Federation Cup: Asian Games silver medalist Dharun Ayyasamy betters countrywide file in 400m hurdles

Indian athlete Dharun Ayyasamy on Saturday bettered his national record with a run of forty-eight.80 seconds in the men’s 400 meters hurdles at the Federation Cup in Patiala. The 22-year-old had previously set the national record, with a 48. Ninety-six-2nd run, at some point in his silver medal-prevailing performance at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. This is Dharun’s second successive time has damaged the countrywide file at the Federation Cup.

In the last 12 months, he recovered from a about of typhoid before the occasion, but he had still clocked forty-nine. Forty-five seconds, setting a brand new national record for the first time in his profession. He erased Joseph G Abraham’s 10-12 months-old countrywide file of forty-nine. Ninety-four was set up in August 2007 in Osaka. Dharun, who misplaced his father while he became a year, started as a kho-kho player but switched to athletics and later joined the national camp in 2013, schooling below Galena Bukharin.

“My father passed away after I was eight years old. My mom has made numerous sacrifices for me. I owe her this. She is still earning simply Rs 14,000, consistent with the month as a teacher,” Dharun, who hails from Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, stated after his Asian Games triumph ultimate yr. The upward arc of his career is persevering for now, but qualifying for the Olympics and doing well there can be a unique undertaking.