Inter-State Athletics C'ships 2025 Day-1 Highlights: Dhanalakshmi, Tamilarasu shine

Gowrinandana wins women's 400m semi-final 2

There was a long delay before the start of women's 400m semi-final 2. The athletes were called to the track before the stadium faced a power outage.

The power was back soon enough, but the race took a good 10 minutes to commence. Some technical glitch, it seems.

Once it started, Kerala's Gowrinandana raced to victory, clocking 54.40s ahead of the experienced Poovamma (54.52s). 

Devyaniba Zala wins women's 400m semi-final 1

Devyaniba Zala of Gujarat wins the first semi-final of women's 400m. She clocks 53.26s!

Manikanta Hoblidhar tops the men's 100m semi-finals standings wth a time of 10.32s

The former National record holder will be the top seed in the final and will face the challenge of Tamil Arasu, Amlan Borgoahain, for the National title.

The final eight of the 100m men's event:

Manikanta Hoblidhar - 10.32s

Tamil Arasu - 10.33s

Ragul Kumar G - 10.41s

Amlan Borghain - 10.46s

Harsh Raut - 10.49s

Sarun Payasingh - 10.54s

Mruty Dondapati - 10.56s

Rohit - 10.58s

Abinaya Rajarajan finishes the 100m semifinals at the top with a time of 11.67s

Abinaya qualified for the finals ahead of the experienced Srabani Nanda and Nithy Gandhe.

List of players who qualified for the women's 100m final

Abinaya Rajarajan - 11.67s

Nithya Gandhe - 11.69s

Dhana Lakshmi - 11.73s

Sneha SS - 11.79s

Sakshi Chavan - 11.82s

Srabani Nanda - 11.82s

Jilna M V - 11.83s

Sudeshna Shivankar - 11.94s

Up Next: - Women's 100m Semi-finals at 5:20 PM

The first action on the track in the evening session of the opening day will begin soon with the 100m women's semi-finals, featuring some top names like Abinaya Rajarajan and Nithya Gandhe.

The men's vault action began at the 4.30m mark and will further move ahead with a 20cm increment

Bineesh Jacob starts the 4.50m mark with a clean vault on his first attempt.

Up Next: - Men's Pole Vault final at 4:30 PM

There are 13 entries in the men's pole vault final, but it doesn't have the name of national record holder Dev Meena, who decided to skip the event.

In his absence, it will be a tough fight for the gold medal between M Gowtham, G Reegan, and rising star S.Kavinraja

Start List:

Harsh Raut leads the preliminary round of men's 100m to qualify for the semis

Harsh clocked 10.44s in heat 5 of the men's 100m preliminary round to top the charts and qualify for the semis.

Top 8 players from the preliminary round

Harsh Raut - 10.44s

Tamil Arasu - 10.53s

M Dondapati - 10.59s

Amlan Borgohain - 10.60s

Ragul Kumar G - 10.60s

Sarun Payasingh - 10.61s

Manikanta H - 10.62s

Amlan Borgohain - 10.66s

Abhishek Pal wins the first gold medal of the competition in men's 10,000m

In a slow final, Uttar Pradesh's Abhishek clocked 30:56.64s to clinch the men's 10,000m title, finishing just one second ahead of Shivaji Parasu, who finished second with 30:57.69s.

Another athlete from Uttar Pradesh, 22-year-old Shivam, won the bronze medal with a time of 30:59.14s.

There will be 7 finals on the opening day of the competition

Schedule for the day: