Karamjit Kaur (© Ram. PMurali Krishnan)
Karamjit Kaur of Punjab Police vaulted over 3.50 metres to improve her own national mark by 5 cms and Y.Bala Devi representing West Bengal walked 4 minutes faster than the existing record in the grueling 20,000m walk on the concluding day of the 9th Federation Cup Senior Athletic Meet here yesterday.
The G.M.C. Balayogi Stadium in Gachibowli near here, which had been the venue for the inaugural Asian Grand Prix Meet and last year’s National Games and which will be the main stadium for the inaugural Afro-Asian Games in October this year, witnessed a rather disappointing turnout of star athletes in the three day FedCup meet.
The reason for this was that many Indian athletes preferred to stay away from this Meet in order to save their energy to peak at the time of the Asian Championships rather than attempt to qualify for the World Championships.
However, at least one athlete tried with determination for the Paris standard. The brave woman high jumper Bobby Aloysius narrowly missed the norm of 1.92m after having sailed over the cross bar at 1.89m for a seasonal best. This victory however earned her the best athlete of the meet on the women’s side.
Kuldeep Kumar of Uttar Pradesh who won a distance double was adjudged best male athlete of the FedCup.
The men’s 400m hurdles and decathlon saw keen contests.
The Asian Games silver medallist Madhuri A. Singh took advantage of favourite Sunita Rani’s absence to win a middle distance double.
Karnataka’s B. Hemalatha won the women’s 3,000m steeplechase event, which was introduced at the national level for the first time at this meet.
J.J. Shobha of host state Andhra Pradesh had won a double by winning the Heptathlon and the Long Jump with modest performances in the absence of national record holders Soma Biswas and Anju B. George.
Anju, ranked ninth in the IAAF world rankings, continues her training stint with world record holder Mike Powell (not with Larry Myricks as wrongly reported earlier) and is currently competing on the European circuit.
The Indian Army won the men’s team title while the Punjab Police took the women’s team and overall championship titles in the FedCup.
Results:
Men:
100m (28): 1. Sandeep Sarkaria (Del) 10.51; 2. Sanjay Ghosh (Army) 10.52; 3. Piyush Kumar (Del) 10.61;
200m (30): 1. Anil Kumar (Army) 20.95; 2. Sanjay Ghosh (Army) 21.02; 3. Amit Saha (WB) 21.15;
400m (29): 1. K.J. Manoj Lal (Ker) 46.84; 2. Satbir Singh (Army) 47.5919; 3. Anil Kumar Rohil (Army) 47.5962;
800m (30): 1. P.S. Primesh (Ker) 1:49.16; 2. S.J. Suesh (Army) 1:51.55; 3. Narayan Singh (Maha) 1:52.22
1500m (28): 1. Kuldeep Kumar (UP) 3:50.63; 2. Pritam Bind (Utr) 3:52.73; 3. Sunil Kumar (Har) 3:52.96;
5000m (29): 1. Kuldeep Kumar (UP) 14:34.06; 2. Sunil Kumar (Har) 14:57.77; 3. Pritam Bind (UA) 15:20.64;
10,000m (28): 1. I.A. Shivananda (AP) 32:31.32; 2. Baliram Disale (Maha) 32:33.94; 3. Soji Mathew (Ker) 32:34.93;
110m Hurdles (29): 1. Naunidh Singh (BSF) 14.21; 2. K. Krishnamohan (Army) 14.54; 3. Prasad Reddy (Army) 14.64;
400m Hurdles (30): 1. Prasad Reddy (Army) 51.24; 2. P. Shankar (AP) 51.53; 3. Ranjodh Singh (PP) 52.09;
3000m Steeplechase (30): 1. Arun D'Souza (AP) 8:52.21; 2. Ranjan Kumar Jha (Army) 9:10.81; 3. R .Suresh (Army) 9:16.48;
HJ (29): 1. G. Benedict Starli (TN) 2.11; 2. Harishankar Roy (WB) 2.08; 3. Vinod Kumar (Del) & K.R. Roshan (Ker) 2.08;
