Tamil Nadu athlete Dharun Ayyasamy smashed the men's 400m hurdles national record and in the process grabbed a Commonwealth Games ticket on the concluding day of the 22nd Federation Cup National Senior Championships. Triple jumper Arpinder Singh also booked his second straight Commonwealth Games berth, by winning gold with an effort of 16.61m. A centimeter more than AFI's qualifying standard of 16.60m. Veteran Renjith Maheswary was unfortunately stretchered out with a suspected left knee dislocation and right index finger fracture after slipping on his run-up while taking his last step before leaping in his fifth attempt. Before Renjith injury, the 32-year-old athlete, the current national record holder, had leaped to a 16.51 meters jump in his second attempt to win the silver.

In all, nine athletes crossed AFI's qualifying mark from the championships. The 21-year-old Dharun, who just recovered from a bout of typhoid, clocked 49.45 seconds, the exact the qualifying standard for the Gold Coast CWG set by the Athletics Federation of India to the disbelief of the spectators at the NIS Patiala. Dharun thus erased Joseph G Abraham's over 10-year-old earlier national record of 49.94 made in August 2007 in Osaka.

It was a clean sweep by Tamil Nadu with Santhosh Kumar ad Ramachandran M winning the silver and bronze respectively clocking 50.14 seconds and 51.61 seconds. Dharun has not won any major national or international event, his last medal had come at an Indian Grand Prix event in Bengaluru.