In a stunning display of talent and determination, Indian athletes Jyothi Yarraji and Amlan Borgohain have brought medals at the Jyvaskyla Motonet GP 2023 event at the Harju Stadium in Finland on Wednesday.

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Jyothi Yarraji clinched the silver medal, while Amlan Borgohain secured the bronze. They marked a significant achievement for India in the global sports arena. Jyothi Yarraji, representing India in the women's 100m hurdles, registered a time of 12.95s in a strong eight-women final race at the Jyvaskyla Motonet GP 2023 Tour Bronze event for her podium finish in Finland. She had earlier finished second in her heat with a time of 12.96. Reetta Hurske of Finland topped the podium ahead of the Indian athlete with a time of 12.80s. While another Finn, Nooralotta Neziri, clocked 13.17s to take the bronze.

Equally deserving of accolades is Amlan Borgohain, who clocked 10.49 in 100m race, his season-best time, to finish third. His previous-best this season was 10.52, which came at the Kurpfalz Gala 2023 athletics meet in Germany last month. The 25-year-old holds India's men's 100m national record with a time of 10.25s. Oshane Bailey (10.28) of Jamaica and Samuli Samuelsson (10.36) of Finland finished first and second, respectively, ahead of Amlan Borgohain in the 100m dash. 

Meanwhile, it was the fourth medal of the season for the 23-year-old Jyothi Yarraji. She holds the national record of 12.82 in the women's 100m hurdles. Heading into the Finland meet, Jyothi Yarraji finished fourth in Poland. She won gold medal in the women's 100m hurdles event (13.20s) at the T-Meeting 2023 athletics meet in the Netherlands. Jyothi Yarraji also won the gold medal with a season-best time of 12.84s at the Kurpfalz Gala 2023 athletics meet in Germany back in May. Moreover, Jyothi Yarraji clocked 12.89s at the Federation Cup 2023 in Ranchi last month. After that, she made the cut for the Asian Athletics Championships, scheduled in Thailand this July.

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At the same time, Amlan Borgohain came into the Finland meet after winning gold medals in the men's 100m (10.70s) and 200m (20.96s) races at the Flanders Cup 2023 athletics meet in Merksem, Belgium, last week. Jyothi Yarraji and Amlan Borgohain will compete in the National Inter-State Championships, scheduled from June 15, next.

Indian athlete Jyothi Yarraji won the women's 100m hurdles event at the Harry Schulting Games 2024 athletics meet in the Netherlands on Thursday. However, she was unlucky to miss the qualification mark for the Paris Olympics 2024 by one-tenth of a second. 

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Jyothi finished ahead of Mira Groot 

In her first event of the outdoor season in Europe, Asian Games silver medalist Jyothi Yarraji won the gold medal by clocking 12.87 seconds, ahead of Dutch hurdler Mira Groot, who finished second in 13.67 seconds, while another Dutch Runner Hanna van Baast finished in 13.84 seconds. 

Jyothi Yarraji finished first and clocked 12.87, missing the Olympic entry standard, set at 12.77, by 0.10 seconds. 

Earlier in the day, Jyothi had qualified for the 100m hurdles final with a timing of 13.04 seconds.

This is the second time Jyothi fell short of the qualifying mark

This is the second time that Jyoti, who trains at the Reliance Foundation High-Performance Center in Bhubaneswar, fell short of the qualifying mark by one hundredth of a second after she clocked a national record of 12.78 to clinch a bronze medal at the worlds.

Jyothi Yarraji, who had performed well at the Asian Indoor Season earlier in the year at the University Games in Chengdu, China, will compete in five more events during the Olympic qualifying period, which ends on June 30 this year.

Tejas Shirse won the 110m hurdles 

Meanwhile, Indian men's hurdler Tejas Shirse won the 110m hurdles in the same meet with a personal best timing of 13.56 seconds, ahead of local Dutch athletes Joas van Hellemondt (13.80 seconds) and Jamie Sesay (13.92 seconds). 

In the heats, Shirse came second overall with a timing of 13.78s. The qualifying mark in the men's 110m hurdles for the Paris Olympics is 13.27s. Meanwhile, India's national record in the event stands at 13.48s clocked by Siddhanth Thingalaya in 2017.

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Men's 200m national record holder Amlan Borgohain was also scheduled to compete in Vught on Thursday, but he did not attend the event.

Jyothi Yarraji broke the National Record and won the gold medal in the 60m hurdles at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 on Saturday. Yarraji cruised to victory in the final with an astonishing timing of 8.12 seconds.

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Jyothi Yarraji has now broken the 60 meter hurdles national record six times. She had set the national record last year by clocking 8.20 seconds, then beat it four times and completed it in 8.13 seconds. Jyothi had recorded a time of 8.22 seconds in her heat at the beginning of the day. She had won a silver medal in the last edition of the competition, which she improved this time.

Jyothi Yarraji topped her heat timing of 8.22s to finish ahead of Japan's Asuka Terada who clocked 8.21s. Lui Lai Yiu of Hong Kong took the third place with 8.26s. The 24-year-old Indian is the reigning Asian Outdoor champion in the 100m hurdles, having won the title in Bangkok last year. She had returned with a silver in the 100m hurdles from Hangzhou Asian Games after initially being disqualified.

On the other hand, Harmilan Bains had also won the gold medal in the 1500m final, crossing the finish line with a timing of 4:29.55. Her stellar performance laid the foundation of India's dominance on the track.

