Patiala: Dharun Ayyasamy of Tamil Nadu qualified for the Commonwealth Games shattering records on his way on the final day of the Run Adam Federation Cup here on Thursday.
Ayyasamy, who was part of the Indian 4x400m relay team at the Rio Olympics, recorded 49.45 seconds breaking the 11 year-old record of 49.51 seconds set by Joseph Abraham in Osaka in 2007.
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His qualifications also meant that as many as nine track and field Athletes have now qualified for the CWG Gild Coast starting April 4.
It was a good comeback for an athlete who after laying low with a virus in February could barely walk before the Federation Cup.
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“I am really happy with the result,” Ayyasamy said after the win according to a press release. “I was suffering from typhoid till ten days before of IGP. But i have worked hard with my coach to recover and train. It is a very good feeling to break national record and qualify for CWG.” He finished ahead of statemates T Santosh Kumar (50.14seconds) and M Ramachandran (51.61 seconds).
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Singh, earned the right to improve on the bronze medal he won in the triple jump at the Glasgow Games in 2014 by clearing 16.61m to finish 1 cm above the qualifying guidelines of 16.60m set by the AFI.
Hima Das of Assam, who had already qualified in the women’s 400m race earlier, blitzed the field in the 200m event winning in a credible time of 23.37seconds which was just.07 seconds shy of the meet record of 23.30 set by PT Usha in 1998. She however missed the CWG qualifying guidelines of 22.60 seconds, it was a credible performance by the 18 year old who finished more than a second clear of second place PJ Sneha (24.47 seconds).
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Jinson Johnson of Kerala was another such standout, who despite a good performance failed to qualify for the CWG. Johnson clocked 3.39:69 seconds which was just 9 seconds shy of the AFI qualifying guidelines of 3:39:50 seconds.
His timing was however a new record breaking the old mark of 3:41:12 seconds set 11 years ago by Chatholi Hamza. Johnson finished ahead of Manjit Singh and Bir Singh who clocked 3:42:24 seconds and 3:42:28 seconds respectively.