Pune emerge overall champs

Pune, october 22: A Lthough hosts Pune District retained the overall general championship trophy for the second year in succession, the co...

Pune, october 22: A Lthough hosts Pune District retained the overall general championship trophy for the second year in succession, the concluding day8217;s thunder was shared by Pravita Kaushik of Mumbai City District and Megha Ingale of Solapur who created new meet marks in girls under-22 section in the Maharashtra State senior and boys and girls under-22 athletic championship which concluded at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports City Mahalunge-Balewadi near here on Sunday.

Mumbai City won the men8217;s general championship mustering a tally of 126 points while hosts Pune were runners-up with 90 points.

Pune won the women8217;s general championship aggregating 93 points and getting the better of Mumbai City who totalled 45 points. The boys under-22 title was claimed by Pune with 136 points to Mumbai Suburban8217;s 54 points and in the corresponding girls section, Pune scored 100 points while Mumbai City could collect 45 points only.

Pune athletes showed their awesome power coming on top in the women8217;s as well as boys and girls under-22 sections and finishing runners-up to Mumbai City in the men8217;s section to lift the development Credit Bank Limited DCBL general championship trophy aggregating a tally of 419 points.

The wonder boy of Pune, Sachin Navale, who won the 100 metres sprint in record time of 10.7 seconds on Saturday, capped it up by winning the 200 metres sprint stopping the clock at 22.5 seconds and in the process completed a fine double in the boys under-22 section.

Pravita, the gangling lass, won the 400 metres run clocking 58.3 seconds and in the process improved on the previous record of 59.4 seconds standing in the name of Leena Chavan of Mumbai City established in 1998.

The slightly built Ingale was head and shoulders above the rest to win the demanding 10-km walk event in a time of 1:09:15 and in the bargain bettered the standing record of 1:10:35 created by Shikha Savak in 1995.

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The results:
Men8217;s: 5000 metres: 1. Dattatraya Jayabhai Pune 15:33:06, 2. Dhanpal Alondgavar Sangli, 3. Vijay Kashte Mumbai City. 400m: 1. Biju Thomar Mumbai City 50.5 seconds, 2. Briston Miranda Mumbai City, 3. Shahji Patil Thane. 20 km walk: 1. Parminder singh Mumbai Suburban 2:02:53, 2. Wasim Shaikh Pune, 3. Firoze Khan Pune. Shot put: 1. Arun Achil Mumbai City 12.84 metres, 2. Yogesh Jagdeep Pune, 3. Shekhar Samant Sindhudurg. 110m hurdles: 1. Liyakat Shaikh Solapur, 2. Siddharth Chandrachud Pune, 3. Gaurav Kulkarni Pune. 200m: 1. Mehernosh Bambot Mumbai City 22.5 sec, 2. Ajit Limaye Pune, 3. Rohit Ghag Pune.Women8217;s: 5000m: 1. Madhuri Gurnule Nagpur 17:05:05, 2. Sharada Gavande Mumbai ccity, 3. Vijaya Sonawane Nagpur. 400m: 1. Archana Palashetkar Mumbai City 59.00 sec, 2. Ujwala Bhosekar Solapur, 3. Sarika Shitole Pune. 100m hurdles: 1. Arifa Shaikh Pune 15.8 sec, 2. Sonali Lanjekar Mumbai City, 3. Taslim Rafique Pune. 10 km walk: 1. Pratibha Mahamuni Pune 1:15:27, 2. Shital Gurav Mumbai Suburban, 3. Tanavi Deshmukh Pune. Hammer throw: 1. Vardha Ratan Pune 40.84m, 2. Snehal Pawar Solapur.

Boys u-22: Long jump:
1. Sunil Danti Mumbai City 6.58m, 2. Sandeep Parmar Sangli, 3. Srinath Barade Pune. 5000m: 1. Shrishail Maindargi Nagpur 15:18:00, 2. Arvind Shah Mumbai City, 3. Baliram Disale Mumbai Suburban. 400m: 1. Manoj Ghode Nagpur 50.00 sec, 2. Anand Kibile Pune, 3. harbhushan Singh Mumbai City. 20 km walk: 1. Zakir Khan Pune 2:15:21. 110m hurdles: 1. Shivraj Navale Pune 14.9 sec, 2. Sandeep Parmar Sangli, 3. Vitthal Rathod Pune. 200m: 1. Sachin Navale Pune 22.5 sec, 2. Tushar Sutar Pune, 3. Nitin Kukudkar Nagpur.

Girls u-22: 5000m: 1. Bindu Mathwu Mumbai City 18:36.01, 2. Ashwini Dukandar Sangli, 3. Manisha Shigvan Mumbai City. 400m: 1. Pravita Kaushik Mumbai Suburban 58.3 sec, 2. Kshitija Dixit Pune, 3. Swati Mali Sangli. High jump: 1. Sarita Patil Sangli 1.73m, 2. Limika Takale Pune, 3. Archana Kale Pune. 10km walk: 1. Megha Ingale Solapur 1:09:15, 2. Sumitra Kadam Solapur, 3. Reshma Palkar Sindhudurg. 200m: 1. Kavita Pandya Mumbai City 24.9 sec, 2. Pravita kaushik Mumbai Suburban, 3. Nivedita Khardekar Than.