XtraTime Web Desk: Odisha-born India’s star sprinter Dutee Chand has given a silver medal in women’s 100m race as she took 11.32 seconds in the final of her event at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta today.
Earlier today she reached the final after she qualified as third at the semifinals where her time was 11.43 seconds.
The star sprinter’s national record is 11.29 which she had clocked in the National Games at Guwahati in June.
The 22-year-old athlete had breached the Asian Games qualifying time of 11.67 seconds after putting up a stunning show in the Inter-State Athletics Championships in Guwahati on June 29 this year where she broke her own national record clocking 11.29 seconds in the semi-finals before winning the final in 11.32 seconds
Dutee, who had won a ‘gender case’ against the international federation at the Court of Arbitration for Sports, had run 11.56 in the Federation Cup in March and was not picked in the Indian team for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2014.