NEW DELHI: Long jumper
Nayana James
continued her impressive form, securing a gold medal at the Taiwan
Athletics
Open in Taipei on Sunday.
Despite the rainy conditions, the 28-year-old athlete achieved her best jump of the day, measuring 6.43m, in her third attempt at the World Athletics Continental Tour bronze level event.
The mark was her personal best outside India, with her overall personal best standing at 6.67m, which she recorded while winning gold at the Indian Open Jumps competition in March.
Nayana had also clinched gold at the Federation Cup last month with a jump of 6.53m.
Rising Indian sprinter
Animesh Kujur
also emerged victorious in the men's 200m race at the Trofeo de Atletismo Ciudad de Salamanca-Memorial Carlos Gil Perez athletics meet in Spain.
The 21-year-old clocked a time of 20.59 seconds to win the race at the Helmantico Stadium in Salamanca on Saturday. However, the wind speed of +4.9 m/s was not legal, as the maximum permitted wind speed is +2.0 m/s.
Animesh's previous personal best was 20.62 seconds, which he had achieved while winning gold in the Federation Cup in Bhubaneswar earlier this month.
Spain's Daniel Rodriguez Serrano (20.85s) and Mauro Triana López (21.27s) secured second and third places, respectively.
The men's 200m national record of 20.52 seconds is held by Amlan Borgohain, set two years ago, while the Paris Olympics qualification time stands at 20.16 seconds.
Prior to his 200m victory, Animesh had also impressed in the men's 100m race, running a personal best time of 10.27 seconds to finish fourth, just four-hundredths of a second short of the national record set by Manikanta Hoblidhar last year.
In other events, Tejas Shirse, the national record holder in the 110m hurdles, clocked 13.57 seconds to secure second place in the same World Athletics Category F meet in Salamanca, Spain. Shirse had recently set the men's 110m hurdles national record of 13.41 seconds during a World Athletics Continental Tour (Challenger level) meeting in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Meanwhile, at the Limoges National Meeting in France, a World Athletics Category D event, Commonwealth Games triple jump gold medallist Eldhose Paul claimed the top spot with a jump of 16.24m, and Jesse Sandesh leapt 2.18m to win the high jump title.
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