Athletics
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 5:29 AM GMT
Here are the results of Preliminary round of men's 100m
Heat 1: Odisha’s Animesh Kujur dominated with a timing of 10.67s
Heat 2: Himachal Pradesh’s Paras topped his heat with 10.59s.
Heat 3: National record holder Gurindervir Singh of Reliance finished in 10.43.
Heat 4: Karnataka’s Manikanta Hobildhar clocked 10.52s.
The meet record is held by Amiya Kumar Mallick (10.26s) of New Delhi, who set it in 2016.
Semifinal lineup of men's 100m
- 21 April 2025 4:07 AM GMT
Maharashtra’s Sanjivani Baburao claims women’s 10,000m title!
Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav of Maharashtra crossed the finish line in 33:44.43s.
Medalists: Gold - Sanjivani Baburao- Maharashtra
Silver - Seema - Himachal Pradesh
Bronze - Beby - Uttar Pradesh
- 21 April 2025 4:00 AM GMT
Fed Cup: Sawan Barwal wins the men's 10,000m gold medal with a meet record!
Sawan broke an 18-year-old meet record to clinch the title by clocking a time of 28:57.13s. The record of 28:57.90s set in 2007 was held by Kolkata’s Surendra Singh.
Medalists: Gold - Sawan Barwal - Army
Silver - Abhishek Pal - Railways
Bronze - Kiran Matre - Army
Abhishek also breached the Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark of 29:33.26.
