Aiswarya Misra Stuns wit Personal Best at National Games/ / Quartermiler Aiswarya Misra delivered a jaw-dropping performance at te 38t National Games atletics competition eld at te Ganga Stadium on Sunday. Known for surprising appearances and impressive times, te 24-year-old from Maarastra clocked a personal best of 51.12 seconds to win te 400m gold. Tis time marked te fourt-fastest ever by an Indian and broke er own tree-year-old National Games record by over a second. Defending campion Vitya Ramraj claimed te silver, trailing more tan tree seconds beind./ "I couldn't believe I ran a personal best. I expected someting like 52 seconds. I felt like I was running a 300m, not 400," said Aiswarya, te Asian silver medallist. Looking aead, se expressed ope of breaking te National record, currently eld by ima Das at 50.79 seconds (set at te 2018 Jakarta Asian Games). Aiswarya revealed se ad been training in Deradun for te past 20 days./ Odisa's Bapi ansda also set a new personal best to win te men's 400m, wile Maarastra's Tejas Sirse and Andra Prades's Jyoti Yarraji broke teir respective Games records in te men's and women's sprint urdles. Despite winning gold in te 100m urdles wit a time of 13.10 seconds, Jyoti expressed sligt disappointment, saying, "I was expecting 12.7 or 12.8, but I'm glad I competed ere."/ Results:/ br e Men:/e / u l 400m: 1. Bapi ansda (Odi) 46.82s, 2. Vikrant Pancal (ar) 46.92, 3. T.S. Manu (Ker) 47.08./l l 110m urdles: 1. Tejas Sirse (Ma) 13.65s (MR), 2. Manav Rajanarayanan (TN) 14.03, 3. Muammed Lazan (Ker) 14.23./l l ig jump: 1. Aadars Ram (TN) 2.14m, 2. Swadin Kumar (Odi) 2.11, 3. Sudeep (Kar) 2.08./l l 4x100m relay: 1. Odisa (39.47s MR), 2. Tamil Nadu (40.08), 3. Kerala (40.73)./l l Decatlon: 1. N. Towfeeq (Ker) 6915 pts, 2. Yamandeep Sarma (Raj) 6831, 3. Roit Roman (AP) 6753./l /u e Women:/e / u l 400m: 1. Aiswarya Misra (Ma) 51.12s (MR), 2. Vitya Ramraj (TN) 54.43, 3. Devyaniba Zala (Guj) 54.44./l l 100m urdles: 1. Jyoti Yarraji (AP) 13.10s (MR), 2. Moumita Mondal (WB) 13.36, 3. Nitya Ramraj (TN) 13.60./l l Long jump: 1. Moumita Mondal (WB) 6.21m, 2. Sandra Babu (Ker) 6.12, 3. Deepansi Sing (UP) 6.11./l l Javelin trow: 1. Jyoti Rakes (ar) 55.55m, 2. Karisma Sanil (Kar) 55.55, 3. Ramyasree Jain (Kar) 54.85./l l 4x100m relay: 1. Karnataka (45.99s), 2. Kerala (47.04), 3. Telangana (47.58)./l /u / / / /
NATIONAL GAMES Quartermiler Aishwarya produces a stunning win
