Athletics
Federation Cup 2025: Jyothi Yarraji & Dev Meena bag top honours - HIGHLIGHTS
The latter set a new men's pole vault National Record on Day 2.

Jyothi Yarraji (left) picked up gold in the women's 100m hurdles on Tuesday. (File photo)
2025 Federation Cup: Track and field actions continued on on day 2 of the Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships 2025 in Kochi on Tuesday.
Several crucial finals took place — including men's pole vault, discus throw, and 400m races.
In major results, Dev Meena bettered his own pole vault national record with a jump of 5.35m. And Jyothi Yarraji overcame injury woes to claim women's 100m hurdles.
As it happened...
Live Updates
- 22 April 2025 11:11 AM GMT
Jyothi Yarraji won the women’s 100m Hurdles title, qualifies for Asian Athletics Championships!
Jyothi Yarraji of Reliance cross the finish line in 13.23!
Medalists: Gold - Jyothi Yarraji - Reliance
Silver - Pragyan Prasad - Odisha
Bronze - Nithya Ramraj - Tamil Nadu
The Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark in this event stands at 13.26s.

- 22 April 2025 11:01 AM GMT
Tejas Shirse shines in the men’s 110m Hurdles final!
Maharashtra’s Tejas Shirse claims the men’s 100m hurdles title with a time of 13.65s.
Medalists: Gold - Tejas Shirse - Maharashtra
Silver - Manav R - Railways
Bronze - Muhammed Lazan - JSW
The Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark in men’s 110m Hurdles stands at 13.56s.
#News | Tejas Shirse wins men's 110m hurdles at 2025 Federation Cup🔥
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The national record holder clocks 13.65s to walk home with the title🥇
🥈Manav R 13.94s
🥉Muhammed Lazan 14.17s#IndianAthletics pic.twitter.com/NmLDgaOFZh - 22 April 2025 10:31 AM GMT
Nirbhay Singh of Haryana won the men’s discus throw final.
Nirbhay Singh of Haryana won the men’s discus throw final with a throw of 58.13m!
Medalists: Gold - Nirbhay Singh - Haryana
Silver - Abhimanyu - JSW
Bronze - Bhartpreet Singh - Reliance
The Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark in men’s long jump stands at 59.63m.

- 22 April 2025 9:15 AM GMT
Men's Discus Throw gets underway.
The Asian Athletics Championships qualification mark in men’s discus throw stands at 59.63m.
Vikas Gowda holds the national record of 66.28m set in 2012.
- 22 April 2025 9:01 AM GMT
Welcome back!
The men's pole vault action is about to begin! The finalists are getting ready.
- 22 April 2025 6:41 AM GMT
The Making of Dev Meena
Dev Meena is one of the fastest rising track and field athletes in India. The national record holder in men's pole vault will be in action today.
The Bridge made a visit to his home in Silphodkheda, Madhya Pradesh to trace his origins. Watch the video here:
- 22 April 2025 3:55 AM GMT
Tejas Shirse qualifies for men's 110m hurdles final
National record and meet record holder Tejas Shirse qualified for the men's 110m hurdles final. The heats were held earlier in the day.
Tejas clocked 13.62s to win the second heat and was the fastest athlete on display by a distance. The second best was Rathish Pandidurai, who clocked 14.21s.
Here's how the line-up for men's 110m final looks like:

- 22 April 2025 3:51 AM GMT
Goood Morning!
Hello and welcome to The Bridge's LIVE coverage of the 2025 Federation Cup from Kochi, Kerala.
The Day 2 of the competition will see the likes of national record holders Jeswin Aldrin, Dev Meena and others in action.
Stay tuned for all the LIVE updates!

