Sarvesh Kushare broke the Indian high jump record with 2.31m, and Ancy Sojan set a new women's long jump record with 6.88m, surpassing Anju Bobby George's 22-year mark, at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar.
16-year-old Zhang Keyi sets new meet record in women’s 100m hurdles at Asian U20 Athletics Championships with 13.38s, winning gold ahead of Japan’s Nana Ishihara and Kazakhstan’s Alina Golovina.
Ancy Sojan won gold in the long jump at the National Senior Athletics Federation Competition with a leap of 6.75m, setting a new personal best and meet record. She overcame a hormonal issue that made weight loss difficult, requiring strict diet and training discipline.
Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey has broken the meet record in the women’s 200m freestyle at the Bergen Swim Festival in Norway. Haughey’s time of one minute, 54.31 seconds not only won gold but was also her fastest time in almost two years. The previous meet record of 1:54.77 was set by Haughey’s Swedish rival Sarah Sjostrom. Haughey’s swim also moved her to third-fastest in the world this season, and is just 0.39 seconds off her own Asian record of 1:53.92, which she set at the Tokyo Olympics in...
