New Delhi:Hurdler Dharun Ayyasamy clocked a timing of 49.94s to win his second consecutive gold medal in the Indian Grand Prix series 2019 here at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The 24-year old improved his timing from 50.07s clocked by him at IGP-1 held in Patiala on Saturday. Santhosh Kumar took the second place with a timing of 50.77s and the bronze medal went to Ramachandran clocking 50.83s. All three medals went to the athletes from Tamil Nadu.

Asian Games Silver Medalist Dutee Chand ran 23.30s to win her second gold medal in the IGP series. The timing will help DuteeChand improve her IAAF World Ranking in the 200m event. Her timing also ensured that the Odisha sprinter made the qualifying cut-off for the Asian Athletics Championships to be held in Doha.

The Silver medal went to Anjali Devi of Haryana with a timing of 24.15s. Supriya Maddal of Andhra Pradesh clocked 24.48s to bag the bronze medal in this event.

MR Poovamma and Vismaya V K, part of the Asian games 4x400m relay winning team,bagged the gold and silver medals in the 400m event. Poovamma clocked 54.12s while Vismaya finished with a timing of 54.76s. The bronze medal went to Prachi of Uttar Pradesh clocking a timing of 54.74s.

Arokia Rajiv of Tamil Nadu ran 46.49s to win the men’s 400m gold medal in IGP-2 and started the season with a victory. The silver medal went to Jeevan K.S. of Karnataka by running 47.02s and winning his second medal in the IGP series. Kunhu Mohammed of Kerala claimed Bronze medal with a time of 47.19s.

Ajay Kumar Saroj got back his lost form and won the gold medal in 1500m by clocking a time of 3:46.10.The silver medal went to his stalemate Rahul of Uttar Pradesh recording timing of 3:48.15. The bronze medal went to Ankit of Haryana 3:49.90

The last event of the day 1500m women turned to be the most thrilling race in which P.U.Chitra outran Lily Das of West Bengal to win the gold medal by clocking 4:20.76. Lily won silver with a time of 4: 20.89.The third place went to Usha Sati of Delhi who clocked 5:08.07s

RESULTS

2^nd Indian Grand Prix Meeting at New Delhi / 27.02.2019

Men:

400 m/Race 1: Arokia Rajiv 46.49; K.S.Jeevan 47.02; Noah Nirmal Tom 47.40; Race 2: P.P.Kunhu Muhammed 47.19; Harsh Kumar 47.36; V.Sajin 47.85; Race 3: Sarthak Bhambri 48.10;

1500 m: Ajay Kumar Saroj 3:46.10; Rahul Harveer Singh 3:48.15; Ankit ?? 3:49.90; Bir Singh 3:52.05; Dinesh Lathwal 3:52.34; Satish Kumar Poonia 3:53.83; Mukesh Kumar Yadav 3:55.07;

400 m H: Ayyasamy Dharun 49.94; T.Santhosh Kumar 50.77; M.Ramachandran 50.83; Jashanjot Singh 51.30; Jithin Patil 51.66; Aftab Alam 52.00; Muhammed Anas 53.80;

T J: Mohammed Salahuddin 15.80/ -0.1; Jay Shah Pradeep 15.44/ -1.1; Chithravel Pradeep/2001 15.40/ -1.1;

S P: Parveen Kumar Singh 17.37; Sahib Singh/2000 16.53;

D T: Senthul Mithravarun 52.62; Arvind Rathee 48.98; Surjeet Gurra 47.62;

J T: Abhishek Singh 78.24; Abhishek Drall 75.19; Yashvir Singh/2001 67.95; Mohit Kumar 66.30;

Women:

200 m/nwi: Race 1: Dutee Chand 23.30;Anjali Devi 24.15; Supriya Maddali 24.48; Race 2: Harika Devi 24.49; Soniya Baishya 24.56; V.Subha 24.90;

400 m/Race 1: Machettira Raju Poovamma 54.12; Sarita Ben Gayakwad 54.61; Prachi ?? 54.74;

