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Jyothi Yarraji smashes own 100m hurdles national record in UK
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. 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. The Andhra athlete, who trains under Joseph Hillier at Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High Performance Centre in Bhubaneswar, had bettered Anuradha Biswal's national mark of 13.38 which had stood since 2002.
Jyothi Yarraji breaks 100m hurdles National Record in Cyprus meet
National Record (NR) effort was not counted due to wind assistance beyond legal limit, 100m hurdler Jyothi Yarraji has smashed the NR while winning an event in Cyprus with a timing of 13.23 seconds. The 22-year-old Andhra athlete on Tuesday won the gold in Cyprus International Meet at Limassol under a head wind speed of 0.1m/s. The old national record of 13.38 seconds was in the name of Anuradha Biswal since 2002.
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Jyothi wins 100m hurdles gold but misses NR due to wind-aided effort
Jyothi Yarraji grabbed the gold medal but her time did not enter the record books. Jyothi, who trains in Bhubaneshwar, dominated the women's 100m hurdles final, winning with a wind-aided time of 13.08 seconds, faster than the existing national record of 13.38 in the name of Anuradha Biswal since 2002. Jyothi's time will not be considered as a national record since there was a tail-wind of 2.1m/s, slightly above the permitted limit of 2m/s.
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