Long jumper Shaili Singh wins gold on final day of National Open Athletics Championships

Her final jump, her second longest leap ever, provided a golden touch to the final day's proceedings. The 18-year-old Uttar Pradesh athlete's opening effort of 6.25m was better than the 6.22m that Kerala jumpers Sruthi Lekshmi and Nayana James managed across their six tries each. In the men's 200m, Tamil Nadu's Ragul Kumar ran his first sub-21 second race as he won in 20.87 seconds, the third fastest time by an Indian this year behind the 20.52 and 20.55 clocked by Amlan Borgohain in the Federation Cup in April and the National Games earlier this month.

Gujarat's Murli Kumar Gavit won the men's 10,000m, his first national crown in four years since claiming the distance double in Bhubaneswar in September 2018. Akita Dhyani (Railways) made her maiden 10,000m race at the national level a memorable one by winning it in 34:39.05. The 35km men's and women's race walk events produced meet records for Ram Baboo (Uttar Pradesh) and Payal (Uttarakhand).

Ram Baboo improved his own mark by more than seven minutes by winning in 2 hours 29 minutes and 5 seconds. Payal beat the record holder Ramandeep Kaur and her mark set last year by more than 10 minutes in winning in 3 hours 4 minutes 48 seconds. Hammer thrower K M Rachna (Uttar Pradesh) marked her returned to competition with three efforts over 60m, including a personal best of 63.66m, to beat national record holder Sarita Romit Singh.