Chaudhary jumped 11.60 meters on Wednesday at the Dasharath Stadium. The earlier national record was also set by Chaudhary. She had jumped 11.30 meters during the Fifth National Games to set the national record in early 2009. [break]
Meanwhile, South Asian Games gold medalist Rajendra Bhandari of Nepal Army Club completed half marathon in 1 hour 9 minutes 12 seconds despite persisting rain on Wednesday morning.
During the two-day selection round, Tilak Ram Tharu (NPC), Kalyan Baniya (Nepal Army) and Manisha Adhikari (Western Region) clocked their personal best in men´s 100 m, men´s 5,000 m and women´s 400 m respectively.
Tharu, whose previous best timing was 11.21 seconds in the Youth Olympic Games, finished the 100 m sprint in 10.64 seconds during the selection.
Baniya clocked 14 minutes 57.15 seconds to complete 5,000 m. He has a previous best timing of 15 minutes 18.21 seconds, which he set during the first round of Asiad selection. Adhikari took 1 minute 2.50 seconds to complete 400 m. Her previous best timing was 1 minute 2.63 seconds.
Likewise, Youth Olympian Bishwa Rupa Budha completed 1,500 m in 4 minutes 53.50 seconds while Gita Khatri completed it in 4 minute 51.20 seconds. Kanchhi Maya Koju took 17 minutes 27.21 seconds to run 5,000 m. Sabitri Nepali clocked 27.15 seconds to sprint 200 m and 1 minute 0.48 seconds to complete 400 m.
Hari Kumar Rimal took 3 minute 55.62 seconds to complete 1,500 m and Dhirendra Chaudhary completed 110 m hurdles in 15.83 seconds.
Nepal Amateur Athletics Association conducted the final round selection on Tuesday and Wednesday to pick four male and four female athletes. Altogether 17 athletes participated in the final round of selection.
The association will pick eight athletes on Thursday on the basis of performance analysis and their level in comparison to other Asian athletes.
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