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CHANDIGARH, Feb 23: Jaswinder Kaur, a BA part I student capped in a brilliant performance to win four gold medals, thus earning her the b...

CHANDIGARH, Feb 23: Jaswinder Kaur, a BA part I student capped in a brilliant performance to win four gold medals, thus earning her the best athlete award in the Governemt College for Girls, Sector 42 Annual Athletic Meet, held at the college premises here today.

Jaswinder got first positions in three track events 8211; 100, 200 and 400 metres. Her fourth gold medal came in the long jump event.

Upneet of B Com part I, took home gold medals in shot put and discus throw events. RK Rao, Deputy Commissioner-cum-Director Sports, Chandigarh Administration gave away the prizes to winners.

Results
100m: 1 Jaswinder BA I, 2 Kanwal BA II, 3 Rupinder BA III. 200m: 1 Jaswinder BA I, 2 Kanwal BA II, 3 Gurpreet BA I. 400m: 1 Jaswinder BA I, 2 Poonam BA I, 3 Gurpreet BA I. Long jump: 1 Jaswinder BA I, 2 Rupinder BA III, 3 Monika BA II and Kiran BSc III. High jump: 1 Rupinder BA III, 2 Neelam BA II, 3 Gurpreet BA III. Shot put: 1 Upneet B Com I, 2 Tina B Com I, 3 Manpreet B Com III. Discus throw: 1 Upneet B Com I, 2 Rajinder BA I, 3 Tina B Com I. Javelin throw: 1 Rajinder BA I, 2 Rosy BA I, 3 Simran BA I. Sack race: 1 Pooja Mittal B Com I, 2 Ponnam BA I, 3 Gurpreet BA I. Slow cycling: 1 Kanwal BA II, 2 Simandeep BA I, 3 Ritu BSc III.

Mahajan refutes
Surinder Mahajan, badminton coach, has clarified that he was not involved in the selection of the Combined Universities badminton team for which participated in the National meet held recently at New Delhi.

Ha said that the Association of Indian Universities had sent an invitation to Calicut University, winners of the Inter-Varsity meet, to send their players for trials. Failing to get any response from them, AIU then asked the runners-up, Panjab University shuttlers.

The members of the team were selected by the AIU, he further clarified, thus discounting his role.

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