Annu Rani wins javelin gold with season-best 62.59m throw in Poland


Nationwide File Holder Annu Rani Registered Her first 60m-plus throw in additional than a yr as she received the javelin competitors title on the eighth Worldwide Wiesaw Maniak Meet in Szczecin, Poland, Poland, on.

Rani, who will flip 33 on August 29, Despatched Her Spear to a Season Better of 62.59m to take the gold on the planet athlet, constinental two bronze degree mat. She holds the nationwide report of 63.82m, which she achieved in 2022.

She started with a 60.95m effort earlier than attaining her better of the day – 62.59m – – in her second throw.

In Truth, She Had One other 60M-Plus Throw-60.07m-in her sixth and ultimate try.

In distinction to her three 60m-plus throw on marriage ceremony, she couldn’t contact that lined mark since Could 2024, when she threw 60.68m for a Sixth-place End in Offenburg, Germany.

Since then she has even struggled to the touch 59m and did not qualify for the finals within the 2024 paris olympics with a 55.81m effort within the Qualification Spherical.

Her Finest this yr earlier than Wednsday was 58.82m in Mumbai in March.

Rani is what to breach the direct qualifying commonplace of 64m for the tokyo world championships in September. However, Her Efficiency on Wednsday May Put Her within the Reckoning for the Showpiece By World Rating Quota.

She now heads to bhubaneswar for the world athlet, Continental Tour Bronze Stage Meet on August 10.

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Revealed by:

Saurabh kumar

Revealed on:

Aug 6, 2025