Spectacular: Odisha’s Pratik Maharana clocked his private finest (21.28) whereas claiming the win.
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Native favorite Pratik Maharana defied a sore again to script a brand new meet file whereas securing the under-18 males’s 200m gold medal on the concluding day of the Nationwide junior athletics championships on the Kalinga Stadium right here on Wednesday.
Operating in good rhythm, Maharana held on to his lead confidently as he lowered his private finest from 21.41, clocked on the South Asian junior meet in Chennai in September, to 21.28 to file a formidable victory.
“I did mild coaching to steadiness my rehab and preparation for this competitors. I used to be aiming for the Nationwide file (21.08), however needed to accept the meet file,” stated 17-year-old Maharana, coaching at Rourkela.
Sumit Rathee (8:45.75) received by a margin of greater than 11 seconds whereas main a pack of 4 runners, who smashed the meet file in under-20 males’s 3000m steeplechase.
Haryana’s Sumit Rathee (No. 706) received the gold within the males’s U-20 3000m steeplechase remaining.
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Nationwide file holder Deepika (52.45m) rewrote the meet file together with her second throw as she claimed the under-20 girls’s javelin title.
Sakshi Chavan, who took the under-20 100m gold, switched to under-18 200m to choose up her second gold with a meet file (24.14).
Homeboy Dondapati Mrutyam Jayaram – who added the under-20 200m crown to his 100m title – and Prachi Devkar, making her Nationwide debut within the 3000m steeplechase after successful the 5000m yellow metallic, additionally snatched their second gold medals.
Haryana took the staff championships in each women and men.
The outcomes: Winners solely:
Below-20: Males: 200m: Dondapati Mrutyam Jayaram (Odi) 21.27, 800m: Bejoy Okay. (Ker) 1:50.84; 400m hurdles: Arjun Pradeep (Ker) 51.75; 3000m steeplechase: Sumit Rathee (Har) 8:45.75 (NMR, Previous, 9:00.66, Gaurav Yadav, 2023); 4x400m relay: Tamil Nadu 3:46.01; Triple soar: Mohammed Muhassin (Ker) 15.78m; Javelin: Rohan Yadav (UP) 69.73m.
Girls: 200m: Sakshi Chavan (Guj) 24.14 (NMR, Previous, 24.24, Jisna Mathew, 2017); 800m: Laxmipriya Kisan (Odi) 2:14.44; 400m hurdles: Sreevarthani S.Okay. (TN) 1:00.61; 3000m steeplechase: Prachi Devkar (Mah) 10:41.07; 4x400m relay: Tamil Nadu 3:13.53; Triple soar: Rishika Awasthi (UP) 12.37m; Javelin: Deepika (Har) 52.46 (NMR, Previous, 49.05, Pushpa Jakhar, 2016).
Deepika from Haryana in motion in the course of the U-20 javelin throw remaining.
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Below-18: Males: 200m: Pratik Maharana (Odi) 21.28 (NMR, Previous, 21.34, Shanmuga Srinivas, 2019); Shot put: Ommkar Prasad Nanda (Odi) 19.96m; Girls: 200m: Nipam (UP) 24.74.
Greatest athletes: U-20: Males: Jay Kumar (400m), Girls: Sakshi Chavan (200m); U-18: Males: Kiran Okay. (110m hurdles), Girls: Abinaya Rajarajan (100m); U-16: Boys: Dhairya Bhanderi (javelin), Ladies: Shourya Ambure (60m); U-14: Boys: Bhiky Barman (javelin), Ladies: Minakshi (javelin).
Revealed – December 11, 2024 07:35 pm IST