Jyothi Yarraji: Jyothi Yarraji smashed the women’s 100m hurdle national record for the second time in less than two weeks while winning the event at the Loughborough International Athletics Meet in the UK on Sunday. Follow sports NEWS and LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN
Jyothi Yarraji: Super Athlete Jyothi Yarraji smashes her own 100m hurdle record in United Kingdom
The 22-year-old Jyothi clocked 13.11 seconds under permissible wind speed of +0.3m/s to better her own earlier national record of 13.23 she had clocked on May 10 during the Cyprus International Meet in Limassol.
Jyothi Yarraji: Super Athlete Jyothi Yarraji smashes her own 100m hurdle record in United Kingdom
In 2020 also, Jyothi had run below Biswal’s national record time as she clocked 13.03 seconds at the All India Inter-University Athletics Championships in Moodbidri, Karnataka.
But it was also not counted as NR as National Anti-Doping Agency did not test her at the meet and there was no technical delegate from the Athletics Federation of India.
Jyothi comes from a humble background as her father Suryanarayana is working as a private security guard and her mother Kumari is a domestic help.
Jyothi Yarraji: Super Athlete Jyothi Yarraji smashes her own 100m hurdle record in United Kingdom
The 24-year-old from Assam had clocked 20.52s in Kozhikode.
In other results, national record holder Siddhant Thingalaya finished second in 110m hurdles with a time of 13.97.
Graceson Amaldas, national swimmer-turned-hurdler from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu won junior men’s 110m hurdles guest race in 13.91 seconds.