Jyothi Yarraji’s Asian Champion and National Record holder of the Hope for this year’s World Athletics Championship suffered the main failure after the 25 -year -old man suffered “mad” injuries during training.
Yarraji, who won gold on 100m obstacles at the Asian championships in May, revealed development on Wednesday through an instagram post and said that her season was a break due to a break.
“Due to the unfortunate knee injury during the training a few days ago, I had to take a break in the season,” wrote Yarraji, who holds a national record of 12.78 seconds. “I work with my medical team to assess my possibilities and decide on the way forward.”
Her coach, James Hillier, confirmed that the injury was serious and that she currently weighs his next steps. “Unfortunately, she picked up her knee thief injury in training. It’s quite bad, so we’re evaluating our possibilities at the moment,” Hillier PTI said.
Yarraji must meet the automatic qualification standard of 12.73 seconds for the Tokyo World Championship this September. However, her performance of 12.96 seconds, which retains her Asian title, has put her among the 16 best athletes who have made themselves qualified through the world ranking quota. Currently, this list is placed in the 12th place, but stay in the qualifying parenthesis would require to continue the competition in the event evaluation-the most unlikely scenario due to its injury and the approaching date of August 24th.
This is not the first failure of injury to Yarraji. She missed part of the last season due to the injury of the hip flexor suffered during the training in Finland after the Paris Olympics. In an effort to avoid further tensions this year, she returned to her original approach to eight steps in 100m obstacles and moved away from the more demanding seven -time technique.
Her return was impressive. In February at Uttarakhand National Games in February at Uttarakhand National Games packed double gold (100 m obstacles and 200 meters), on the top of the stage at the Federation Cup and successfully defended its Asian title. Her last victory came to Taiwanese athletics open 7 June.
“Injuries are part of the athlete’s journey,” she said. “I consider it just another obstacle that I will soon overcome with all your support and blessing. I will return stronger.”
Whether the fastest obstacle in India will cause it to Tokyo to depend on its recovery time and if it is appropriate to compete before closing the qualifying window. It is a waiting game – from the track.
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Published:
Saurabh Kumar
Published on:
2 July 2025
