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Inter-State Athletics Championships 2023: 62nd National Inter-State Athletics Championships begins in Bhubaneswar's Kalinga Stadium on Thursday (June 15, 2023). The five-day event will see most of the big names in Indian athletics.
The Athletics Federation of India has made it mandatory for all athletes to compete in the Inter-State as a qualification event for the Asian Games 2023. The event will also allow aspiring athletes to qualify for World Athletics Championship. Notably, the qualification window for long-distance events such as marathon and 35km racewalk have already closed last month.
Inter-State Athletics Championships: Men's 100m heats results
(Heat 1) ASHISH RANA, ADITYA RAJ SINGH, SIVA KUMAR B, GURINDERVIR SINGH, RITIK MALIK, JAY SHAH, AHMED NAJUDHAAN ABDULLA, SHIVAM YADAV, (Heat 2) MANE DINESH, SHASHIKANTH VIRUPAKSHAPPA, LALU PRASAD BHOI, AMIYA KUMAR MALLICK, HARJIT SINGH, LOVE PREET SINGH, VALLIPI HIMATEJA, PRANAV PRAMOD GURAV; (Heat 3) MANIKANTA H HOBLIDHAR, GUNI VASANT RAJLU NAIDU, ELAKKIYADASAN K, MAYMON POULOSE, SAURABH RAJESH, ANIMESH KUJUR, HASSAN SAAID, AMIT TIWARI
Inter-State Championships: Women's 100m heat results
100m runners to qualify for semis: (Heat 1) AVANTIKA SANTOSH NARALE, SHILBI A, SRABANI NANDA, VIJAYA KUMARI, NITHYA GANDHE, ANJALI PD, SIMRAN DEEP KAUR, MARIYA NIVETHA; (Heat 2) SAKSHI CHAMPALAL CHAVAN, HIMANI CHANDEL, JYOTHI YARRAJI, SIMI N, HIMASHREE ROY, BHAVANI YADAV BHAGAVATHI, ANDHRA PRADESH, GIRIDHARANI RAVIKUMAR, SNEHA PJ
Inter-State Live from Bhubaneswar: Men's 400m heat results
400m runners to qualify for semifinal heats: (Heat 1) VIKRANT PANCHAL, ANGREJ SINGH, MUHAMMED ANAS YAHIYA, MUHAMMED AJMAL, KALINGA KUMARAGE, DHARMVEER CHOUDHARY, MIJO CHACKO KURIAN, AROKIA RAJIV; (Heat 2) NOWAJIS SHAIKH, RAHUL RAMESH KADAM, RAJESH RAMESH, AMOJ JACOB, ARUL RAJALINGAM, NIHAL JOEL, RAHUL BABY, MOHIT KUMAR
Inter-State Athletics Championships: Anas and Kalinga Kumarage set pace in 400m heats
National record holder Muhammad Anas and Sri Lankan runner Kalinga Kumarage were the fastest in the 400m heats while the likes of Arokia Rajiv, Muhammad Ajmal, Rajesh Ramesh, Amoj Jacob among others also qualified for the semifinal heats. The complete result to follow next.
National Inter-State Athletics Championships Live Updates: Women's 400m heat results
Athletes to qualify for 400m women's semifinals: (Heat 1) VANDANA SHARMA, JISNA MATHEW, R VITHYA RAMRAJ, AISHWARYA KAILASH MISHRA, FLORENCE BARLA, SUBHA VENKATESAN, SUKHWINDER KAUR, NIRMLA SHEORAN; (Heat 2) SIMARJEET KAUR, REZOANA MALLICK HEENA, ANJALI DEVI, SONIA BAISHYA, HIMANSHI MALIK, DANDI JYOTHIKA, PRACHI, VISMAYA VK
Inter-State women's 400m heat: Nirmala Sheoran returns after dope ban
Nirmala Sheoran made her return to competition after serving a four-year doping ban. The 400m runner clocked 55.07 seconds. To rejig the reader's memory, Nirmala was banned back in 2019 by WADA as she tested positive for steroids drostanolone and metenolone. It also costs India two medals (400m & 400m relay) at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships.