PV (30): 1. Geesh Kumar (Ker) 4.90; 2. Shamsher Singh 4.85; 3. Gajanan Kumar Upadhaya (UP) 4.80;
LJ (29): 1. Amritpal Singh (PP) 7.79; 2. Wayne Peppin (TN) 7.75; 3. Venguopal (AP) 7.52;
TJ (30): 1. K.C. Santison (Army) 15.47; 2. Shyju (Kerala) 15.46; 3. Prithpal Singh (PP) 15.36;
SP (28): 1. Jaiveer Singh (Army) 18.30; 2. Kulwinder Singh (PP) 17.88; 3. Malkhan Singh (Har) 17.62;
DT (29): 1. Devender Singh (PP) 53.01; 2. Gurusevak Singh (PP) 52.88; 3. Ranbir Singh (Army) 51.97;
HT (30): 1. Rakesh Kumar (UP) 66.44; 2. Nirbhay Singh (Navy) 64.50; 3. Kulwinder Singh (AAFI) 64.06;
JT (28): 1. Md.Fazal Ansari (Army) 75.07; 2. Ramandeep Singh (PP) 73.96; 3. Lijesh Kumar (Army) 73.29;
Decathlon (29): 1. Kulwinder Singh (Army) 7140; 2. P.J. Vinod (Ker) 6729; 3. Dhananjay Kumar Rai (UP) 6466;
20,000m Walk (29): 1. Gurudev Singh (Army) 1::31:33.9; 2. Sita Ram (Army) 1::31:50.6; 3. Gurmeet Singh (PP) 1::33:49.2;
4x100m (30): 1. Army 40.95; 2. Andhra Pradesh 42.01; 3. Punjab Police 42.23;
4x400m (30): 1. Army 3:12.98; 2. Punjab Police 3:15.52; 3. Andhra Pradesh 3:15.53;
Women:
100m (28): 1. Rakhi Saha (WB) 12.06; 2. Mukti Saha (WB) 12.12; 3. K.M. Greeshma (Ker) 12.16;
200m (30): 1. Manjit Kaur (PP) 23.79; 2. Mukti Saha (WB) 24.11; 3. Sagardeep Kaur (PP) 24.33;
400m (29): 1. S. Geetha (AP) 53.73; 2. Mukti Saha (WB) 54.01; 3. Sagardeep Kaur (PP) 54.60;
800m (30): 1. Madhuri A. Singh (EB) 2:03.70; 2. Pinki Paramanik (WB) 2:05.15; 3. S. Santhi (TN) 2:09.44;
1500m (28): 1. Madhuri A. Singh (EB) 4:26.18; 2. Hemalatha (Kan) 4:32.98; 3. S.Santhi (TN) 4:45.75;
5000m (29): 1. Madhuri Gurnule (Maha) 17:31.93; 2. L. Manjula (Kar) 17:58.61; 3. Vanita Thakur (AP) 18:21.47;
10,000m (28): 1. L. Aruna Devi (WB) 36:32.66; 2. Ashwini Dukander (Maha) 39:13.93; 3. Basanti Biswas (W B) 40:02.39;
100m Hurdles (29): 1. K.N. Priya (TN) 14.56; 2. Deepti Vaidya (ONGC) 14.80;3. Rajwinder Kaur (PP) 15.15;
400m Hurdles (30): 1. Roseline Arockiamary (TN) 1:00.72; 2. Rajwinder Kaur (PP) 1:02.33; 3. Bijimol Chacko (Ker) 1:03.23;
3000m Steeplechase: 1. B. Hemalatha (Kan) 11:05.67; 2. Vanitha Thakur (PP) 11:18.63; 3. Jaswinder Kaur (Pun) 11:46.87;
HJ (30): 1. Bobby Aloysius (Ker) 1.89; 2. Shana Kumari (Kan) 1.75; 3. M. Sangeetha (TN) 1.70;
PV (30): 1. Karamjit Kaur (PP) 3.50 (National Record); 2. Chetna Solanki (CRPF) 3.45; 3. V.S. Surekha (TN) 3.45;
LJ (28): 1. J.J. Shobha (AP) 6.23; 2. Jetty C. Joseph (Ker) 6.03; 3. Ruta Patkar (Jhar) 5.86;
TJ (30): 1. Manisha Dey (WB) 12.93; 2. Kalpana Das (WB) 12.43; 3. K.N. Priya (TN) 12.19;
SP (29): 1. Archana Mondal (WB) 11.61; 2. Narinder Kaur (PP) 11.35; 3. Manjit Kaur (PP) 11.12;
DT (28): 1. Neelam J. Singh (Har) 58.95; 2. Harwant Kaur (PP) 56.88; 3. Seema Antil (CRPF) 54.59;
HT (30): 1. Ritu Rani (Del) 56.20; 2. Rajwinder Kaur (PP) 54.59; 3. Hardeep kaur (PP) 46.04;
JT (30): 1. Gurpreet Kaur (Har) 46.46; 2. Sheeja Mathew (CRPF) 44.80; 3. N.M. Hemalatha (Kan) 43.72;
Heptathlon (30): 1. J.J. Shobha (AP) 5758; 2. R. Sneha Princy (TN) 4750; 3. E.S. Jyothi (Ker) 3847;
20,000m Walk (30): 1. Y. Bala Devi (WB) 1::43:06.03 (National Record); 2. Jasmin Kaur (PP) 1::46:19.54; 3. Amandeep Kaur (PP) 1::50:12.09;
4x100m (30): 1. Andhra Pradesh 46.44; 2. West Bengal 47.15; 3. Punjab Police 47.31;
4x400m (30): 1. Andhra Pradesh 3:49.01; 2. Punjab Police 3:50.67; 3. West Bengal 3:51.11;
Best athletes: Men: Kuldeep Kumar (UP); Women: Bobby Aloysius (Kerala)
Team champions: Men: Army; Women: Punjab Police; Overall champions: Punjab Police.
