Regardless of whether Jyothi Yarraji wins a medal or not, history will be made when she competes in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In the 100m hurdles, no Indian woman has ever participated in the Olympics; nevertheless, the 24-year-old from Visakhapatnam is poised to alter that. Yarraji, the silver medallist and champion of the Asian Athletics, created history by using the world ranking quota to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris.
At the Monet Grand Prix in Finland in May of this year, the national record holder equaled her personal best time of 12.78 seconds, although she narrowly missed the straight Olympic qualification threshold by 0.1 seconds when she almost stumbled over the last hurdle.
But despite her unbelievable year-long growth that has seen her become the first Indian woman to record sub-13 timings and hold the 15 fastest times ever set by an Indian in this category, Jyothi will be present in Paris when the women’s 100m hurdles event gets began.
For Jyothi to have any chance of turning her historic debut into a brilliant medal, that quality must be highlighted. With a time of 12.55 seconds, the Indian racer won bronze in the women’s 100-meter hurdles at Tokyo 2020. To stand a realistic chance of winning an athletics medal, which has largely eluded India, she will need to cut at least 0.23 seconds off her current personal best.
In sports, shaving off 0.23 seconds is no small accomplishment, particularly in such a brief amount of time. In order to contextualize the situation. Jyothi set a personal best of 13.03 in 2020; nevertheless, in 2023, he dropped 0.25 seconds to maintain the same time.
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