Indian athlete Jyothi Yarraji won the women’s 100m hurdles event at the Harry Schulting Games athletics meet in Vught, Netherlands on Thursday. 

However, she has not yet earned the qualification for the Paris Olympics by one-tenth of a second. Jyothi, who had done well in the Asian Indoor season earlier in the year, will be participating in five more events during the Olympic qualifying period which will end on 30th June this year.

In her first event of the outdoor season in Europe, Asian Games silver medallist Jyothi clocked 12.87 seconds to win the gold medal, finishing ahead of Dutch hurdler Mira Groot, who ended second in 13.67 seconds with another Dutch runner Hanna van Baast who finished in 13.84 seconds.

In finishing first and clocking 12.87, Yarraji missed the entry standard for the Olympics, set at 12.77s, by 0.10 seconds. Earlier in the day, Jyothi had qualified for the final of the 100m hurdles by clocking 13.04 seconds.

This is the second time that Jyothi, who trains at the Reliance Foundation High-Performance Centre in Bhubaneswar, after falling short of the qualifying mark by one-hundredth of a second when she set the national record of 12.78 for a bronze medal at the World University Games in Chengdu, China.