National record News

Neeraj Chopra’s throw was the tournament’s record too, until reigning world champion Anderson Peters breached the 90m mark as he threw 90.31m on his third try to set a new meet record. 

Neeraj Chopra's other throws measured 84.37m, 87.46m, 84.77m, 86.67 and 86.84m. He bettered his earlier national record of 89.30m, which his spear had travelled while finishing second in the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, on June 14. 

The 89.30 meters throw saw Neeraj Chopra finish second on the podium at the Paavo Nurmi Games behind the Finnish favourite Oliver Helander, who achieved a personal best of 89.93 meters.

Annu, who won a bronze in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, threw the javelin to a distance of 60.01m to erase her own earlier national mark.

Hosts Kazakhstan bagged the top honours with a timing of 42.92sec.

Vedika registered a time of one minute and 21.03 seconds to break the previous record of 1:21.96 which was set by Vania Kapoor of Karnataka in 2013.

Anas clocked 45.44 seconds to erase the existing record of 45.47seconds created by 2014Asian Games Bronze medallist Arokia Rajiv at the 20th Federation Cup on April 28 in New Delhi.

 Left to compete within an hour of reaching here from China, promising sprinter Dutee Chand won the gold in women's 100m sprint event in the Taiwan Open Athletics Championships today.

The Indian team ran with Merlin starting the race with Jyoti running the second followed by the Srabani with Dutee running the anchor leg.

Sudha's new record -- 9:26:55secs -- rewritten 15 days after Asian champion Lalita Babar's national mark in New Delhi 

Sudha clocked 9 minute 26.55 seconds.

Rajiv Arokiya set the second national record of the day while winning the gold in men's 400m race.

National records were broken for the third day in a row.

Manpreet Kaur of Railways created a new national record in the women's shot put at the 55th National Open Athletic Championship here on Wednesday to qualify for next year's Rio Olympics.