Jyothi Yarraji

Jyothi Yarraji

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Personal information
Full name	Jyothi Yarraji
Nationality	Indian
Born	(1999-08-28) 28 August 1999 (age 25) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Alma mater	Acharya Nagarjuna University
Sport
Country	India
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 m hurdles, 60 m hurdles, 200 m
Achievements and titles
Personal best	100 m hurdles : 12.78 NR (2023)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing   India Asian Games 2022 Hangzhou 100 m hurdles Asian Championships 2023 Bangkok 100 m hurdles 2025 Gumi 100 m hurdles 2023 Bangkok 200 metres Asian Indoor Championships 2024 Tehran 60 m hurdles 2023 Astana 60 m hurdles Universiade 2021 Chengdu 100 m hurdles

Jyothi Yarraji (born 28 August 1999) is an Indian track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles and also competes in the 60 metres hurdles and 200 metres sprint. She is the national record holder in the 100m hurdles and is widely regarded as one of India's top hurdlers. Yarraji is a two-time Asian champion, having won gold medals in the 100m hurdles at the 2023 and 2025 editions of the Asian Athletics Championships. ^[1] She also won a silver medal in the 100m hurdles at the 2022 Asian Games. ^[2] She is the first Indian woman to compete in the 100 m hurdles at the Olympics, representing India at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Early life and education

Jyothi hails from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. ^[3] Her father Suryanarayana is a security guard and her mother works as a domestic help. She did her schooling at the Port High School in Visakhapatnam old city. She did her education in a college affiliated to Acharya Nagarjuna University. ^[3] Later, she joined the Sports Authority of India hostel in Hyderabad and trained for two years under coach Olympian N Ramesh, who also received the Dronacharya award. ^[3] Later, she moved to Guntur to join the Centre of Excellence. From 2019 onwards, she has been training under British coach James Hillier at the Reliance Athletics High-Performance Centre in Bhubaneswar. ^[3]

Career

Jyothi's career highlight came when she won the silver medal in the 100m hurdles in the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China. ^[4] Initially she was disqualified for a false start along with a Chinese athlete but was later allowed take the start. In the end after a review, Chinese athlete Wu Yanni was disqualified and the Indian promoted to silver medal. ^{[4] [5]} In early 2023, she broke the national record for indoor 60 metres hurdles five times, apart from winning the Silver in the 2023 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships at Astana in Kazakhstan. ^[6]

COVID-19 and her back injury saw that she took part in virtually no events in 2021, but she came back strongly in 2022. She represented India at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the 100 metres hurdles and was a part of the Indian Women's 4 X 100 metres relay team that came 5th in the finals. At the 2022 edition of India's National Games, she won the Gold in both 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles. ^[7] On 17 October 2022, she became the first Indian woman hurdler to clock below 13 seconds becoming the second best Asian in the 100 metres women's hurdles in the year and the 11th best Asian ever. ^[8] At the 2022 Indian Open Nationals, she was adjudged the best athlete among women. ^[9]

In June 2025 she was in Taipei where she won one of six gold medals taken by Indian athletes at the Taiwan open. ^[10]

References

1. Sportstar, Team (29 May 2025). "Asian Athletics Championships 2025: Jyothi Yarraji defends 100m hurdles gold, sets new competition record". Sportstar. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
2. "Asian Games: Jyothi wins silver in 100m hurdles after Chinese officials attempt to get her disqualified". The Economic Times. 1 October 2023. ISSN   0013-0389 . Retrieved 30 May 2025.
3. Nag, Utathya (15 October 2023). "Jyothi Yarraji: India's rising star who overcame the hurdle of luck". www.olympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
4. "Asian Games 2023: Disqualified Jyothi Yarraji wins silver in women's 100m hurdles after incredible drama". India Today. October 2023. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
5. "Jyothi Yarraji on silver medal upgrade at Asian Games: This medal has taught me a lot". The Times of India. 19 October 2023. ISSN   0971-8257. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
6. "No hurdle too high for Jyothi Yarraji". Hindustan Times. 15 February 2023. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
7. Sarangi, Y. B. (4 October 2022). "National Games: Jyothi Yarraji, Ram Baboo hog limelight as athletics events conclude". sportstar.thehindu.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
8. "Yarraji creates new record, first Indian woman to run sub-13s hurdles". ESPN. 17 October 2022. Archived from the original on 18 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
9. Singh, Navneet (19 October 2022). "Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Jyothi Yarraji are the best athletes of the National Open Athletics Championships". www.sportskeeda.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
10. indiatribune (8 June 2025). "Athletics: Jyothi Yarraji wins in 12.99s as India claims six gold in Taiwan Open". India Tribune - Chicago -. Retrieved 11 June 2025.

External links

• Jyothi Yarraji at World Athletics