Inter-State Live from Bhubaneswar: Vithya Ramaraj and Anjali Devi dominate women's 400m heats
Vithya Ramaraj (in photo) posts her first sub-53 timing as she clocks 52.97 seconds to win one of the women's 400m heats. Anjali Devi was the fastest on the day as she clocked 52.89 seconds and also breached the Asian Games qualification standard. Complete women's 400m heat results to follow.
Inter-State Athletics Championships: Women's 20km racewalk result
No Asian Games qualification from women's 20km racewalk as well but gold medallist Bhawana Jatt (1:37.03 seconds) broke the 17-year-old Inter-State record previously held by Deepmala Devi.
Inter-State Athletics Live: Men's 20km racewalk result
No Asian Games qualification breached as Sandeep Kumar takes top honours in men's 20km racewalk for Haryana
Inter-State Athletics Championships: Bhawana Jatt wins women's 20km racewalk
Bhawana Jatt wins the 20km racewalk ahead of national record holder Priyanka Goswami. Complete result to follow soon.
Inter-State Live from Bhubaneswar: Sandeep Kumar wins 20km racewalk
Sandeep Kumar wins the 20km racewalk, and Tamil Nadu's Servin finishes on the podium as well. The complete result to follow soon.
National Inter-State Athletics Championships Live Updates
The men's 20km racewalk is close to its culmination. Both men's and women's racewalks are taking place on the same road.
Inter-State Athletics Championships: 10000m results
Kartik Kumar (Gold), Gulveer Singh (Silver), Pritam Kumar (Bronze) and Harman Jot Singh have breached the Asian Games qualification standard. Kartik Kumar has also set the new Inter-State Championship record, obliterating the 16-year-old record of Surendra Singh (29:06.17 secs).
Inter-State Athletics Live: Kartik Kumar wins men's 10000m final
Uttar Pradesh's Karthik Kumar wins the first gold medal of the 62nd National Inter-State Athletics Championships. The runner clocked 29.01.84 seconds to finish ahead of Gulveer Singh. The UP runner also breached the Asian Games qualification standard. The complete result to follow soon.
Inter-State Athletics Championships Live
The women's 20km racewalk is underway as well at the moment and the women's 10000m final is slated to start in another 10 minutes (6:10 AM IST). Scroll down to see the complete schedule on Day 1. Will like to remind you that there's no evening session today as the stadium is occupied for international football matches.
Inter-State Athletics Live: Men's 20km racewalk and 10000m race begin
The event on Day 1 has begin before the day breaks as the men's 20km racewalk and 1000m race is currently underway. The men's 10000m run is taking place at the main track of the stadium while the racewalk is taking place on the road inside the stadium premises.
Inter State Athletics Championships 2023 Live Updates
Hello and welcome to the Live coverage of the Day 1 of the Inter-State Athletics. This is your host Aditya K Halder bringing you all the updates from the Kalinga Stadium.
62nd national inter state senior athletics championship in Bhubaneshwar.
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) June 15, 2023
Men's 20km race walk in progress. pic.twitter.com/3GJ4Zbk0IE
Only two Indian elite athletes, Neeraj Chopra and Avinash Sable, were exempted from the tournament as the duo has been training abroad since the beginning of the season and are focussing on bigger prizes at the World Championships.
Hima Das is another big absentee from the Inter States as the sprinter has been suffering from a hamstring injury and is out of the Asian Games, AFI chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair has confirmed a day before the event.
The Inter-State, a domestic event, has also allowed athletes from Sri Lanka and Maldives to compete at the event at Kalinga Stadium. Interestingly, the venue has been trying to pull off a commendable feat of hosting two sporting events on the same days as the four-nation Intercontinental Cup football matches are being also played at the venue.
Both the tournaments' schedules are directly colliding on the opening day and June 18, which is also the final of the Intercontinental Cup with India already qualifying for the showdown.
Odisha sports department solved the issue by tweaking the Inter-State schedule a bit as on those two days AFI will only host the morning sessions. The remaining session will be held on June 19 as the event was extended by a day.
The opening day of the Inter-State Athletics Championships will see four long-distance races early in the morning with men's 20km racewalk starting the tournament as early as 5:30 AM IST.
Inter-State Athletics Championships 2023 Day 1 schedule
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