Two national records were shattered with 100m sprinter Dutee Chand hogging the limelight on the opening day of the Federation Cup National Athletics Championships here on Thursday.
Odisha athlete Dutee clocked 11.33secs in women's 100m dash to win the gold and erase Rachita Mistry's 16-year-old earlier national record of 11.38 secs. Another Odisha athlete Amiya Kumar Mallick also broke the national record in men's 100m sprint by clocking 10.26 secs in the semifinals, thereby bettering the earlier national mark of 10:30secs set by Abdul Najeeb Qureshi in 2010.
Mallick, however, failed to finish at the podium in the men's 100m race finals due to left hamstring pull.
None of the athletes, however, could qualify for the Rio Olympics on the first day of the meet. It also served as the qualifying event for the Rio Games. Dutee missed the Rio Olympics qualification norm of 11.32secs by one-hundredth of a second.
In the men's 100m dash finals, Jyotisankar Debnath of Bihar took the gold in 10.41secs while Krishnakumar Rane (10.44secs) and Mohd Abdul Qureshi (10.50secs) were second and third respectively.
In men's shot put, reigning Asian champion and Rio Games bound Inderjeet Singh was pushed to the second spot in an upset by Tajinderpal Singh Toor of ONGC who won the gold with a throw of 19.93m.