Jyothi Yarraji (born 28 August 1999) is an Indian

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athlete who specializes in the

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and also competes in the

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and

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sprint. She is the national record holder in the 100m hurdles and is widely regarded as one of India’s top hurdlers. Yarraji is a two-time Asian champion, having won gold medals in the 100m hurdles at the

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editions of the

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. She also won a silver medal in the 100m hurdles at the

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Early life and education

Jyothi hails from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Her father Suryanarayana is a security guard and her mother works as a domestic help. She did her schooling at the Port High School in Visakhapatnam old city. She did her education in a college affiliated to Acharya Nagarjuna University. Later, she joined the Sports Authority of India hostel in Hyderabad and trained for two years under coach Olympian N Ramesh, who also received the Dronacharya award. Later, she moved to Guntur to join the Centre of Excellence. From 2019 onwards, she has been training under British coach James Hillier at the Reliance Athletics High-Performance Centre in Bhubaneswar.

Career

Jyothi's career highlight came when she won the silver medal in the 100m hurdles in the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China. Initially she was disqualified for a false start along with a Chinese athlete but was later allowed take the start. In the end after a review, Chinese athlete Wu Yanni was disqualified and the indian promoted to silver medal. In early 2023, she broke the national record for indoor

five times, apart from winning the Silver in the 2023

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in Kazakhstan. Covid 19 and her back injury saw that she took part in virtually no events in 2021, but she came back strongly in 2022. She represented India at the

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in the

and was a part of the Indian Women's 4 X 100 metres relay team that came 5th in the finals. At the 2022 edition of India's National Games, she won the Gold in both 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles. On 17 October 2022, she became the first Indian woman hurdler to clock below 13 seconds becoming the second best Asian in the 100 metres women's hurdles in the year and the 11th best Asian ever. At the 2022 Indian Open Nationals, she was adjudged the best athlete among women. In June 2025 she was in Taipei where she won one of six gold medals taken by Indian athletes at the Taiwan open.

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* 1999 births Living people Indian female hurdlers Sportspeople from Visakhapatnam Athletes from Andhra Pradesh Sportswomen from Andhra Pradesh Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for India Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Asian Games silver medalists for India Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games athletes for India FISU World University Games bronze medalists for India Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade Universiade bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships athletes for India Asian Athletics Championships winners Asian Athletics Championships medalists Asian Indoor Athletics Championships winners Recipients of the Arjuna Award {{India-athletics-bio-stub