(Video) Dutee Chand New National Record 11.22 seconds – 59th National Open Championship

utee Chand broke the national record in 100-metre sprint heats at the National Open Athletics Championships in Ranchi on Friday. The previous national record was held at 11.26 sec. She won her heat with a time of 11.22 seconds to better her personal best by 0.04 seconds that she registered at the Asian Athletics Championships in April this year. The previous national record in the women’s 100m event (11.26 seconds) was jointly held by Dutee and Rachita Mistry. With this new timing, Dutee Chand also inched closer to the 2020 Olympics qualification mark for the 100m event that has been set at 11.15 seconds

Earlier, Dutee also failed to qualify for the women’s 100m semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships as she finished 7th in the third heat of the event.

Dutee clocked 11.48 seconds in her heat, well below her season best which stands at 11.26s. Dutee had failed to meet the qualifying standards for world championships in 2019 but she made it to Doha meet after getting an invite from the IAAF.

Event # 22 WOMENS 100m Run
DUTEE CHAND CLOCKED 11.22S IN SEMI
# NR:DUTEE CHAND DOHA # 11.26 22/04/2019
% MR:SARASWATI SAHA NEW DELHI 11.43 2002
RESULTS OF FINALS
1 DUTEE CHAND 437 03/02/96 ODISHA +1.0m/s 0:11.25 #% (11.22-Heat )
2 ARCHANA SUSEENDRAN 715 09/06/94 TAMIL NADU +1.0m/s 0:11.54
3 HIMASHREE ROY 531 15/03/95 RAILWAY +1.0m/s 0:11.57
4 CHANDRA LEKHA ANANDHAN 524 28/03/97 RAILWAY +1.0m/s 0:11.58
5 SNEHA PJ 337 06/05/92 AFI +1.0m/s 0:11.66
6 PRIYANKA S KALAGI 552 31/10/92 RAILWAY +1.0m/s 0:11.68
7 HARIKA DEVI ANTARAM 750 01/07/94 TELANGANA +1.0m/s 0:11.80
8 ZAIDATUL HUSNIA H BINTI ZULKIF813 MALAYSIA +1.0m/s 0:11.92