Services team - Indian Champs men's team winners (© Krishnan)
Mumbai, IndiaVazhipali Suresh Surekha improved upon her own national mark by vaulting a new height of 3.55m during the Standard Chartered Open National Athletic Championship at Priyadarshini Park Ground here on Sunday afternoon (12 Sep).
The venue of this year’s national championship - Priyadarshini Park - situated on the beaches of the Arabian Sea at Mumbai is rightly acclaimed as the most picturesque venue for athletic events in India.
Notwithstanding the gale from the sea which affected the athletes’ chances of performing well, a number of participants did their personal bests here in this three day meet. As a blessing when the women’s Pole Vault event was conducted, there was not much wind to affect the athletes and thus paved way for Surekha to set the new mark.
As usual women athletes showed lot of grit and courage by bettering a meet mark and equalled another.
Karnataka’s B.L. Bharathi improved the meet record in steeplechase clocking 11:07.13. Bharathi’s feat was a highly commendable one as she had won the grueling 6km national cross-country race at Gulbarga a day earlier on Friday. She travelled overnight to reach Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday and took the steeplechase title the same day.
Sahana Kumari, also hails from Karnataka State but represented the Indian Railways’ team here, sailed over 1.81m to equal Bobby Aloysius’ meet mark.
The men’s 100m winner Piyush Kumar and women's pole vaulter V.S. Surekha were adjudged as the "Best Athletes" of the meet.
Aided by their women athletes the Indian Railways team took the overall title while the Services team annexed the men’s team championship.
Union Minister for Sports and former Hindi film star Mr. Sunil Dutt gave away the prizes to the winners in the presence of Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, President of Athletic Federation of India and IAAF Council Member, in the meet which was excellently hosted by the Bombay City District Athletic Association under the stewardship of former national sprint champ Mr. Adille Sumariwala and others.
Ram. Murali Krishnan for the IAAF
RESULTS:
Men:
100m: 1. Piyush Kumar (Rly) 10.55; 2. Sandeep Sarkaria (Del) 10.61; 3. B.G. Nagaraj (Kar) 10.74;
200m: 1. Anil Kumar Prakash (Ser) 21.23; 2. Piyush Kumar (Rly) 21.52; 3. B.G. Nagaraj (Kar) 21.62;
400m: 1. Sarish Paul (Ser) 47.82; 2. P. Shankar (AP) 48.30; 3. P.S. Sreejith (Ker) 48.44;
800m: 1. Josemon Mathew (Ser) 1:50.74; 2. P.S. Primesh (LIC) 1:51.41; 3. S.J. Sohesh (Ser) 1:51.65;
1,500m: 1. C. Hamza (Ser) 3:57.56; 2. Sunilkumar Singh (Har) 3:58.23; 3. Mahendra Prasad (Ser) 3:58.63;
5,000m: 1.Jagannath Lakade (Ser) 14:44.39; .2. D. Mohan Singh (Ser) 14:45.68; 3. S. Raghunath (TN) 14: 48.88;
10,000m: 1. Jagannath Lakade (Ser) 30:45.83; 2. D. Mohan Singh (Ser) 30:47.71; 3. Mukesh Kumar Yadav (UP) 31:04.40;
3,000m Steeplechase: 1. Arun D'Souza (Rly) 9:10.57; 2. Ranjeeth Kumar (Ser) 9:15.18; 3. C.D. Basuraj (Mah) 9:28.14;
110m Hurdles: 1. Krishna Mohan (Ser) 14.83; 2. P.V. Augustin (Rly) 14.94; 3. R. Mathew (Ser) 15.06;
400m Hurdles: 1. P. Shankar (AP) 51.62; 2. Ranjodh Singh (Pun) 52.64; 3. Kiran Prasad (Ker) 52.69;
High Jump: 1. Benedict Starly (Rly) 2.10; 2. M. Lorens (Ser) 2.09; 3. K.R. Roshan (LIC) 2.09;
Pole Vault: 1. Gajanan Upadhyay (Rly) 4.70; 2. P.P. Jayakumar (Ser) 4.50; 3. Jagbir Singh (Rly) and Ranjith Kumar (TN) 4.40;
Long Jump: 1. Maha Singh (Rly) 7.50; 2. Rajesh Babu (Police) 7.38; 3. Ashok Kumar (TN) 7.33;
Triple Jump: 1. Amarjit Singh (Pol) 15.97; 2. Sushant Bangera (Mah) 15.59; 3. K.I. Naveen (Ker) 15.58;
Shot Put: 1. Ranvijay Singh (UP) 18.69; 2. Jaivir Singh (Ser) 18.43; 3. Shakti Singh (Rly) 18.06;
Discus Throw: 1. Sukhveer Singh (Pun) 55.14; 2. Gursewak Singh (Pun) 54.53; 3. Amritpal Singh (Pun) 54.04;
Hammer Throw: 1. Harpal Singh (Pol) 60.33; 2. Rakesh Kumar (Pol) 59.59; 3. Madhu Kumar (Rly) 59.57; Javelin Throw: 1. Gajendra Kumar (Rly) 74.75; 2. Anik Kumar (Del) 74.70; 3. Om Narain (Rly) 71.82;
Decathlon: 1. Kulwinder Singh (Ser) 7081; 2. P.J. Vinod (Steel Plants) 7038; 3. Victor Jebasingh (Rly) 6506;
20 Km Walk: 1. Vijaykumar Gehlot (Rly) 1::33:00.7; 2. Sitaram Mangilal (Ser) 1::33:13.6; 3. Sree Ram (Rly) 1::35:36.9;
4x100m: 1. Railways 40.63; 2. Services 41.51; 3. Police 42.20;
4x400m: 1. Services 3:13.97; 2. Railways 3:17.04; 3. Delhi 3:17.89.
