After more than a year, Hima Das won 200m gold in her first race.

The 21-year-old Hima, the 2018 world junior champion in 400m, won the race in 23.31 seconds.

Star Indian sprinter Hima Das ran her first competitive race in more than a year and won a gold in the women”s 200m in the Indian Grand Prix II at the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports campus here on Thursday.

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The 21-year-old Hima, the 2018 world junior champion in 400m, won the race in 23.31 seconds.

She ran faster only three times earlier in this distance — twice in 2018 when she clocked 23.10 seconds in the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Guwahati and 23.22 seconds in a Grand Prix meet in Poland and once in 2019 when she clocked 23.25 seconds in the Czech Republic.

In August 2019, Hima, who has yet to qualify for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, ran her last competitive run. At the 2018 Asian Games, she sustained a lower back injury and that caused her to miss the World Championships in Doha in September 2019.

On the basis of her rankings, she can also count as one of the 56 starters at the Tokyo Games. At the time, she is world no. 33.

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