Guwahati, November 15: Haryana’s Sanyam impressed in winning the U20 men’s Shot Put title in the 37th AFI National Junior Athletics Championships at the Athletics Stadium in SAI Regional Centre here today. His winning effort of 19.10m on his opening try also enabled him to emerge the best male athlete in his age group.
The others who won the best athlete awards were Shaili Singh (Uttar Pradesh) in U20 women, Atul (Haryana) and Unnathi Aiyyappa (Karnataka) in U18 men and women, Ommkar Prasad Nanda (Odisha) and Rezoana Mallick Heena (West Bengal) in U16 boys and girls and Nishchay (Haryana) and Tanu Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh) in the U14 boys and girls.
On the final day of the Championships which saw 39 finals across the four age groups, as many as six meet records were broken. However, Haryana’s U16 High Jumper Pooja had the distinction of being the only one to claim a National Record. She cleared 1.76m to improve on the 1.73m mark set by Pavana Nagaraj at the Sarusajai Stadium here last year.
The results (finals):
Under 20
Men
200m: 1. Sumit Mondol (West Bengal) 21.62 seconds; 2. Kapil (Haryana) 21.67; 3. Abhijeet Singh Langeh (Jammu and Kashmir) 21.75.
800m: 1. Pradeep Senthilkumar (Tamil Nadu) 1:48.88 (New Meet Record. Old: 1:50.96, Sajeesh Joseph, Bengaluru, 2006); 2. Somnath Chauhan (Haryana) 1:49.85; 3. Arjun Waskale (Madhya Pradesh) 1:51.18.
5000m: 1. Dushyant Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 14:44.19; 2. Narsingh Patel (Karnataka) 14:45.18; 3. Arun Shankar Malavi (Karnataka) 14:49.41.
3000m Steeplechase: 1. Mohit (Haryana) 9:16.46 (New Meet Record. Old: 9:18.19, Naresh, Lucknow, 2012); 2. Dhuladev Baban Ghagar (Maharashtra) 9:18.74; 3. Vinit Rathi (Uttar Pradesh) 9:19.31.
400m Hurdles: 1. Karna Bag (West Bengal) 52.10 seconds; 2. Hardeep Kumar (Punjab) 52.89; 3. Devram Rathava (Gujarat) 53.19.
Hammer Throw: 1. Mohammad Shahban (Uttar Pradesh) 69.23m; 2. Vipin Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 64.05; 3. Neeraj (Haryana) 61.85.
Shot Put: 1. Sanyam (Haryana) 19.10m; 2. Rudra Narayan Pandey (Uttar Pradesh) 18.39; 3. Jaidev Dikka (Delhi) 18.21.
Javelin Throw: 1. Vikash Sharma (Uttarakhand) 71.21m; 2. Shivam Lohakare (Maharashtra) 70.03; 3. Manbir Singh (Haryana) 69.15.
Triple Jump: 1. Akhilesh (Karnataka) 15.99m; 2. Sukhpreet Singh (Punjab) 15.63; 3. Jwngsar Basumatary (Assam) 15.57.
4x400m Relay: 1. Haryana (Gurvinder Singh, Sumit, Kapil, Deepak Rohilla) 3:13.11; 2. Tamil Nadu 3:14.86; 3. Punjab 3:16.14.
Women
200m: 1. Sudeshna Hanmant Shivankar (Maharashtra) 24.34 seconds; 2. Nayana…
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