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Federation Cup 2025 Day 1 Highlights: Pranav Pramod, Sachin Yadav shine
Highlights from Day 1 of 2025 Federation Cup in Kochi, Kerala.
Federation Cup 2025 Day 1 LIVE (Photo credit: Licensible)
2025 Federation Cup Highlights: The 2025 Federation Cup began in Kochi, Kerala on Monday.
In major results, the unknown Pranav Pramod stunned the more fancied Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidar, and national record holder Gurindervir Singh to win the men's 100m title.
Nithya Gandhe took home the women's 100m title ahead of Abhinaya and Sneha earlier in the day.
Later, Sachin Yadav emerged the men's javelin throw champion with a throw of 83.86m ahead of Yashvir Singh's 80.85m.
Pavitra Venkatesh won the women's pole vault title, while Lily Das emerged the women's 1500m champion.
Highlights:
Live Updates
- 21 April 2025 2:09 PM GMT
Here's the list of men's Long Jump finalists!
Here's the list of men's Long Jump finalists. The final will played on Tuesday at 3:45PM.
- 21 April 2025 2:04 PM GMT
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That's all we have from the opening day of the 2025 Federation Cup in Kochi, Kerala. Thank you for joining into our coverage. See you tomorrow.
- 21 April 2025 12:39 PM GMT
Sachin Yadav of Police won the men’s javelin gold with a throw of 83.86m as seven throwers breach qualification mark!
Medalists: Gold - Sachin Yadav - Police
Silver - Yashvir Singh - Railways
Bronze - Sahil Silwal - Reliance
Seven javelin throwers breached the Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark of 75.36m. Kishore Jena of Odisha finished fourth with a throw of 77.82m.
- 21 April 2025 12:30 PM GMT
Yoonus Shah wins the men’s 1500m race!
Yoonus Shah of JSW is the winner of the men’s 1500m race, clocking 3:41.93.
Medalists: Gold - Yoonus Shah - JSW
Silver - Ajay Kumar - Uttar Pradesh
Bronze - Narender Singh - Haryana
Yoonus Shah qualified for the Asian Athletics Championships. The qualification mark in this event stood at 3:42.30.
- 21 April 2025 12:26 PM GMT
Pavithra Venkatesh wins the women’s Pole Vault title!
Pavithra Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu won the women’s pole vault with 4.00m.
Medalists: Gold - Pavithra Venkatesh - Tamil Nadu
Silver - Baranica Elangovan - Tamil Nadu
Bronze - Vanshika Ghanghas - Haryana
The qualification mark in this event was 4.10m.
- 21 April 2025 11:55 AM GMT
Lily Das of Uttarakhand wins the women’s 1500m race!
Lily Das is the winner of the women’s 1500m race, clocking 4:10.88s.
Medalists: Gold - Lily Das - Uttarakhand
Silver - Pooja - Haryana
Bronze - Kajal Ranganath - Gujarat
Lily and Pooja (4:12.56s) have both breached the Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark of this event was 4:15.00.
- 21 April 2025 11:51 AM GMT
Railways Pranav Pramod takes men’s 100m title!
Railways Pranav Pramod is the men’s 100m champion with a timing of 10.27. Pranav missed the Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark of 10.25s by 0.02s.
Medalists: Gold - Pranav Pramod - Railways
Silver - Animesh Kujur - Odisha
Bronze - Manikanta Hoblidar - Karnataka.
National record holder Gurindervir Singh of Reliance struggled as he finished eighth with a time of 11.21s.
- 21 April 2025 11:14 AM GMT
Telangana’s Nithya Gandhe claims women’s 100m title!
Telangana's Nithya Gandhe is the women’s 100m champion with a timing of 11.50s. Nithya narrowly missed the Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark of 11.46s.
Medalists: Gold - Nithya Gandhe - Telangana
Silver - Abinaya Rajara - Tamil Nadu
Bronze - Sneha SS - Karnataka
- 21 April 2025 11:04 AM GMT
Here's the Women’s 400m Preliminary round results.
Heat 1: Tamil Nadu’s R Vithya Ramraj clocked 52.84s.
Heat 2: Uttar Pradesh’s Rupal topped with 52.65s.
Heat 3: Kerala’s Sneha K finished with a timing of 53.36s.
The final will take place on Tuesday at 5:05PM.
The Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark in this event stands at 53.80s.
