YARRAJI Jyothi

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
Heats	Women's 100m Hurdles	2023	Budapest, HUN	13.05
Asian Championships
1	Women's 100m Hurdles	2023	Bangkok, THA	13.09
2	Women's 200m	2023	Bangkok, THA	23.13

Athlete, Student

History - Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, IND

English

Indian Railways [India]

James Hillier [personal], GBR

2022 for India, in Limassol, Cyprus (olympics, 23 Jun 2022)

A back injury sidelined her for a number of months during the 2021 season. (olympics, 23 Jun 2022)

She took up athletics in the 10th grade at Port High School in Visakhapatnam, India. (sportstar, 08 Jul 2022; olympics, 23 Jun 2022)

She got involved in the sport following encouragement from her physical education teacher. "I used to feel good when I started running. It made me feel like I didn't have time to waste. It made me feel that I was doing something important." (sportstar, 08 Jul 2022)

To win a medal at the Olympic Games. (news18, 04 Aug 2022)

She trains at the Odisha Athletics High Performance Centre [HPC] in Bhubaneswar, India. (thehindu, 12 Oct 2022)

Winning silver in the 60m hurdles at the 2023 Asian Indoor Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan. (Instagram profile, 15 Feb 2023)

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra. (olympics, 23 Jun 2022)

Coach James Hillier, and her mother. (news18, 04 Aug 2022; sportstar, 08 Jul 2022)

"The biggest satisfaction is when the process starts giving results. All those hours spent in the gym, the 300m runs, the painful build-up of lactic acid in muscles are worth it when you know you are improving." (hindustantimes, 15 Feb 2023)