Bhubaneswar: Rajasthan’s 18-year-old Basant was among those athletes who narrowly missed the World U20 Athletics Championships qualification mark on the third day of the 40th National Junior Athletics Championships at Kalinga Stadium on Sunday.
Competing in the men's U20 group, Basant won gold with a height of 2.11m but fell short of the 2.12m qualification mark for the World U20 Athletics Championships scheduled in Oregon, USA, in 2026.
Basant’s teammate Narpat Singh also missed the mark in the hammer throw. Singh won gold in the men’s U20 hammer throw with a distance of 67.45m, while the World U20 qualification mark was 68m.
Day 3 Results
Men
- U20 High Jump: Basant (Rajasthan) 2.11m, Sagar Roy (West Bengal) 2.09m, Afroz Ahmad (Jharkhand) 2.03m
- U20 Hammer Throw: Narpat Singh (Rajasthan) 67.45m, Kartik (Uttar Pradesh) 66.40m, Aakash (Rajasthan) 65.60m
- U20 5,000m Race Walk: Amit Kumar (Chhattisgarh) 19:47.76, Ashish Yadav (Madhya Pradesh) 19:49.99, Sachin (Haryana) 19:59.48
- U18 Boys Shot Put: Nishchay (Haryana) 19.48m, Harpartap Singh (Punjab) 18.03m, Parth Solanki (Delhi) 17.58m
- U18 Boys Long Jump: Shivam Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 7.34m, Deepak Munda (Jharkhand) 7.23m, Manvith N (Karnataka) 7.18m
- U16 Boys High Jump: Sakthivel VN (Tamil Nadu) 1.81m, Kingshuk Paul (West Bengal) 1.78m, Muhammed Rabeeh (Kerala) 1.78m
Women
- U20 3000m: Sonam Parmar (Madhya Pradesh) 10:01.46, Tanisha (Haryana) 10:06.85, Soniya Upadhyay (Uttar Pradesh) 10:12.21
- U20 Triple Jump: Paveena Rajesh (Tamil Nadu) 12.42m, Tamanna (Haryana) 12.34m, Janice Tressa R (Kerala) 12.29m
- U20 Hammer Throw (4kg): Gunjan Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 47.78m, Ramisha Makvana (Gujarat) 46.98m, Ridhima (Rajasthan) 45.86m
- U20 5,000m Race Walk: Manisha (Rajasthan) 23:43.58, Tanya (Delhi) 23:43.91, Savitaben Chauhan (Gujarat) 23:57.90
- U16 High Jump: Abiya Ann Gigi (Kerala) 1.56m (meet record), Dhanya S (Tamil Nadu) 1.53m, Nivetha S (Tamil Nadu) 1.50m
- U14 Kids Javelin: Aaradhya Singh (Haryana) 38.64m, Kuni Rajgond Hari R (Odisha) 37.55m, Anushri Biswas (West Bengal) 36.56m