Watch how Indian athlete Jyothi Yarraji won gold in 100m hurdles in the Taiwan Athletics Open 2025 with a stunning final push.

The Indian star athlete clocked 12.99s to win the gold.  Till the 7th hurdle, she was behind, but in the last 20m, she won the race with great acceleration.  

The 25-year-old national record holder had won the Gold medal in the Asian Athletics Championship 2025, a few weeks ago. 

Indian athletes claimed a total of four gold medals on the opening day of the Taiwan Open on Saturday. Pooja won the gold medal in Women's 1500m. Abdulla Aboobacker clinched the gold medal in men’s triple jump, with a leap of 16.21m. 

Meanwhile, alongside Jyothi, Tejas Shirse also won the gold in Men's 100m hurdles to make it double glory for the Indian 100m hurdle team. 

India's star athlete Jyoti Yarraji won the women’s 100m hurdles event with a timing of 12.99s in the opening day of the Taiwan Athletics Open 2025 on Saturday. The Indian hurdler relied on a desperate final push to claim a win, after going into the final hurdle trailing at second. This is India's fourth medal on the first day of the competition.

The 25-year-old Jyothi Yarraji had previously won gold at the Asian Championships in South Korea on 29 May with a time of 12.96 seconds. Her national record stands at 12.78 seconds.

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Tejas Shirse secured gold

Tejas Shirse, also a national record holder, secured gold in the men’s 110m hurdles, clocking 13.52 seconds – the second-fastest time of his career. Local athletes Hsieh Yuan-kai (13.72 seconds) and Kuei-Ru Chen (13.75 seconds) took silver and bronze, respectively. Shirse’s national record is 13.41 seconds.

Abdulla Aboobacker and Pooja also won gold medals in their respective events: the men’s triple jump and the women’s 1500m. Aboobacker achieved a distance of 16.21m, falling short of his personal best of 17.19m. Pooja, who won silver at the Asian Championships in South Korea last month, finished in 4 minutes 11.63 seconds. Her personal best is 4:09.52, set in 2023.

The Paris Olympics 2024 started on 26th July with a grand opening ceremony. This time the Olympics is being organized in Paris, the capital of France. For which complete preparations have been made. This time a total of 10,500 athletes are participating in the Olympics 2024. The eyes of these athletes will be on winning medals for their respective countries. It's time we look at India's Paris Olympics 2024 Day 13 (August 8) schedule.

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From India, 117 athletes have participated in the Olympics. Among these athletes, 72 players are part of the Olympic Games for the first time. The eyes of the entire country are fixed on these athletes. 

On the Paris Olympics 2024 Day 13, all eyes will be on Neeraj Chopra in the men's javelin throw final, who will defend his gold. Indian Men's Hockey Team will also try to clinch their second consecutive bronze medal in the Olympics. Apart from this, Avinash Sable will be in action at midnight in the men's 3000m steeplechase final. So, let us tell you in detail which sports Indian athletes will be seen in action on Day 13.

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Paris Olympics 2024 Day 13 (8th August) Schedule

Athletics

• Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final (Gold Medal Event) - Avinash Sable - 1:13 AM
• Women's 100m Hurdles Repechage Round - Jyothi Yarraji - 2:05 PM
• Men's Javelin Throw Final (Gold Medal Event) - Neeraj Chopra - 11:55 PM

Golf

• Women's Individual Stroke Play Round 2 - Aditi Ashok & Diksha Dagar - 12:30 PM

Hockey

• Men's Bronze Medal Match - India vs Spain - 5:30 PM

The Paris Olympics 2024 started on 26th July with a grand opening ceremony. This time the Olympics is being organized in Paris, the capital of France. For which complete preparations have been made. This time a total of 10,500 athletes are participating in the Olympics 2024. The eyes of these athletes will be on winning medals for their respective countries. It's time we look at India's Paris Olympics 2024 Day 12 (August 7) schedule.

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From India, 117 athletes have participated in the Olympics. Among these athletes, 72 players are part of the Olympic Games for the first time. The eyes of the entire country are fixed on these athletes. 