Race 2: V.K.Vismaya 54.76; Anu Raghavan 56.39; Aishwarya Mishra 56.53; Shalu Chaudhary 57.29; Kavita ?? 57.48;

1500 m: P.Unnikrishnan Chitra 4:20.76; Lili Das 4:20.89;

T J: Renu ?? 12.76/ -0.9; Nellickal V.Sheena 12.45/ -1.2; K.M.Sonam 12.34/+0.3; Priyadarshini Suresh

12.26/ 0.0;

S P: Kachnar Chaudhary 14.41; Anamika Das 13.75; Sonal Goyal 13.28;

D T: Navjeet Kaur Dhillon 54.92; Nidhi Rani 45.95;

J T: Sharmila Kumari 50.94; Rupinder Kaur 48.62;

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1^st Indian Grand Prix Meeting at Patiala / 23.02.2019

Men:

100 m/ 0.0: Arokia Rajiv 10.65; V.K.Elakkiya Dasan 10.72;

400 m/combined results from different races : K.S.Jeevan 47.15; V.Sajin 47.40; Harsh Kumar 47.54; P.P.Kunhu Muhammed 47.58; Noah Nirmal Tom 47.66; Jithu Baby 47.81; Sarthak Bhambri 47.85; Vikarant Panchal 48.00;

800 m: Manjit Singh 1:48.54; Mohammed Afsal 1:49.01; Ankit ?? 1:49.57; Beant Singh 1:50.14;

Arun Kumar 1:51.31; Ankesh Chaudhary 1:52.92; Krishan Kumar 1:53.65;

3000 m St: Avinash Sable 8:41.87; Shankar Lal Swami 8:56.45; Durga Bahadur Budha 9:00.01;

Rakesh Kumar Swami 9:19.44;

400 m H: Ayyasamy Dharun 50.05; M.P.Jabir 50.67; M.Ramachandran 51.27; Jashanjot Singh 51.65;

T.Santhosh Kumar 52.03; Aftab Alam 52.04; Muhammed Anas 53.43; Vijay Singh Malik 53.50;

L J: Kasiayan Athistam 7.32/ 0.0: Wayne Peppin 7.21/ -1.6; Mehakpreet Singh 7.19/+0.5;

S P: Tajinder Pal Singh 20.13; Inderjeet Singh 19.35; Jasdeep Singh 18.59; Paramjeet Singh 17.96;

Parveen Kumar Singh 17.19; Prabhkirpal Singh 16.14;

D T: Senthul Mithravarun 53.27; Surjeet Gurra 48.30;

J T: Vipin Kasana 77.87; Abhishek Singh 76.74; Arshdeep Singh 74.05; Abhishek Drall 73.18;

Rishabh Nehra 68.38;

Women:

100 m/ 0.0: Dutee Chand 11.51; S.Dhanalakshmi 11.98;

400 m/combined results from different races: V.K.Vismaya 53.60; Anjali Devi 54.50; Prachi ?? 54.68; Soniya Baishya 54.82; Aishwarya Mishra 55.64; Kavita ?? 56.05; V.Subha 56.24;

800 m: Jisna Mathew 2:09.17; K.Priya 2:09.76; Archana Adhav 2:10.98; Yamuna Ladkat 2:11.61;

K.Sneha 2:14.42;

3000 m St: Parul Chaudhary 10:45.12; Chinta Yadav 10:46.58; Sudha Singh 10:54.80; Richia Bhadauriya 10:58.01; Sugandha Gurjar 11:04.70;

400 m H: Sarita Ben Gayakwad 59.28; Anu Raghavan 59.54 (only 2 competitors);

L J/nwi: Murugan Sowmiya 5.73; Mareena George 5.70;

S P: Anamika Das 14.66; Sonal Goyal 14.59; Kachnar Chaudhary 14.45;

D T: Navjeet Kaur Dhillon 55.73; Nidhi Rani 45.01;

J T: Annu Rani 57.88; Sharmila Kumari 51.84; Rupinder Kaur 49.48;