Siddhanth Thingalaya (born 3 January 1991) is an Indian

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athlete from

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who specializes in the

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. 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.

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

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, in 2008. He followed it up with a Bronze medal at the 9th National Federation Cup junior athletics championship in

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, with time of 14.69 seconds (99.0 cm hurdles). Siddhanth had training stint in

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under

Mittal Champions Trust Mittal Champions Trust (2005 to 2014) was a trust which supported Indian athletes with world-beating potential. It was funded by Lakshmi Mittal and was initiated by his son-in-law Amit Bhatia. It was founded on 9 November 2005 by Mahesh Bhupath ...

and had participated at

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under the

and clocked 14.31 seconds at the high altitude

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in March 2010. Few months later, he went on to win the silver medal in the Asian Junior Meet in

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, clocking a personal best 13.96 seconds (99.0 cm hurdles), while setting a new Indian Junior record. 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

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and

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. He has also coached two Olympians

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from

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and

Kenneth Medwood Kenneth Nathaniel Medwood (born December 14, 1987, in Belize City) is a Belizean track and field athlete, specializing in the 400 metres hurdles. He competed in the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics and was his nation's flagbeare ...

from

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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

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. 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,

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’s P. Muthuswamy and

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’s Amandeep Singh.

International competitions

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thingalaya, Siddhanth 1991 births Living people Athletes from Mumbai Indian male hurdlers Mithibai College alumni Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for India Asian Games competitors for India Commonwealth Games competitors for India Australian Athletics Championships winners