Navi Mumbai, Mar 20 (PTI) Haryana's Ujjawal Chaudhary won the men's discus throw event at the U-20 National Athletics Championship with a record-breaking 59.34m effort, here on Thursday.

Chaudhary, representing Haryana in the competition, hurled the disc to a distance of 59.34m in his fifth attempt to better the previous U20 national record of 58.11m set by Sachin Dalal in 2014.

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The eventual winner from Haryana raced to a commanding lead from the start of the competition.

Meanwhile, men's javelin throw is an open event in which six throwers got direct entry to the final.

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The throwers included Olympian Shivpal Singh, Rohit Yadav and Sahil Silwal. The remaining six athletes came through a qualification round on Thursday.

Karnataka's Shashank Patil topped the field in the qualification with a throw of 72.48m. Twelve finalists also qualified in the men's discus throw.

Haryana's Abhimanyu led the field in the qualification with a throw of 54.01m.

Results:

Women's Discus throw: Seema (Haryana) 56.39m, Neetika Verma (Uttar Pradesh) 50.23m, Priya (Haryana) 48.88m.

U20: Discus throw: Nikita Kumari (Rajasthan) 46.78m, Soni Kumari (Bihar) 44.92m, Bhakti Tanaji Gawade (Maharashtra) 44.75m.

U18: Discus throw: Sunaina Poonia (Rajasthan) 35.31m, Bhakti Bhoir (Maharashtra) 22.08m.

Shot put:

U20 Women: Jashandeep Kaur (Punjab) 13.06m. Men U20: Discus throw: Ujjawal Chaudhary (Haryana) 59.34m (NR. Previous record of 58.11m was set by S Dalal in 2014), Vaibhav (Himachal Pradesh) 53.48m, Ritik (Haryana) 52.88m.

U18 Women: Discus throw: Usmanali Khan (Reliance) 55.11m, Sonu (Delhi) 52.15m, Yashraj Jain (Madhya Pradesh) 51.44m.

U20 Men: Shot put: Siddharth Choudhary (Rajasthan) 18.8m, Sarthak Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 17.52m, Ankit Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 17.27m.

U18 Men: Shot put: Aryan Prashant Satpute (Maharashtra) 18:06m, Akhand Pratap Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 18.04m, Harpartap Singh (Punjab) 17.12m.

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