India has already done better performance than last year, not only Jyothi Yarraji return with a gold medal, another two gold medals came on the very first day.

Meanwhile, in field events, Shaili Singh and Nayana James showed their skills in the long jump finals and performed commendably and finished fifth and sixth respectively. Although falling short of the podium, their efforts added valuable points to India's tally.

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Ajay Kumar Saroj (1500m), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shot put), Dhanvir (shot put), and Tejas Shirse (60m hurdles) will compete in the evening session.

India's Jyothi Yarraji on Sunday finished fourth in the women's 100m hurdles event at the 69th Janusz Kusocinski Memorial 2023 Athletics Meet in Chorzow, Poland.

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Jyothi Yarraji clocked 13.03 seconds to finish outside the top three in the eight-woman field at the World Athletics Continental Tour silver event. While Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Alaysha Johnson clocked identical times of 12.42s to finish as joint winners. Natalia Christofi of Cyprus finished third with a time of 12.84s. Yarraji's performance in Poland was slower than her national record of 12.82s, but it was her fourth personal best time.

Jyothi Yarraji had won the women's 100m hurdles gold medal with a timing of 13.20s at the T-Meeting 2023 athletics meet in Tilburg, Netherlands ahead of the Poland meet. In addition, the 23-year-old had won the gold medal at the Kurpfalz Gala 2023 Athletics Meet in May. She clocked the season-best timing of 12.84 seconds. Jyothi Yarraji had earlier clocked 12.89s to qualify for the Asian Athletics Championships at the Federation Cup 2023 in Ranchi. This will be held in Thailand this July.

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The youngster had a slow start and was lagging behind till the 40m mark. But Yarraji then caught up pace to finish a credible fourth. This was Jyothi Yarraji's fourth-best timing in her career so far. If she'd managed to re-create her personal best of 12.82s, then she would have won the bronze medal at the Polish meet as it would have been 0.02 faster than the eventual third-placed Johnson who clocked 12.84s. This is her third meet in Europe this season with a few more scheduled before the Asian Athletic Championships 2023. Jyothi next up will be competing in a C category event scheduled for June 7th.

Annu Rani will be competing at the Memoriál Josefa Odložila in the Czech Republic tomorrow. This is a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze-level event.

Jyothi Yarraji bettered her own record to win the gold medal in women's 100m hurdles in the ongoing Federation Cup 2023 Athletics event at Birsa Munda Stadium in Ranchi on Wednesday.

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Andhra Pradesh's Yaraji set the tournament record by clocking 13.18 seconds in the heats of the women's 100m hurdles to breach the Asian Championships qualifying standard. She bettered this record by clocking 12.89 seconds in the final. Jyothi however was just short of her own national record of 12.82. Later during the day, Jyoti returned and topped her competition in the 200m heats. She clocked 23.47 seconds to qualify for the final. This mark was also better than the Asian Championships qualifying standards.

On the other hand, R Nithya Ramraj (13.44s) and Sapna Kumari (13.58s) with their second and third places in the 100m hurdles also booked a place in the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships, which will begin in Bangkok on June 12 to June 16.

Meanwhile, three more finals happened on the last day of the Federation Cup 2023. Tejas Ashok Shirse won the gold medal in the men's 100m hurdles in 13.72 seconds. The Maharashtra racer broke the previous meet record of 13.65 seconds set by Siddhanth Thingalaya in 2012. While in the women's discus throw, Shalini Chaudhary won with a throw of 49.35m. In men's hammer throw Punjab's Damneet Singh won with a throw of 64.91m.

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14 finals were played on the second day of the Federation Cup 2023, in which 27 athletes qualified for continental athletics events. On Monday also 20 athletes breached the qualifying standards. Earlier, Olympian and javelin thrower Annu Rani crossed the Asian Games 2022 qualification mark set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to win gold on the second day of the Federation Cup 2023 athletics event in Ranchi.

Karsten Warholm broke his own world record in the greatest men's 400-metre hurdles race ever run on Tuesday. Karsten Warholm clocked a remarkable 45.94 seconds and beating his previous world best of 46.70sec in the men's 400-metre hurdles race. Moreover, A win that represents a historic victory for Norway's unique sporting system. This was the Olympic final the event deserved in a golden era of the men's 400m hurdles. Benjamin's time of 46.17 seconds for silver would have comfortably broken the previous record Warholm had set in July. Though, Brazil's Alison Dos Santos bronze-medal time of 46.72 was just outside it. However, The 25-year-old Norwegian finished in 45.94 seconds. He smashes his previous record of 46.70 and becomes the first man to finish in under 46 seconds

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Warholm's dominance crowned a brilliant Summer Games for Norway. American rival Rai Benjamin came up strongly over the stretch and caught up with the Norwegian. But just when it looked like he will fade away. Benjamin had not given up hope and pushed down the home straight, coming almost neck-and-neck on the 10th and last hurdle. Warholm tapped into some hidden source of energy in his body and raced pulled away to smash the world record.

Benjamin completed his run in 46.17 and would have taken half a second off the previous world record. Rai Benjamin, his longtime American rival also beat the previous record. He finishes in 46.17 seconds for silver, and Brazil's Alison dos Santos took bronze. Moreover, Six of the eight finalists set national records at the Olympics.com.