Jyothi Yarraji broke the national women’s 100m hurdles record for the third time in two weeks.© Twitter
Jyothi Yarraji broke the national record for the women’s 100 meter hurdles for the third time in two weeks at the Harry Schulting Games 2022 in Vught. 22-year-old Jyothi clocked 13.04 seconds under a headwind speed of 1.4 m/s in the heats to beat her own previous national record of 13.11 achieved while winning the event at the Loughborough International Athletics Meet in the UK on Sunday.
The Andhra athlete, who trains under James Hillier at the Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High Performance Center in Bhubaneswar, had beaten Anuradha Biswal’s national figure of 13.38, which had stood since 2002.
That happened a month after her national record attempt was not counted due to wind assistance above the legal limit. She clocked 13.09 seconds at the Federation Cup in Kozhikode last month, but it was not counted as the national record because the wind speed was 2.1 m/s, more than the 2.0 m/s allowed.
Also in 2020, Jyothi had run under Biswal’s national record time when she clocked 13.03 seconds at the All India Inter-University Athletics Championships in Moodbidri, Karnataka.
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But it was also not counted as NR, as the National Anti-Doping Agency did not test her for the competition and there was no technical delegate from the Athletics Federation of India.
In other results, national record holder Siddhant Thingalaya finished third in the men’s 110m hurdles with a timing of 14.42 seconds.
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