Teenage hammer thrower Anushka Yadav improves meet record, pole vaulter Baranica Elangovan wins gold

New Delhi: Teenage hammer thrower Anushka Yadav broke the meet record on the penultimate day of the 65th National Open Athletics Championships here at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Saturday.

Anuksha, 18, hurled the iron ball to a distance of 66.53m to better the five-year-old meet record of 64.42m in the name of Manju Bala. The promising teenager was the outright winner from her first throw. She was steady in her performance on Saturday and had a series of 62.21m, 65.75m, 66.47m, F, 66.53, 65.25m. She has a personal best of 67.02m and finished fourth at the Asian Games 2026.

Asian Games 2026 bronze medallist in women’s pole vault, Baranica Elangovan (Railways) was a comfortable winner here on Saturday. Her best jump was 4.10m.

DAY 3 RESULTS:

Men

5,000m: Sunil Dawar (Madhya Pradesh) 14:01.64 secs, Shivaji M (Railway) 14:02.81, Ajay Bind (Railway) 14:03.86.

High Jump: Rohit (Railway) 2.19m, Jesse Sandesh (Railway) 2.16m, Aaditya Raghuvanshi (Madhya Pradesh) 2.16m

Shot put: Karanveer Singh (Punjab) 19.63m, Sanyam (Railway) 18.32m, Anurag Kaler (Railway) 18.32m

4x100m relay: SSCB 39.76 seconds, Railway 40.75 seconds, Haryana 41.37 seconds.

Women

10,000m: Shampa Gain (West Bengal) 35:33.90, Soniya (Uttarakhand) 35:35.36, Mamta (All India Police) 35:38.25.

Long jump: Mubassina Mohammed (ONGC) 6.38m, Shaili Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 6.37m, Nidhi (Uttar Pradesh) 6.28m.

Pole vault: Baranica Elangovan (Railway) 4.10m, Mariya Jaison (Railway) 3.90m, Sindhushree G (Karnataka) 3.80m.

Hammer throw: Anushka Yadav (ONGC) 66.53m (meet record), Haqikat Grewal (Punjab) 56.14m, Kulvinder (Railway) 55.22m

Javelin throw: Ramyashree Jain (Railway) 56.63m, Sanjana Choudhary (Rajasthan) 56.12m, Deepika (Haryana) 54.07m.

4x100m relay: Railway 45.56 seconds, Odisha 45.57 seconds, Tamil Nadu 46.03 seconds.

Mixed 4x400m relay: Railway 3:21,60 seconds, Haryana 3:22.43 seconds, Rajasthan 3:25.54 seconds.

Tags : Anushka Yadav, Baranica Elangovan, National Open Athletics, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium