Bengaluru: With over 1700 athletes from the country coming under one roof and competing in the National junior athletics championships, the past four days has been nothing short of a carnival.
As the sun set over the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Saturday, Kerala athletes had the biggest smiles on their face retaining the overall championship crown, for an amazing 17th triumph in 18 years on the final day of the five-day meet.
Kerala finished with 585 points with their closest rival Tamil Nadu a distant second in 362 points.
Karnataka, who were way behind the champs in the medal tally, finishing fifth with 182.5 points, did have their moment of glory.
Home boy Saleem Sheikh battled fatigue and fever to claim the 200M gold in 22.2 seconds in the U-20 category.
While Saleem always believed that he had what it takes to beat the best, the PUC student (commerce) from Kengeri whose best is 21.9 seconds, felt he could have done better.
Meanwhile Vijayakumari.G.K added a silver to her second day’s gold in the 200M clocking 25.66 in the U-18 event behind Shaharbana Sidhique of Kerala.
The Karnataka girls U-20 relay then boosted the tally taking the silver behind Kerala. Sriom Patel (U-20, 10000M), Mahender Singh (U20, 3000M steeplech) and Namitha G.K (U-18 Shotput), rounded the medal tally for the hosts with silver on the final day.
Meanwhile, Sumit Malik of Himachal Pradesh and S. Archana were adjudged the best athlete in U-20 boys and girls’ respectively.
As many before them, the youngsters also pushed the boundaries as some attempted and few conquered the national and meet records.
Kerela’s Jessy Joseph who already holds the national record of 2:08:67 in the U-18 800M sprint, bettered her own mark by two milliseconds while Chandan Bauri of West Bengal broke the national record in 200M (U-16), clocking 22.11 seconds.
Swapna Barman, who had set a new mark in high jump two days ago, erased the national record of 4983 points held by Pooja in U-18 heptathlon, racking up a point tally of 4992, also her personal best, to write her name in the record books.
S. Mohd. Zuber (TN), Parul (UP) also set new meet records in U-18 triple jump and U-20 2000M steeplechase respectively.
R Re es su ul lt ts s: : B Bo oy ys s: : U U– –2 20 0: : 2 20 00 0M M: :1. Saleem Sheikh (Kar) 22.27, 2. Mahavir (Har) 22.34, 3. M.Rathan Kumar (AP) 22.46; 1 10 00 00 00 0M M: : 1. Rajendra Bind (UP) 32:26.91, 2.Sriom Patel (Kar) 32:28.19, 3. Pravin (Del) 33:13.53; 8 80 00 0M M: : 1. Lalit Mathur (Del) 1:54.35, 2. Lovepreet Singh (Pun) 1:55.14, 3. Arjun Khokar (Har) 1:55.30; J Ja av ve el li in n T Th hr ro ow w: : 1. Rajesh Kumar Bind (UP) 74.52M, 2.Satyendra Kumar (UP) 68.07M; 3.
Jeetu Kedia (Odi) 66.64M; 4 4 x x 4 40 00 0M M R Re el la ay y: : 1. Kerala 3:15.71, A.K.Raghu, N.Manjunath, Rahul.D.R, Jagadeesh Chandra (Kar) 3:17.75, Tamil Nadu 3:19.28; 3 30 00 00 0M M. .S St te ee ep pl le ec ch h: : M.Naresh (AP) 9:26.62, 2. Mahender Singh (Kar) 9:32.84, 3.Nagaraj Khurasne (MAH) 9:45.70 U U– –1 18 8: : 3 30 00 00 0M M: : 1. Arjun Kumar (UP) 8:39.30, 2.Abhishek Paul (Asm) 8:40.45, 3. Rahul P.R.(Ker) 8:52.93, 2 20 00 0M M: : 1. Mohit (Har) 21.78, 2.
R.Mohan Kumar (TN) 22.07, 3.B.Karthikeyan (Pond) 22.32; T Tr ri ip pp pl le e J Ju um mp p: : 1. S.Mohd.Zuber (TN) 15.50M (N.M.R O.R 15.11M) 2. S o n u Kumar (Raj) 15.08M, 3. Anand (Har) 15.01M; 800M: 1.Muhammed Rashid (Ker) 1:56.47, 2. Rajesh Sharma (Guj) 1:56.54, 3.Parvesh Panwar (Del) 1:57.65; J Ja av ve el li in n T Th hr ro ow w: : 1. Jena Chinmaya Ranjan (Odi) 65.09M, 2. Vikrant Malik (Har) 63.96M, 3. Mulayam Singh (Pondi) 63.29M; 2 20 00 00 0M M. .
S St te ee ep pl le ec ch h: : 1. Shijo Rajan (Ker) 6:09.59, 2. Hari Baksh Singh(UP) 6:14.73s, 3. M.Harya (AP) 6:21.29.
U U– –1 16 6: : 2 20 00 0M M: : 1. Chandan Bauri (WB) 22.11 (N.R, O.R: 22.30), 2.Bhoite Kshitij Gajanan (Mah) 22.37, 3. M.S.ARUN (TN) 22.43; 3 30 00 00 0M M: : 1. Kisan Narshi Tadvi (Mah) 8:47.02; 2.Yadav Dharmendra Kumar (UP) 8:53.44, 3.Vijay Rathi (Del) 9:00.12.
