NEW DELHI, OCT 15: Veteran PT Usha was back. So was long jumper, Sanjay Kumar Rai, the new exciting thing on the Indian atheltics scene. Both duly won their respective events, but even as they finished with the chores, there was more a sigh of relief than elation or dejection on the faces of both winners and losers at the Raja Bhalendra Singh International athletics meet.There is just one more meet, the National Championships at the Bhopal to go for the athletes and then it will be rest and off-season for sometime. The need to get rid competition phobia is alright, but the Amateur Athetics Federation of India could have timed the meet somewhat better. The Nationals in the last week of October, is however, something the athletes can ill-afford to miss. For a win there could well mean a promotion in their respctive departments, as most employers count only victories in National Championships.Little wonder then many of the athletes, who stayed from one or both meets this week will however make the trip toBhopal. Gulab Chand will be one such athlete, whose need for a National title some years ago had lead to his collusion with senior colleague, Bahadur Prasad tanking a race in the 1995 Nationals at Jamshedpur.ResultsMen: 100: Anil Kumar 10.67 sec; Yousef Dehmiri (Iran) 10.80; Ajay Raj Singh 10.83. 200: Anil Kumar 21.28; Jata Shankar 21.58; Anand Menezes 21.59. 400: P Ramachandran 46.88; Jata Shankar 47.51; Simon Kembol (Ken). 400 II: Dinesh Rawat 48.08; Arun P 48.32; Anil Mathew 48.65. 3000: Jafar Baba Khani (Iran) 8:10.63; N Gojen Singh 8:13.14; Satish Kumar 8:16.37. Hammer: Pramod Tiwari 64.92m; Virender Poonia 64.89; Rupinderpal Singh 61.39. Javelin: BS Dubey 76.75; Ramandeep Singh 73.75; Sunil Goswami 70.32. Shot put: Shakti Singh 19.21m; Jagbir Singh 18.11; Jaiveer Singh 17.52. Discus: Leonid Tcherevko (Blr) 56.70; Shakti Singh 55.60; Ajit Bhaduria 54.32. Long jump: Sanjay Kumar Rai 7.82; Arnaud Casquette (Mau) 7.67; Satish Kumar 7.42.Women: 100: Vinita Tripathi 12.02; Saraswati Dey 12.09;Vijayalakshmi 12.13. 200: PT Usha 24.10; MK Syamanthaghm 24.38; Paramjeet Kaur 25.19. 400: KM Beenamol 53.97; K Manjuma 54.84; MK Syamanrhakam 55.65. 1500: Sunita Rani 4:17.11; Tatyana Buloickyk (Blr) 4:21.26; AS Madhuri 4:24.24. Discus: Neelam J Singh 56.04; Harjeet Kaur 54.32; Saroj Kumar 51.78.
