Federation Cup Athletics: Tajinder Pal Singh clinches gold, Jeswin Aldrin wins long jump -Highlights
Catch all the highlights from the day three action from the Federation Cup Athletics in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Tajinderpal Singh Toor is an Asian Games gold medal-winning shot putter. (FILE PHOTO)
The day three of Federation Cup Athletics went underway with few more star athletes performing in different events. The main attraction of the day, Tajinderpal Singh Toor took part in the men's shot Put event and clinches gold with a new season best throw of 20.38m.
While, Long Jumper Jeswin Aldrin tried to make full use of his first tournament at the outdoor season which could have push him up in the race to paris rankings but he feel just short of 8m mark and wins gold with his season best of 7.99m jump.
Another eye catching event was in 400m semi-finals when the top Indian quarter runners were in action fresh from their Olympic quota feat earlier this month. Muhammed Ajmal V with the fastest time by an Indian (46.13) this year in men 400m came out as a star man.
As it happened:
Gold - Chhavi Yadav - Madhya Pradesh - 10:07.57 (SB)
Silver - Komal Chandrakant Jagadale - Maharashtra - 10:18.69 (SB )
Bronze - Manju Ajay Yadav - Madhya Pradesh - 10:19.21 (SB)
Here is the lineup for women's 3000m Steeplechase final. The nine Indian runners are taking part sighting for that gold medal.
Ajmal and Santosh Kumar booked their spot in the final of men's 400m with the good timings.
Aakash Babu (47.21) of Tamil Nadu and Mijo Chako (47.32) of Karnataka took the final two spots of the final as a lucky loser
Povamma with 52.87 and Vithya Ramraj with 52.98 seconds won the top two places in the heat with the direct spot in the final
Summy (53.18 seconds) of Haryana and Jisna Mathew (54.06 seconds) of Kerala also reached the final from the heat-3 as two best lucky losers.