On the Paris Olympics 2024 Day 12, all eyes will be on Mirabai Chanu in the women's 49kg weightlifting bout and Jyothi Yarraji in the women's 100m hurdles. India's women's javelin thrower Annu Rani will also fight for the qualification in Group A. Apart from this, the Indian women's table tennis team will play their quarterfinal match against Germany. So, let us tell you in detail which sports Indian athletes will be seen in action on Day 12.

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Paris Olympics 2024 Day 12 (7th August) Schedule

Athletics

• Marathon Race Walk Relay Mixed (Gold Medal Event) - Suraj Panwar/Priyanka Goswami - 11:00 AM
• Men's High Jump Qualification - Sarvesh Kushare - 1:35 PM
• Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1 - Jyothi Yarraji - 1:45 PM
• Women's Javelin Throw Qualification Group A - Annu Rani - 1:55 PM
• Men's Triple Jump Qualification - Praveen Chithravel & Abdulla Aboobacker Narangolintevida - 10:45 PM

Golf

• Women's Individual Stroke Play Round 1 - Aditi Ashok & Diksha Dagar - 12:30 PM

Table Tennis

• Women's Team Quarterfinal - India vs Germany - 1:30 PM

Wrestling

• Women's Freestyle 53kg 1/8 Final - Antim Panghal vs Zeynep Yetgil (Turkey) - 2:30 PM

Weightlifting

• Women's 49kg - Saikhom Mirabai Chanu - 11:00 PM

The Paris Olympics 2024 will begin on July 26 in Paris, the capital of France, in which more than 100 Indian athletes will show their mettle to reach the podium of the world's biggest sports stage.

This time Indian athletes will have a golden opportunity to destroy all the old records. The last Tokyo Olympics has been the most successful for India. But this time India has full hope of getting at least 10 medals. If this happens, it will be the first time in Olympic history that India will get double-figure medals.

Nikhat Zareen appears to be standing at the forefront of the list of debutants in Paris 2024. let's take a look at seven promising Indians making their Olympic debut in Paris.

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Debutants to watch out for in Paris 2024

7. Jyothi Yarraji

24-year-old hurdles sprinter Jyothi Yarraji has won a series of medals leading up to Paris 2024, with golds in the Asian Athletic and Asian Indoor Athletic Championships. Yarraji secured quota through the world rankings route. Though the women’s 100m hurdles event has been part of the Summer Games since 1972, this will be the first time an Indian athlete is present on the start list.

The hurdler from Andhra Pradesh could have secured automatic entry to Paris if not for an injury to her lead leg that she suffered at the Monet Grand Prix in Finland in May. She clocked 12.78 seconds in Finland, missing the qualification mark by only 0.01 seconds.

6. Parul Chaudhary

At the Paris Olympics 2024, Parul Chaudhary will participate not only in the women’s 3000m steeplechase but also in the 5000m event. She qualified for the Olympics by breaching the Olympic qualification mark and in the latter through the Road to Paris World Rankings. Chaudhary shot into the limelight with a gold in the 5000m and silver in the 3000m steeplechase events of the Hangzhou Asian Games last year. The 28-year-old is the first Indian to clock less than nine minutes in the 3000m women’s steeplechase.

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5. Sreeja Akula

Sreeja Akula, who played an important role in helping India obtain quotas for the team event at the Paris 2024 Summer Games, is set to make her Olympic debut in both team and individual events. In 2022, Sreeja teamed up with Sharath Kamal to win the mixed doubles gold in her first-ever Commonwealth Games appearance in Birmingham.

Sreeja also created history in Lagos by becoming the first Indian table tennis player to win a WTT Contender singles title. The 25-year-old Indian table tennis player hopes to carry the momentum and create a few upsets in Paris.

4. Lakshya Sen

Lakshya Sen, the 'new star of Indian badminton' secured his spot at the Olympics by finishing 13th in the Paris 2024 Olympic Qualification Rankings (OQR) with 64021 points. He also ensured that India would have two men’s singles player representatives at the Olympics for the first time since 2004.

