India’s fastest woman hurdler Jyothi Yarraji came up with a stupendous performance to win a gold medal at the 26th Asian Athletics Championships on Thursday. Jyothi produced a late burst to clinch her second straight gold medal in this competition with a new championship record of 12.96 seconds. The previous record was 13.04 seconds, achieved by Kazakhstan’s Olga Shishigina in 1998 and Sun Yawei of China in 2011.
In the 2023 edition, Jyothi had won the gold medal with an effort of 13.09. But her personal best timing, which is also the national record, is way better at 12.78 seconds. Jyothi, an Asian Games silver-medallist, nonetheless joined a select club of five athletes to defend gold in the Asian Championships 100m hurdles, the others being Emi Akimoto of Japan (1979, 1981, 1983), Zhang Yu of China (1991, 1993), Su Yinping of China (2003, 2005) and Sun Yawei of China (2009, 2011).
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