G Gi ir rl ls s: : U U– –2 20 0: : H Ha am mm me er r T Th hr ro ow w: : 1. Reena (Har) 44.95M; 2. Shradha Tiwari (Del) 44.65M, 3. J.Karthika(TN) 43.62M; 2 20 00 0M M: : 1. Archana.S (TN) 24.61; 2. Rengitha.C (Ker) 24.94, 3.Ruma Sarkar (WB) 25.24; 3 30 00 00 0M M: : 1. Priti Lamba (Har) 10:14.20, 2.Pooja Warade (Mah) 10:15.58, 3.Thara.M.D (Ker) 10:35.44; H Hi ig gh h J Ju um mp p: : 1. Angel P.Devasya (Ker) 1.66M, 2. K.Lavanya (TN) 1.63M, 3. Jyothi (Har) 1.63M; 8 80 00 0M M: : 1.
Chitra.P.U (Ker) 2:13.24, 2.Pramila Yadav (UP) 2:14.07, 3.
Komal Chodhary (Har) 2:14.73; T Tr ri ip pp pl le e J Ju um mp p: : 1. Mohammed Salahuddin (TN) 15.71M, 2. Sumit Choudhary (Raj) 15.35M, 3. Abin.B (Ker) 15.28M; 2 20 00 00 0M M. . S St te ee ep pl le ec ch h: : 1.Parul (UP) 7:11.88 (N.M.R, O.R 7:33.87), 2. Safeeda M.P. (Ker) 7:11.89, 3.Vibitha P.D (Ker) 7:37.89; 4 x 4 40 00 0m m R Re el la ay y: : 1. Kerala 4:00.46, 2.Nithyashree.A, Meghana.K.R, Roha.H.C, Yashaswini.K (Kar) 4:07.91, 3. AP 4:20.21.
U U– –1 18 8: : 2 20 00 0M M: : 1.Shaharbana Sidhique (Ker) 25.51; 2.Vijayakumari.G (Kar) 25.66; 3.A.Chandralekha (TN) 25.84; 5 50 00 00 0M M W Wa al lk k: : 1. Neena K.T (Ker) 26:24.69; 2. Binsy.A.M (Ker) 27:06.15; 3.Priyanka (UP) 28:05.99; 8 80 00 0M M: : 1. Jessy Joseph (Ker) 2:08.65 (N.M.R, N.R, O.R 2:08.67, 2. Therese Joseph (Ker) 2:11.45; 3. Sugandha (UP) 2:18.00; 2 20 00 00 0M M. .S St te ee ep pl le ec ch h: : 1. Pooja Kumari (Utr) 7:35.41, 2. Sruthi.M.S (Ker) 7:38.24, 3. Akshaya A.S(Ker) 7:58.72; S Sh ho ot tp pu ut t: : 1. Meghana Devang (Mah) 14.82M, 2.Namitha.G.K (Kar) 13.46M, 3.K.Subhashini (TN) 12.88M; H He ep pt ta at th hl lo on n: : 1. Swapna Barman (WB) 4992 Points. (N.R, O.R 4983 Pts), 2. Rajeshwari Bhoi (Odi) 4756 Pts, 3. M.Sowmiya (TN) 4498pts.
U U– –1 16 6: : 2 20 00 0M M: : 1. Jisna Mathew (Ker) 25.35, 2. Tiasha Samadder (WB) 26.02, 3.Siddhi Hiray (Mah) 26.13; P Pe en nt ta at th hl lo on n: : 1. C.Kanimozhi (TN) 2904 pts, 2. K.Naveena (TN) 2702 Pts, 3.Trisha Dhar (WB) 2617 Pts.
T Te ea am m C Ch ha am mp pi io on ns sh hi ip p: : B Bo oy ys s: : U U– – 2 20 0: : Kerala – 84, Haryana–61, U U– –1 18 8: : Kerala– 75, U.P.–65; U U– –1 16 6: : Haryana–48, Tamil Nadu– 43; U U– –1 14 4: : Haryana– 22, U.P.-16; G Gi ir rl ls s: : U U-2 20 0: : Kerala–155, Tamil Nadu–54; U U– –1 18 8: : Kerala–133, Tamil Nadu–65; U U– –1 16 6: : Tamil Nadu– 68, Kerala–66; U U– –1 14 4: : Tamil Nadu –34, Kerala18.
B Be es st t A At th hl le et te es s: : B Bo oy ys s: : U U– –2 20 0: : Sumit Malik (HP): 1031 Points; U U– –1 18 8: : Nirbhay Singh (HAR): 1049 points; U U– –1 16 6: : Mankirat Singh (Pun) 1062 points; U U– –1 14 4: : Sourav (Har) 1041 points.
G Gi ir rl ls s: : U U– –2 20 0: : S.Archana (TN) 1046 points; U U– –1 18 8: : G.Karthika (TN) 994 points; U U– –1 16 6: : Tiasha Samadder (WB) 941 points; U U– –1 14 4: : Maharshi Baluda (Del) 852 points.
O Ov ve er ra al ll l T Te ea am m C Ch ha am mp pi io on ns sh hi ip p: : 1.
Kerala : 585 points; 2. Tamil Nadu: 362 points.
