22 year old Indian athlete Jyoti Yaraji created history in Cyprus on 11 May 2022. He set a national record in the 100 meters hurdles with a timing of 13.23 seconds at the International Athletics Meet in Cyprus. He broke a 20 year old record. Along with this, Jyoti Yaraji also won the gold medal in the women’s 100 meters hurdles. The Cyprus International Meet is a tournament of the World Athletics Subcontinental Tour Challenger Class D.
The special thing is that Jyoti Yaraji did not get the support of luck a month ago. He then clocked 13.09 seconds, but his record was invalidated. It was then argued that they had received help from the air in excess of the legal limit. For this reason his national record breaking performance was not recognized. Let us inform that before Jyoti Yaraji of Andhra Pradesh, this record was in the name of Anuradha Biswal. He completed the 100 meters hurdles in 2002 with a timing of 13.38 seconds.
Jyoti Yaraji, who practices at the Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High Performance Center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha’s capital, clocked 13.09 seconds in the Federation Cup in Kozhikode last month, but was declared invalid as the wind speed was plus 2.1 meters per second. The valid range is plus 2.0 meters per second.
Jyoti Yaraji All India Inter University in 2020 Athletics Championship I also clocked 13.03 seconds, but that too was declared invalid, as the National Anti-Doping Agency had not tested him at the tournament then. Apart from this, no technical representative of Athletics Federation of India was also present there.
Amlan Borgohain, another trainee at Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High Performance Center, finished third in the men’s 200m race with a timing of 21.32 seconds. Amalan Borgohain Kozhikode Federation Cup had broken the national record. Then 24-year-old Amalan Borgohain, who hails from Assam, clocked 20.52 seconds. In other results, Lily Das won the women’s 1500 meters with a timing of 4 minutes 17.79 seconds.