Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh lowered the National 100m record twice, while Asian Games silver medallist long jumper Ancy Sojan rewrote the meet record on the opening day of the Federation athletics meet at the Birsa Munda Stadium (Morabadi) on Friday.

In the conducive evening session, Gurindervir clocked 10.17 to break Kujur’s National record in the semifinals. Within minutes, displaying healthy rivalry, Kujur dashed to regain his record with a mark of 10.15 and attained the Commonwealth Games qualifying mark.

Ancy and her close rival Shaili Singh also exhibited another fine episode of rivalry. Responding to Shaili’s first jump of 6.38m, Ancy logged 6.47 before consistently achieving five 6.5m-plus jumps, including her fourth (6.75m) to erase Shaili’s meet record (6.64m) and win the gold with her personal best. However, she fell short of the CWG qualifying mark by nine cm.

“My first target was to perform without a jump foul. I aim for the Commonwealth (qualification mark),” said Ancy.

Deepak Bhatt ran a well-planned race, going into the lead in the last 70m, to claim his maiden 10,000m title.

Bihar’s Vibhaskar Kumar recorded a stunning 10.36 in the men’s 100m heats and qualified for the Asian under-23 championships.

In the decathlon high jump event, Tejaswin Shankar achieved 2.25m to surpass the CWG mark (2.22m).

The results (finals): Men: 10000m (CWG Q mark 27:39.03): 1. Deepak Bhatt (Utk) 29:42.93, 2. Sailesh Kushwaha (Kar) 29:57.56, 3. Prashant Choudhary (UP) 30:36.97.

Hammer throw (CWG Q mark 73.09m): 1. Ashish Jakhar (SSCB) 68.52m, 2. Damneet Singh (Rel.) 67.62m, 3. Ajay Kumar (Har) 64.93m.

3000m steeplechase (CWG Q mark 8:30.26): 1. Balkishan (Har) 8:56.01, 2. Sharuk Khan (UP) 8:56.63, 3. Sunil Joliya Jinabhai (Guj) 8:58.38.

Women: 10000m (CWG Q mark 31:14.14): 1. Ravina Gayakwad (Mah) 35:40.98, 2. Soniya (Utk) 36:16.22, 3. Aarti Pawara (Mah) 36:24.79.

Long jump (CWG Q mark 6.84m): 1. Ancy Sojan (Navy) 6.75m (MR, Old 6.64, Shaili Singh, 2025), 2. Shaili Singh (Anju Bobby George Academy) 6.58m, 3. Bhavani Yadav (NCOE Bengaluru) 6.39m.

3000m steeplechase (CWG Q mark 9:27.41): 1. Ankita Dhyani (Utk) 9:48.16, 2. Prachi Devkar (IOCL) 10:16.29, 3. Anju (Har) 10:28.23.

Discus (CWG Q mark 56.85m): 1. Seema (JSW) 57.29m, 2. Nidhi Rani (Har) 55.05m, 3. Krishna Jayasankar (Rel.) 55.00m.

Notwithstanding some major withdrawals, a clutch of big names — including Tejaswin Shankar, Animesh Kujur, M. Sreeshankar, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Sachin Yadav and Annu Rani — promise to make the 29th National Federation athletics meet a mouth-watering affair.

The event, starting at the Birsa Munda Stadium, Morabadi, here on Friday, is the last qualifying event for the Commonwealth Games. Athletes achieving prescribed qualification marks will be eligible to compete in Glasgow.

World and Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who is nursing injuries, Asian Games champion and Commonwealth Games silver medallist steeplechaser Avinash Sable, who delayed his return from an injury lay-off, Commonwealth Games champion triple jumper Eldhose Paul and Asian Games medallist Parul Chaudhary are some leading names who are skipping the event.

Parul, who clocked an impressive 9:12.84 in the 3000m steeplechase in the Diamond League in China this month, has requested the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to consider her performance for CWG selection.

A maximum of 16 men and as many women athletes can represent the country in the CWG. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) selection committee may use its prerogative to consider some athletes, who take permission and achieve the qualifying mark in ‘recognised events.’

A conducive weather at the peak of summer here enthused the athletes here.

Tejaswin, who trained and competed in the USA for about five months, sounded optimistic. “The weather is good. If I qualify for high jump in decathlon, that will be unprecedented,” said Tejaswin, the National decathlon and high jump record holder who has done 2.26m in high jump and 7947 points in decathlon this season.

Kujur, too, was confident. “I’m focusing on the 200m, that’s my favourite event,” said Kujur.

The event, witnessing the introduction of SRY Gene Test at the domestic level, will also serve as the qualifying event for the Asian under-23 championships.