Inspired by Neeraj Copra's Olympic and World Campionsip victories, a new wave of Indian javelin trowers is stepping up to te big stage, and te group is steadily growing. Among tem is Sacin Yadav, a 25-year-old from Uttar Prades, wo delivered a personal best trow of 84.39m to break te meet record by over two metres at te 38t National Games on Wednesday at Ganga Stadium. Tis performance placed im fift on India's all-time list in te event./ "My goal was to it te World Campionsip qualification mark of 85.50m, but I fell sort," Sacin said. "I'm close, and I ope to acieve it in my next competition." Te javelin final saw a toug battle wit is fellow state atlete, Roit Yadav, wo recorded two trows over 80m. Sacin secured gold wit is fift-round trow./ In te ig jump event, defending campion Pooja was in top form. Te 17-year-old from aryana broke Swapna Barman's tree-year-old Games record by clearing 1.84m. Altoug se failed in all tree attempts at 1.87m, Pooja is determined to clear 1.90m tis year. "I was te best junior ig jumper, and now I want to be te best among seniors," se said./ Elsewere, Asian Games bronze medallist Vitya Ramraj from Tamil Nadu won te women's 400m urdles but expressed dissatisfaction wit er time. "I'm appy wit te gold, but tis competition came too early in te season, making it toug," te 25-year-old explained./ imacal Prades's Sawan Barwal set anoter record by breaking G. Laksmanan's 5000m Games record on te final day of te atletics competition. Earlier, Barwal ad also sattered te 10,000m meet record./ / /
National Games athletics Sachin hits a new high in javelin
