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Double for Sinimole, Hamza

S.R. Suryanarayan

Renjith rewrites meet record

PROVING A POINT: Sinimol Paulose (No. 241) of Kerala completed a double. — Photo: R. Ragu

CHENNAI: Sinimole Paulose and Chatholi Hamza had a point to prove. Both did that in style, completing a double by winning the 800m, having won the 1,500m earlier on the final day of the Chennai Port Trust-National inter-State athletics championship at the floodlit Nehru Stadium on Sunday.

Surendra Singh of Uttaranchal too completed a double, adding the 5000m title (with a new meet record to boot, beating Bahadur Prasad's 11-year record) to his 10,000m success earlier.

Renjith Maheswary, the 20-year-old from Kerala, rewrote the triple jump meet record with his personal best of 16.50 m. Incidentally that is the mark the AFI had set for him to book his berth for the Doha Games and this Western Railway employee beat the existing record holder Amarjeet Singh's 16.44m to achieve that. Amarjeet himself could reach only 16.16m.

National record

The day also saw a National and meet records in the 20km walk for women where L. Deepamala Devi of Manipur bettered her own mark by around half a minute. That also set aside Bala Devi's meet mark in the process.

If the urge to excel drove Renjith in the pit, then sheer determination reflected in the efforts of both the Keralites Hamza and Sinimole, who though is representing Jharkand since she is attached to the Tata Academy. Attached to the MEG Wellington, Hamza had tasted success in the South Asian Games in Colombo recently. Coached by Nicolai from Belarus, Hamza powered his way to victory in the home stretch, clocking 1:49.11s, his best till date.

Sinimole's was even grander. Taking an early lead, Sinimole appeared for a grand finish when Piniki Paramanik out strode her nearing the home stretch but only briefly. In a flash, Sinimole seized the lead and there was no stopping her clocking her personal best time. At the end of the four-day meet, Kerala won the overall championship after a five-year gap, with 191 points. Tamil Nadu was placed next with 143.25 points.

The results:

Men: 20 km walk: 1. P.S. Jalan (Ker) 1:33:34.90; 2. Sumendru Singh (MP) 1:38:31.10; 3. Anil (Har)1:39:58.80; 110m hurdles: 1. Gurpreet Singh (Pun) 14.66s; 2. Rohit Hawal (Karna) 14.84s; 3. A. Karuppasamy (TN) 14.92s; 200m: 1. S. Arunjith (Ker) 21.54 s; 2. Deepak Basarkar (Mah) 21.92s; 3. Ritesh Anand (Jhark) 21.98s; 800m: 1. C. Hamza (Ker) 1:49.11s; 2. Jaskiran (Har) 1:59.48s; 3. Sajeesh Joseph (Ker) 1:50.55s; 5000m: 1. Surendra Singh (Uttran) 13:59.46 (NMR, prev 14:00.00, Bahadur Prasad, 1995); 2. Kashinath Aswale (Mah) 14:05.71s; 3. Santosh Kumar Patel (UP) 14:10.23s; discus: 1. Vipendra Singh (UP) 52.38m; 2. Amarjit singh (Pun) 46.64m; 3. Derekhutson (TN) 40.85m; triple jump: 1 Renjith Maheswary (Ker) 16.50m (NMR, prev 16.44m Amarjeet Singh, 2004); 2. Amarjeet Singh (Pun) 16.16m; 3. E. Alex (Ker) 15.93m; high jump: 1. Hari Shankar Roy (WB) 2.16m; 2. Benedict Starly (TN) 2.10m; 3. Prince Jose (Ker) 2.05m; 4 x 100m: 1. AFI campers (A. Aravind, Vilas Nilagund Amit Saha, Vishal Saxena) 39.79s; 2. Kerala (S. Arunjith, Roshan Issac John, Freji Jose, Jiby Peter) 41.03s; 3. Delhi 41.28s; 4. Jharkand 41.82s; 4x400m relay: 1. Kerala (Abraham Joseph, Aboo Backer, P.S. Sreejith, Nazeem K.M. Muhammed) 3:09.29s; 2. Punjab 3:16.20s; 3. Haryana 3:17.71s

Women: 20-km walk: 1. L. Deepamala Devi (Mani) 1:39:00.6 (NR, prev 1:39:30.59, Deepamala Devi, 2006, NMR, prev 1:44:37.40, Y. Bala Devi, 2005); 2. Supriya Adhak (Mah) 1:56:49.8; 3. Sandeep Kaur (Pun) 2:03:58.1; 100m hurdles: 1. Anuradha Biswal (Ors) 14.09s; 2. Poonam Bojanna (Karna) 14.23 s; 3. S. Sankari (TN) 14.67s; 200m: 1. Chitra K. Soman (Jhark) 23.94s; 2. Manjit Kaur (Pun) 24.00s; 3. Rakhi Saha (WB) 24.73s; 800m: 1. Sinimole Paulose (Jhark) 2:02.02s; 2. Pinki Paramanik (WB) 2:02.49s; 3. Sushma (Del) 2:06.91s; 5000m: 1. O.P. Jaisha (Ker) 16:02.10s; 2. Preeja Sreedharan (Ker) 16:23.12s; 3. Preethi L. Rao (Karna) 17:17.88s; shot put: 1. Saroj Sihag (Har) 15.28m; 2. S. Sarasavathi (TN) 13.19m; 3. A. Anitcham (TN) 11.89m; triple jump: 1. Manisha Dey (WB) 13.04m; 2. Anisha K. Vinayan (Ker) 12.99m; 3. M.A. Prajuisha (Ker) 12.43m; heptathlon: 1. Soma Biswas (WB) 5799 pts; 2. Susmita Singha Roy (WB) 5761; 3. J.J. Shobha (AP) 5734 ; 4x400 relay: 1. AP (Geetha Satti, G. Harithi, A.K. Soujanya, K. Mrudula) 3:41.51s; 2. Kerala 3:41.61; 3. Tamil Nadu 3:47.44.