Women:
100m: 1. Poonam Tomar (Rly) 11.66; 2. Rajwinder Kaur (Pol) 12.08; 3. G.D. Gowramma (Kar) 12.30;
200m: 1. Manjit Kaur (Pol) 24.47; 2. Iyleen Samantha (AP) 25.11; 3. Rakhi Saha (Rly) 25.48;
400m: Satti Geetha (Rly) 53.81; 2. Rupinder Kaur (Rly) 56.14; 3. Bindu Rani (Kar) 56.94;
800m: 1.Sunita Kumari (Rly) 2:12.46; 2. Tejinder Kaur (Pun) 2:13.05; 3. Pinki Pramanik (Rly) 2:13.64;
1,500m: 1. Sunita Kumari (Rly) 4:35.14; 2. Sinimol Paulose (Steel Plants) 4:35.28; 3. S. Shanthi (TN) 4:35.65;
5,000m: 1. Preeja Sridharan (Rly) 17:43.72; 2. Madhuri Gurnule (LIC) 17:56.88; 3. Rupinder Kaur (Pun) 18:12.24;
10,000m: 1. L. Aruna Devi (Rly) 37:30.42; 2. Pushpa Devi (Rly) 37:57.43; 3. Vaishali Chaitre (Mah) 39:21.72; 3,000m Steeplechase: 1. B.L.Bharathi (Kar) 11:07.13 (NMR); 2. Vinita Thakur (Pun) 11:18.98; 3. S. Shanthi (TN) 11:19.67;
100m Hurdles: 1. Soma Biswas (Rly) 14.24; 2. Amita Sethi (Ori) 14.44; 3. G.G. Pramila (Rly) 14.79;
400m Hurdles: 1. Babita Choudhary (Rly) 58.05; 2. Pinki Pramanik (Rly) 59.95; 3. Roselin Arokia Mary (Rly) 1:00.75;
High Jump: 1. Sahana Kumari (Rly) 1.81 (EMR); 2. Sarita Patil (Mah) 1.74; 3. Tessymol Joseph (Rly) 1.68;
Pole Vault: 1. V.S. Surekha (Rly) 3.55 (National Record); 2. Shail Tiwari (Rly) 3.30; 3. Deepa Choudhary (Del) and Tapasi Nandi (Rly) 3.00.
Long Jump: 1. G.G. Pramila (Rly) 6.12; 2. Ruta Patkar (Rly) 5.98; 3. Ponny George (Ker) 5.69;
Triple Jump: 1. Tincy Philip (Ker) 12.68; 2. Tessymol Joseph (Rly) 12.58; 3. Lekha Roy (LIC) 12.56;
Shot Put: 1. N. Latha (Rly) 15.10; 2. Saroj Sihag (Pol) 1.47; 3.Chaitali Paul (Rly) 14.02;
Discus Throw: 1. Neelam Singh (Rly) 57.21; 2. Krishna Punia (Rly) 56.24; 3. Manmeet Bains (Rly) 46.46;
Hammer Throw: 1. Archana Bara (Pol) 49.29; 2. Rakhee Gaud (Rly) 47.37; 3. Ushma Singh (Del) 47.12;
Javelin Throw: 1. Megha Pardeshi (Rly) 51.70; 2. Manisha Mondol (Rly) 48.89; 3. Suman Devi (Rly) 48.70;
Heptathlon: 1. Sushmita Singh Roy (Rly) 4731; 2. Rose Mary Anthony (Ker) 4358 (only two completed the event).
20 Km Walk: 1. Y. Bala Devi (Rly) 1::51:14.9; 2. L. Deepmala Devi (Rly) 1::54:32.9; 3. V. Saraswathi (AP) 1::57:36.7;
Women’s 4x400m relay event cancelled due to lack of entries.
Team championships:
Overall: 1. Indian Railways (338 pts); 2. Services (150 pts).
Men: 1. Services; 2. Indian Railways; Women: 1. Indian Railways; 2. All India Police.
