Jonathan Nyepa sets 10.47 to win silver at Indian Open

It was a neck to neck at the finish of the men's 100m dash during the 59th Indian Open Track and Field championships today (11 October) at Ranchi.

Eight sprinters completed the race within eighty milliseconds (10.46 to 10.53), and one of the top finishers was a Malaysian sprinter, Jonathan Nyepa.

Jonathan Nyepa has clocked 10.47 (+0.6) to clinch a silver medal, edged out by India's Amiya Kumar Mallick who stopped the clock at 10.46.

Jonathan Nyepa during his semifinal race (10.50s)

Jonathan's season-best of 10.37 that he set in July in Finland is the year's fastest time for Malaysia, and 3rd among Southeast Asian sprinters, after Indonesia's Lalu Zohi (10.03) and Thailand's Jirapong Meenapra (10.34).

He has a PB of 10.28 from 2017 South Korean national championships.

His teammate and the recently crowned Malaysian sprint champion Haiqal Hanafi (SB 10.46) was on 6th, clocking 10.50.

Meanwhile, Malaysia's SEA Games silver medalist Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli (SB 11.65) was also in the finals of women's 100m and set 11.92 (+1.0) to finish in the eighth position.

India's Dutee Chand won the race in 11.25, her second-best run ever after; he ran a new national record during the semifinals with a time of 11.22.

Malaysia's Ruslem Zikry, 19, has gone sub-52s for the first time in the men's 400m hurdles, which is his new personal best.

He is scheduled to compete in the SEA Games in December.

Selected results

MEN

100m (+0.6) (11)
Men’s 100m Final (+0.6)
1. Amiya Mallick 10.46
2. Jonathan Nyepa MAS 10.47
3. Gurindervir Singh 10.48
4. Harjit Singh 10.48
5. Pranav KS 10.50
6. Haiqal Hanafi MAS 10.50
7. Elakkiyadasan 10.52
8. Abhijith Nair 10.53

... 3s1 Haiqal Hanafi 10.56 / +0.7; 1s2 Jonathan Nyepa 10.50 / +0.7; 3s3 Nixson Kennedy 10.68  +1.0;
... 2h1 Haiqal Hanafi 10.5h / + 1.0;  1h4 Nixson Kennedy 10.5h / +0.4; 1h5 Jonathan Nyepa 10.3h / +0.7

200m (+0.9) (13)
1. Abhinav Panwar 21.37
2. Karre Ashok 21.40
3. Manikanda Arumugam 21.44
... 6. Jonathan Nyepa MAS 21.71

400m (12)
1. Noah Nirmal Tom 45.88
2. Amoj Jacob 46.32
3. Jeevan KS 46.77
SF/11-Oct... 5s1 Muhammad Ilham Suhaimi 47.56; 4s2 Lukmanul Hakim Akmal 47.78

400mh (11)
1. Jabir MP 49.41
2. Dharun Ayyasamy 49.50
3. Santhosh Kumar 50.54
.. 6. Ruslem Zikry Putra Roseli MAS 51.91

4x100m (13)
1. Haryana Team 3:08.51
2. Services Team 3:10.11
3. Malaysia Team 3:11.04
(Muhammad Ilham Suhaimi, Lukmanul Hakim Akmal, Rusleem Zikry Putra Roseli, Putra Azrul Syazwan Azman)

WOMEN

100m final (+1.0) (11)
1. Dutee Chand 11.25
2. Archana Suseendran 11.54
3. Himashree Roy 11.57
4. Chandra Anandhan 11.58
5. Sneha PJ 11.66
6. Priyanka Kalagi 11.68
7. Harika Antaram 11.80
8. Zaidatul Husniah MAS 11.92

... 4s1 Siti Fatimah Mohamad 11.99 / -0.9; 5s1 Komalam Shally Selveratnam 12.12 / -0.9; 5se Zaidatul Husniah 11.96 / +0.4; 8s2 Azreen Nabila Alias 12.08 / +0.4

100mh (+0.4) (11)
1. Kanimozhi 14.05
2. Nithya Ramraj 14.15
3. Elezabeth Antony 14.24
... 5. Raja Nursheena Raja Azhar 14.30

1500m (11)
1. Chitra Palakeez Unnikrish 4:17.39
2. Lili Das 4:18.52
3. Chanda 4:19.94
... 9. Savinder Kaur MAS 4:39.19

4x100m (11)
1. Railway team 45.23
2. Malaysia Team 45.97
(Faizah Asma Mazlan, Siti Fatimah Mohamad, Komalam Shally Selvratnam, Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli)
3. Tamil Naidu 46.69

*Malaysian results entered/updated on 14 October 2019
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