Kerala retain overall supremacy

January 12: Kerala retained the overall supremacy, securing 378 points as curtains came down on the 14th Inter-State Junior Athletic Cham...

January 12: Kerala retained the overall supremacy, securing 378 points as curtains came down on the 14th Inter-State Junior Athletic Championship at the Barabati Stadium here on Tuesday.

Athletes from Kerala bagged 23 gold, 19 silver and equal number of bronze medals to top the table. West Bengal with 238 points (11 gold, seven silver, five bronze) finished second, followed by Karnataka (10 gold, 13 silver, 11 bronze) with 230 points.

In all 20 new records were set in the four-day meet, out of which the closing day’s share was six.

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Andhra Pradesh sprinter emerged S Geetha the most successful athlete as she completed a golden treble.

Results:

Boys U-20: 10km Walk: 1. Gurudev Singh (Pun) 46:00.8s, 2. K Inocha Singh (Bih) 46:46.40s, 3. Jaga Singh (Pun) 49:51.5s;

Shotput: 1. Kuldeep Manon (Del) 15.38m, 2. Amarjit Singh (Pun) 15.21m, 3. Rajesh (Har) 14.71m; 1500m: 1. Manjunath (Kar) 4:00.70s, 2. Amandeep Singh (Pun) 4:02.07s, 3. Santosh KJ (Ker) 4:02.47s; 200m: 1. Sree Kumar PT (Ker) 22.09s, 2.Jipson Jacob (Ker) 22.23s, 3. Parameshwara (Kar) 22.42s; High jump: 1. Roshan KR (Ker) 2.07m (New Record; Previous record: 2.06 by Sunil Azad, 1996), 2. Julfikar Haque Mandal (WB) 1.99m, 3. Rajanikant (TN) 1.96m.

U-18: 1500m:1. Parmik Singh (Cha) 4:05.37s, 2. Ramlal Hembram (Bih) 4:06.15s, 3. C Hamza (Ker) 4:07.21s; 200m:1. Rajesh Appu (TN) 22.35s, 2. Jagpreet Singh (Pun) 22.46s, 3. Jaspreet Singh (Pun) 22.84s; Pole vault:1. Virendra Singh (Guj) 4.20m, 2. Parveen (Har) 4.00m, 3. Jagbir Singh (Guj) 3.90m; 4x400m Relay:

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1. Kerala – 3:23.42s (New record; Previous record: 3:23.55s by East Zone, 1995), 2. Tamil Nadu – 3:25.23s, 3. Karnataka – 3:25.60s; Discus:1. Jaiveer (Raj) 52.00m, 2. Maxon Furtado (Mah) 51.72m, 3. Surinder (Har) 51.24m; Heptathlon: 1. Rajesh (Har) 6151pts (New Meet Record; Previous record: 5625pts by KG Biju, 1996), 2. Ravi Inderpal Singh (UP) 5839pts, 3. Binoop Thampi (Ker) 5796pts.

(U-16): 4x100m Relay:1. Orissa 44.32s, 2 Kerala 44.49s, 3. Uttar Pradesh 44.81s;400m:

1. P Shanker (AP) 50.20s (New Record; Previous record: 50.80s by Javed Yusuf at New Delhi, 1996), 2. Sameer Kispotta (MP) 50.32s, 3. D Srinivas Rao (Ori) 50.19s;

JJavelin:1. Asis Mallick (WB) 57.34m, 2. Om Narayan (Har) 56.80m, 3. Dhanjay Singh (Bih) 53.84m; 100m Hurdles: 1. P Shanker (AP) 13.67s (New meet record; Previous record: 13.68s by Biswajit Das at New Delhi, 1996), 2. Fatu Majhi (Ori) 13.94s, 3. A Sangra Meswara (AP) 14.06s.

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GIRLS U-20: 3,000m: 1. Sabita Biswas (WB) 10:13.2s, 2. Amarjit Kaur (Pur) 10:22.9s, 3. Jisha Thomas (Ker) 10:26.3s; 5km Walk: 1. Sulochana Barik (WB) 28:06.0s, 2. A Shalini (Kar) 28:52.2s, 3. Ritubala (Pun) 31:06.3s; 1500m:

1. Paramjit Kaur (Pun) 4:45.5s, 2. Sabita Biswas (WB) 4:48.5s, 3. Sobha Yadav (MP) 4:52.0s; 200m: 1. Poonam Belliappa (Kar) 25.13s, 2. Sanghamitra Lenka (Ori) 25.23s, 3. Mandeep Kaur (Pun) 25.28s; Shotput:

1. Saroj (Har) 12.29m, 2. T Bhanupriya (TN) 11.83m, 3. Archana Bari (Bih) 11.68m; Triple jump:

1. Reena Thomas(Ker) 12.24m, 2. Sheeba Mathew (Ker) 11.96m, 3. Shilpa Sequera (Kar) 11.77m; Heptathlon:

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1. Ashikbeevi PJ (Ker) 4324pts, 2. Punam (Har) 4169pts, 3. R Sneha Princy (TN) 4080pts.

U-18: 1500m:

1. Swati Gurnule (Mah) 4:41.19s (New record; Previous record: 4:44.40s by KR Rashmi, 1990), 2. Kalpana More (Mah) 4:47.21s, 3. Sumalatha RV (Kar) 4:50.14s; 200m:

1. S Geetha (AP) 25.09s (New Meet Record; Previous record: 25.20s by V Pandeswari, 1996), 2. G Bindu Rani (Kar) 25.21s, 3. Manisha VM (Ker) 25.66s; Triple jump:

1. Smitha Francis (Ker) 11.67m, 2. Shahanas Suleiman (Ker) 11.40m, 3. Noosheen Rajendran (TN) 11.34m; 4x400m Relay:

1. Kerala – 4:01.90s, 2. Orissa – 4:09.13s, 3. Tamil Nadu – 4:10.00s; Heptathlon:

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1. Remya Regunath (Ker) 3771pts, 2. S Anuradha (TN) 3489pts, 3. Kumari Sweta Singh (MP) 3301pts.

(U-16): Long jump:

1. Ruta Patkar (Mah) 5.73m (New record; Previous record: 5.59m by Kalpana Das at New Delhi, 1996), 2. Neema Jayappa (Ker) 5.54m, 3. Nisha John (Ker)5.47m; 4x100m Relay:

1. Kerala – 49.74s (New record; Previous record: 50.03s by Karnataka, 1997), 2. West Bengal – 50.95s, 3. Karnataka 50.10s; 400m:

1. S Ambika (Kar) 1:00.07s, 2. Banamol PS (Ker) 1:00.64s, 3. Veena Yadav (Cha) 1:00.78s; 100m Hurdles:

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1. Anju Alex (Ker) 15.57s, 2. Tusi Desmukh (WB) 16.18s, 3. Ruta Patkar (Mah) 16.32s.