Dhana Lakshmi beats Hima Das in 200m semifinals, breaks PT Usha’s meet record

S Dhanalakshmi of Tamil Nadu, who had stunned Dutee Chand in the 100m final, on Thursday beat another star athlete Hima Das in the 200m semifinal heats by running a meet record time of 23.26 seconds in the Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships on Thursday.

Her victory over Hima Das (Assam) in the semifinal heats lifted her to the top 10 of Indian all-time list.



Archana Suseendran (Tamil Nadu) won her semifinal heats in 24.07 seconds to raise expectations of an interesting final.

It must be stated that both Hima Das (23.10) and Archana Suseendran (23.18) have faster times than the one blazed by Dhanalakshmi on Thursday.

Dhanalakshmi’s time bettered PT Usha’s long-standing meet record of 22.80 seconds set in Chennai in 1998.