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National Open Athletics Championships:<\/b>  Teenage hammer thrower Anushka Yadav breaks meet record on the penultimate day of the 65th National Open Athletics Championships here at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Saturday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Anushka, 18, hurled the iron ball to a distance of 66.53m to improve on the five-year-old previous meet record of 64.42m in the name of Manju Bala. The promising teenager was the outright winner from her first throw. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Asian Games 2026 bronze medallist in women\u2019s pole vault, Baranica Elangovan (Railway), was a comfortable winner here on Saturday. Her best jump was 4.10m <\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Results (Day 3):<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Men:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

5,000m: Sunil Dawar (Madhya Pradesh) 14:01.64 secs, Shivaji M (Railway) 14:02.81, Ajay Bind (Railway) 14:03.86.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

High Jump: Rohit (Railway) 2.19m, Jesse Sandesh (Railway) 2.16m, Aaditya Raghuvanshi (Madhya Pradesh) 2.16m<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Shot put: Karanveer Singh (Punjab) 19.63m, Sanyam (Railway) 18.32m, Anurag Kaler (Railway) 18.32m<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

4x100m relay: SSCB 39.76 seconds, Railway 40.75 seconds, Haryana 41.37 seconds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Women: <\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

10,000m: Shampa Gain (West Bengal) 35:33.90, Soniya (Uttarakhand) 35:35.36, Mamta (All India Police) 35:38.25.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Long jump: Mubassina Mohammed (ONGC) 6.38m, Shaili Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 6.37m, Nidhi (Uttar Pradesh) 6.28m.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Pole vault: Baranica Elangovan (Railway) 4.10m, Mariya Jaison (Railway) 3.90m, Sindhushree G (Karnataka) 3.80m.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Hammer throw: Anushka Yadav (ONGC) 66.53m (meet record), Haqikat Grewal (Punjab) 56.14m, Kulvinder (Railway) 55.22m<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Javelin throw: Ramyashree Jain (Railway) 56.63m, Sanjana Choudhary (Rajasthan) 56.12m, Deepika (Haryana) 54.07m.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

4x100m relay: Railway 45.56 seconds, Odisha 45.57 seconds, Tamil Nadu 46.03 seconds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Javelin throw: Ramyashree Jain (Railway) 56.63m, Sanjana Choudhary (Rajasthan) 56.12m, Deepika (Haryana) 54.07m.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Also Read: <\/b> Special Cricket Stories<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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