NEW DELHI: Indian runner Parul Chaudhary smashed the nationwide document on the Sound Operating meet in Los Angeles as she turned the primary athlete from the nation to clock a sub-nine minute time within the girls’s 3000m occasion.
The 27-year-old Chaudhary lined the gap in 8:57.19 to complete third on Saturday night time.
Together with her newest effort, Chaudhary, who specialises in steeplechase, broke Suriya Loganathan‘s document of 9:04.5s, set six years in the past in New Delhi.
The 27-year-old Chaudhary lined the gap in 8:57.19 to complete third on Saturday night time.
Together with her newest effort, Chaudhary, who specialises in steeplechase, broke Suriya Loganathan‘s document of 9:04.5s, set six years in the past in New Delhi.
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Chaudhary was trailing at fifth spot within the race, however the Indian gained momentum within the final two laps to assert a podium end.
The 3000m is a non-Olympic occasion wherein the Indians do not typically compete in.
Chaudhary can also be within the Indian workforce for the World Championships in Oregon, USA, beginning later this month. She shall be competing within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase occasion.
She had received the gold in girls’s 3000m steeplechase on the nationals held final month in Chennai.