Murali Sreeshankar and Jyothi Yarraji start domestic season with gold medals at Indian Grand Prix 3

On the other hand, Assam sprinter Amlan Borgohain, and 100m hurdler Jyothi Yarraji started the domestic season with gold medals. Borgohain claimed the 100m-200m double. He won the 100m race with a timing of 10.50, with Amiya Kumar Mallick coming in second position. In the 200m, he took the title with a timing of 21.20 seconds.

But the biggest highlight of the day came when reigning national record holder Yarraji cruised to a 13.44-second win in the 100m hurdles for women. In the 400m section, Aishwarya Mishra of Maharashtra became the third Indian to clock a sub-54 second time. She won the event on Monday with a timing of 53.63 seconds.

Muhammed Ajmal won the men’s quarter-mile in 46.63 seconds, his best effort of the year and the third time he has gone below 47 seconds in 2023.

Hima Das, who had to endure a disqualification for a false start in the Indian Grand Prix 2 in Thiruvananthapuram, bounced back to win the women’s 200m while GK Vijayakumari of Karnataka returned to a national-level 800m after five years and beat Madhya Pradesh’s KM Deeksha with a surge over the last 100m.