Sprinters Dutee Chand and Amiya Kumar Mallick clinched a double crown for Odisha, winning the women and men 100m titles respectively in the 59th Natlional Open Athletics Championships at Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium in Ranchi on October 11.
It was double delight for Dutee as the indomitable sprinter created New National Record in the semifinals with a timing of 11.22 seconds and then went on to win the title, clocking 11.25 seconds in the final.
Dutee bettered her own National Record of 11.26 seconds, which she had achieved at the Asian Championships in Doha on 22 April, 2019. She also erased Meet Record of 11.43 seconds, achievd by Saraswati Saha at New Delhi in 2002.