Siddhanth Thingalaya
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| Nationality | India | |||||||||
| Born |
3 January 1991 Maharashtra, India | |||||||||
| Residence | Mumbai | |||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||
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| Country | India | |||||||||
| Sport | Running | |||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint (110 m hurdles) | |||||||||
Medal record
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Siddhanth Thingalaya (born 3 January 1991) is an Indian track and field athlete from Mumbai who specializes in the 110 metre hurdles.[1] He holds the current national record in 110 m hurdles with a time of 13.65 seconds, set at the Belgium Athletics National Championship held in Brussels on 17 June 2012.[2]
Career
Siddhanth is a second year commerce student at Mithibai College, Mumbai. His first success in 110 m hurdles came when he won the inter-university title at Kochi, in 2008. He followed it up with a Bronze medal at the 9th National Federation Cup junior athletics championships.[3]
Thingalaya had a training stint at South Africa under the Mittal Champions Trust and clocked 14.31 seconds at the high altitude Potchefstroom in March 2010. Few months later, he went on to win the silver medal in the Asian Junior Meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, clocking a personal best 13.96 seconds (99.0 cm hurdles), while setting a new Indian Junior record.[4]
Thingalaya improved his personal best timing to 14.20 seconds in the heats of men's 110 m hurdles during the 50th National Inter-State Athletics Championships held in Patiala. In the finals, on 7 August 2010, he broke the Indian National record (held by K. Krishna Mohan) by clocking 13.81 seconds while winning the gold. His margin of victory was an impressive 0.65 s as he finished ahead of his rivals, Tamil Nadu’s P. Muthuswamy and Punjab’s Amandeep Singh.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Three national records fall at Indian Inter-State Championships". International Association of Athletics Federations. 9 August 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Thingalaya rewrites his National record". The Hindu. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ↑ "Kesavaramani betters meet record in 110m hurdles". The Hindu. The Hindu. 26 July 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Andheri boy Siddhant Thingalay to represent India at IAAF World Junior's". MiD DAY. 18 July 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
External links
- Siddhanth Thingalaya profile at IAAF