s
Vithya also cleared the Asian qualifying mark of 56.04. This is also the second-best timing in Asia this year.
Gold - Vithya Ramraj - 56.04s
Silver - Anu R - 58.26s
Bronze - Aswini R - 1:02.41s
Yashas clocked a personal best timing to clinch the gold medal. This is also a new Asian Lead timing for him.
However, he could not cross the Asian Championships Qualifying mark of 49.19s.
Gold - Yashas P - 49.32s
Silver - Subhas Das - 50.11
Bronze - Ruchit Mori - 51.08s
The qualifying mark for the Asian Championships in the women's triple jump is 13.68m.
This is a tough ask for the Indian athletes, as only three Indians have ever touched this mark of 13.68m in the all-time top list.
The current lead for India in 2025 is 13.37m of Niharika Vashist, who is also competing at the Federation Cup today and will be one of the favourites to win the title.
NV Sheena (PB - 13.60m) will also be among the ones to watch out for. However, she had a off season so far and have a sub-par season best of 13.19m.
Asian Games medalist Tejaswin Shankar is currently leading the Decathlon after the first three events in the morning session.
The fourth event will be his pet event, the men's high jump. He is also the National record holder in this discipline with 2.29m.
He will be hoping to reach near that mark today, and secure more points, which can help in breaching the Asian qualifying mark of 7527 Points.
Damneet could not breach the 70m mark but had a new personal best and also the current Indian lead for the year to clinch the gold medal in the men's hammer throw event.
Final results of the men's hammer throw
DAMNEET SINGH - 68.30 - Reliance
PRAVEEN KUMAR - 63.84 - Rajasthan
GURDEV SINGH - 60.78 - Punjab
PRADEEP SANGWAN - 60.24 - Army
SHANKAR NAGARAJAN - 59.54 - Tamil Nadu
AJAY BISHNOI - 58.10 - Gujarat
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