Siddhanth Thingalaya Explained

Siddhanth Thingalaya
Nationality:Indian
Sport:Running
Event:Sprint (110 m hurdles)
Birth Date:3 January 1991
Birth Place:Maharashtra, India
Residence:Mumbai
Weight:87 kg
Country:India
Pb:13.48 (Mesa 2017) NR

Siddhanth Thingalaya (born 3 January 1991) is an Indian track and field athlete from Mumbai who specializes in the 110 metre hurdles.[1] He holds the current national record in 110 m hurdles with a time of 13.48 seconds, set at Altis Invitational Meet, USA in June 2017. In 7 years' time, he improved the national record 8 times, and brought it from 13.96 to 13.48.[2]

Career

Siddhanth started his athlete career while he was 11 years old. Started participating in inter-school events. His first success in 110 m hurdles came when he won the inter-university title at Kochi, in 2008. He followed it up with a Bronze medal at the 9th National Federation Cup junior athletics championship in Lucknow, with time of 14.69 seconds (99.0 cm hurdles).[3]

Siddhanth had training stint in Australia under Mittal Champions Trust and had participated at South Africa under the Mittal Champions Trust and clocked 14.31 seconds at the high altitude Potchefstroom in March 2010. Few months later, he went on to win the silver medal in the Asian Junior Meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, clocking a personal best 13.96 seconds (99.0 cm hurdles), while setting a new Indian Junior record.[4] He competed for India in the 2010 World Junior Championships, missing qualifying for the semi-finals by .03 in his heat running 14.09.

Currently Siddhanth is being trained by Gary Cablayan, who is a certified USA track and field coach in the sprints, hurdles and relays. He expertise in elite speed specialist and has been training many NFL players like DeSean Jackson and John Ross (American football). He has also coached two Olympians Olutoyin Augustus from Nigeria and Kenneth Medwood from Belize

Thingalaya improved his personal best timing to 14.20 seconds in the heats of men's 110 m hurdles during the 50th National Inter-State Athletics Championships held in Patiala. In the finals, on 7 August 2010, he broke the Indian National record (held by K. Krishna Mohan) by clocking 13.81 seconds while winning the gold. His margin of victory was an impressive 0.65 s as he finished ahead of his rivals, Tamil Nadu’s P. Muthuswamy and Punjab’s Amandeep Singh.

International competitions

Representing
2017World Championships London110 metres hurdles13.64
UW Indoor Preview Seattlebgcolor=gold1st60 metres hurdles(indoor)7.70[5]
Altis Invitational Arizonabgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles13.48[6]
2016UW Preview Indoor Seattlebgcolor=gold1st60 metres hurdles (indoor)7.86[7]
Mountain T's Invitational Arizonabgcolor=gold1st60 metres hurdles (indoor)7.80[8]
NTC Pure Athletics Elite Invitational Floridabgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles13.59[9]
Canyon State Games Arizonabgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles13.54[10]
2015UCLA Rafer Johnson Jackie Joyner Kersee Invitational Los Angelesbgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles13.83[11]
21st Asian Athletics Championships Wuhan110 metres hurdles14.10
2014Commonwealth Games Glasgow110 metres hurdles13.91
Asian Games Incheon6th110 metres hurdles13.71
201391st Australian Athletics Championships Sydneybgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles13.72
Asian Athletics Grand Prix Series-Leg 1 Bangkokbgcolor=Silver2nd110 metres hurdles13.88
Asian Athletics Grand Prix Series-Leg 2 Chonburi3rd110 metres hurdles13.90
Asian Athletics Grand Prix Series-Leg 3 Colombobgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles13.81
20th Asian Athletics Championships Pune4th110 metres hurdles13.89
2012Sydney Track Classic Sydneybgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles14.03
Qantas Melbourne Track Classic Melbournebgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles14.13
90th Australian Athletics Championships Melbournebgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles13.66
2011Perth Track Classic Perthbgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles14.00
89th Australian Athletics Championships Melbournebgcolor=gold1st110 metres hurdles14.14
2010Asian Junior Athletics Championships Hanoibgcolor=silver2nd110 metres hurdles (99.0 cm)13.96
IAAF World U20 Championships Moncton110 metres hurdles (99.0 cm)14.09
Commonwealth Games Delhi110 metres hurdles14.06
Asian Games Guangzhou110 metres hurdlesNA

Notes and References

  1. News: Three national records fall at Indian Inter-State Championships. 9 August 2010. International Association of Athletics Federations. 14 August 2010.
  2. https://www.run123.one/rec/IND/IND-M.html India - national records progression - men
  3. News: Kesavaramani betters meet record in 110m hurdles. https://web.archive.org/web/20090730054801/http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/26/stories/2009072660381500.htm. dead. 30 July 2009. 26 July 2009. The Hindu. 14 August 2010.
  4. News: Andheri boy Siddhant Thingalay to represent India at IAAF World Junior's. 18 July 2010. MiD DAY. 14 August 2010.
  5. http://static.gohuskies.com/custompages/trackresults/011417/170114F037.htm 2017 UW Indoor Seattle Results
  6. http://www.wingfootfinish.com/result_details.cfm?ResultsID=519 2017 Altis Invitational Results
  7. https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/255569/results/m/1/60mh 2016 UW Indoor Seattle Results
  8. http://az.milesplit.com/meets/225946/results/421314/raw#.WcUFScgjHtQ 2016 Mountain T's Invitational Results
  9. http://elitetiming.net/pure-athletics-elite-invitational-2016/ 2016 Pure Athletics Elite Invitational Results
  10. https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/india/siddhanth-thingalaya-257986 2016 Canyon State Games Arizona
  11. http://ucla-rafer-johnson-jackie-joyner-kersee-invitational.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=2506&year=2015&do=info UCLA Rafer 2015 Results

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