Lakshya has immense potential for the upcoming Paris 2024. He recently made a comeback with two consecutive semi-final finishes in the BWF European World Tour and French Open Super 750. He won three deciders at the French Open and All England Opens and two in two consecutive weeks which shows his sheer Potential, and determination to perform well on the big stage.

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3. Anshu Malik

Indian wrestler Anshu Malik is a strong medal contender at the Paris Olympics. Anshu had won a silver medal at the recent Ranking Series event in Budapest in the women's 57kg, losing the final to China's Kexin Hong. The 22-year-old Anshu had qualified for Paris 2024 by winning a gold medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifier in April. At the age of 18, Malik qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, losing to the eventual silver medallist, Iryna Kurachkina, while missing out on a medal in the repechage round.

2. Kishore Jena

Neeraj Chopra may be India's big hope in javelin but don't count out Kishore Jena, who followed up Chopra's gold at the 2022 Asian Games with a silver of his own. Jena got his ticket to the Paris Olympics via direct entry, as the qualifying cutoff is 85.50 m. Jena clinched the qualification with an 86.77-meter throw at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year.

During that event, he marked 87.54 m, just behind Neeraj Chopra’s mark of 89.94 m at the Stockholm Diamond League in June 2022. Jena believes that the Paris 2024 Olympics are a time for a turnaround. His entire focus is on Paris rather than future plans and that's why he could be a medal contender for sure.

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1. Nikhat Zareen

After clinching bronze at the 2023 Asian Games and gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, boxer Nikhat Zareen is one of India's brightest medal prospects at Paris 2024. Zareen is only the second Indian woman to win more than one world title in the history of the competition.

She joined none other than the legendary MC Mary Kom to have multiple boxing world titles. Among her memorable performances in her boxing career, came her win over three-time European Championships medallist Ukraine's Tetiana Kob which came at the  Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in 2022. No surprise that her medals tally is expected to grow and an Olympic medal is what 1.4 billion are expecting from her at the Paris Olympics 2024.

Reliance Foundation's star athlete Jyothi Yarraji has created history by qualifying for the women's 100-meter hurdles for the Paris Olympics 2024. With this, she became the first Indian female athlete to qualify for this event in the Olympics. 

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Jyothi Yarraji has got this quota on the basis of world ranking. The women's 100-meter hurdles event has been a part of every Olympics since 1972, but this will be the first time that an Indian athlete will be included in the start list.

Only Indian woman to finish below the 13th mark

Jyothi Yarraji, the current national record holder in this event, is the only Indian woman to win a medal in the women's 100-meter hurdles at the Asian Games, where she won a silver medal last year. She is the only Indian woman to finish below the 13th mark and holds the record for the fastest 15 runs ever by an Indian in this category. And in a knock-on effect, Jyothi also broke the long-standing national record held by three other women and now Anuradha Biswal.

Recently won gold in Senior Inter-State Athletics Championship

Jyoti's personal best performance is 12.78s, which she achieved despite a tough competition at the final hurdle at the Motonet GP in Finland earlier this year. Continuing her unbeaten streak on Indian soil, she also recently won a gold medal in the Senior Inter-State Athletics Championship.

Record-breaking runs of Jyothi

• 13.38s - Women’s 100m hurdles - Cyprus International Meet - May 2022
• 12.82s - Women’s 100m hurdles - 61st National Open  Athletics Championship - October 2022
• 12.78s - Women’s 100m hurdles - World University Games - August 2023
• 8.16s - Women’s 60m hurdles - Asian Indoor Athletics Meet (Kazakhstan) heats - February 2023
• 8.13s - Women’s 60m hurdles - Asian Indoor Athletics Meet (Kazakhstan) final - February 2023
• 8.12s - Women’s 60m hurdles - Asian Indoor  Athletics Meet (Tehran) final - February 2024

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Jyothi's accomplishments

• Gold medal, Asian  Athletics Championships 2023 (100m hurdles)
• Silver medal, Asian Athletics Championships 2023 (200m)
• Gold medal, Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 (60m hurdles)
• Silver medal, Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2023 (60m hurdles)
• Bronze medal, Summer World University Games 2021 (100m hurdles)