Olympian Ankita Dhyani won the women’s 2000m steeplechase race at the Grand Slam Jerusalem 2025 athletics meet in Israel on Thursday and broke the national record in the event.
The Grand Slam Jerusalem is a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver Category B track and field athletics event.
Ankita won the race with a time of 6:13.92, while Israel’s Adva Cohen and Denmark’s Juliane Hvid came in second and third after clocking personal best times of 6:15.20 and 6:17.80, respectively.
The Indian athlete broke the previous 2000m women’s steeplechase national record time of 6:14.38, which was held by Asian Games gold medallist Parul Chaudhary.
Ankita’s win in the Grand Slam Jerusalem helped her earn valuable ranking points and will boost her Road to Tokyo standings for the upcoming World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Japan from September 13 to 21.
Ankita has been in fine form in the 2025 athletics season.
She secured the silver medal in the 3000m steeplechase race at the FISU World University Games last month, where she clocked a personal best time of 9:31.99.
Ankita, who had run in the women’s 5000m at the Paris 2024 Olympics, took up the steeplechase late last year.
A 5000m bronze medallist from the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, Ankita Dhyani had also won the 3000m steeplechase title at the Mangrum Invitational in March.
She finished fifth in the 3000m steeplechase at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Gumi, the Republic of Korea.