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Ritu sets new 400m meet record

CHANDIGARH: Ritu Chikara of Haryana broke the one-minute mark for the one-lap race in the girls’ under-16 section to set a new meet record on the final day of the 19th North Zone junior athletics championship at the Panjab University ground here on Thursday.

National camper Ritu, who was entered at the eleventh hour after the maximum two entries from Haryana had already been confirmed, clocked 59.80 seconds to better the 12-year-old record held by Delhi’s Anuradha (1:00.40s) in Faridabad.

Chandigarh’s Lovneet Saini took the silver in 1:01.70s and Punjab’s Ekamjot Kaur (1:02.9s) settled for the bronze.

Haryana dominates

The dominance of Haryana athletes was evident in all aspects from winning medals to being caught for being overage or submitting disputable age certificates.

The meet, which was the qualifying championship for the all-India inter-zonal junior athletics championship in Guntur next month, saw over 50 athletes either being disqualified or their results withheld.

The maximum defaulters were from Haryana.

Still, Haryana athletes grabbed the maximum medals ahead of its nearest challenger, Uttar Pradesh.

Overall, Haryana won 36 gold, 24 silver and 23 bronze medals, while Uttar Pradesh finished second with 24 gold, 26 silver and 18 bronze medals.

Three meet records

On the concluding day, three more meet records were set. Haryana’s Parveen clocked 56.76s to win the 400m hurdles in boys’ under-18 category to better the previous record by 0.02s.

Prashant Kumar of Haryana held the record of 56.78s, set in Panipat in 2004.

The other two records were set in under-16 boys’ and girls’ medley relays respectively.

The results:

Boys: U-20: 400m: 1. Maninder Singh (Pun) 50.40s, 2. Azadbir Singh (Pun) 50.48, 3. Vishal Kumar Yadav (U.P.) 50.54.

10,000m: 1. Deep Chand Pal (U.P.) 33:00.7s, 2. Manoj (Chd) 33:01.4, 3. Naresh Malik (Har) 33:43.9. 400m hurdles: 1. Satish Kumar (Har) 55.92s, 2. Mukhtair Singh (Pun) 56.22, 3. Ashok Singh (U.P.) 56.58.

Triple jump: 1. Navjot Singh (Pun) 14.56m, 2. Mohit (U.P) 14.49, 3. Dinesh Sharma (Har) 13.81. Javelin: 1. Krishan Nand Tripathi (U.P.) 61.54m, 2. Rajwant Yadav (U.P.) 57.32, 3. Rajender (Har) 57.00. 4x100m relay: 1. Punjab (43.73s), 2. Haryana (44.06), 3. Delhi (44.72).

10,000m walk: 1. Amrit Kumar (Pun) 49:25.51s, 2. Hardeep Singh (Pun) 49:32.52, 3. Manjit Singh (Har) 50:32.27.

U-18: 400m: 1. Inderjit Singh (Pun) 49.57s, 2. Dharamvir Singh (Har) 49.66, 3. Pankaj Dimri (Utr) 50.16. 5000m: 1. Vinit Malik (Utr) 15:36.66s, 2. Radhey Shayam Chauhan (U.P.) 15:37.40, 3. Pramod Singh Patni (Utr) 15:39.49.

400m hurdles: 1. Parveen (Har) 56.76s — NMR (old 56.78), 2. Ramvir Singh (Har) 59.04, 3. Yogender Kumar (U.P.) 59.24. Triple jump: 1. Raj Kumar (Har) 14.02m, 2. Anil Singh (Utr) 13.68, 3. Prabjot Singh (Pun) 13.66. Shot put: 1. Jasdeep Singh (Pun) 18.20m, 2. Sanjeev Rathi (Del) 18.06, 3. Ajay Pal (Del) 17.55. 4x100m relay: 1. Haryana (43.89s), 2. Uttar Pradesh (44.30), 3. Chandigarh (45.27).

U-16: 400m: 1. Pardeep (Har) 51.35s, 2. Aman Handa (Har) 51.62, 3. Manoj Kumar (Del) 51.86. 2000m: 1. Nitesh (Har) 5:51.58s, 2. Surender Kumar Pal (U.P.) 5:51.61, 3. Vinit Sain (Utr) 5:54.97. Medley relay: 1. Delhi (2:03.85s) — NMR (old 2:04.50), 2. Haryana (2:04.36), 3. Uttarakhand (2:06.18). 5000m walk: 1. Neeraj Kumar Patel (U.P.) 25:27.31s, 2. Tajvir Singh (Pun) 25:32.33, 3. Balraj Singh (Pun) 25:37.21.

Girls: U-20: 400m: 1. Komal Tehlan (Del) 58.08s, 2. Ritu (Har) 59.87, 3. Rajneesh Bala (HP) 1:02.32. 3000m: 1. Savita Dhankar (Har) 10:26.66s, 2. Sunita Pal (U.P.) 10:46.89, 3. Manju Kumari (HP) 11:00.45. Shot put: 1. Neelam (Har) 13.16m, 2. Priyanka Bhanot (Del) 12.68, 3. Nitasha (J & K) 7.28.

Discus: 1. Priyanka Bhanot (Del) 45.88m, 2. Manisha (Har) 40.80, 3. Kiran Deep Sidhu (Pun) 35.90. Hammer: 1. Meenakshi (Har) 44.95m, 2. Manju (Har) 42.32, 3. Gunjan Singh (U.P.) 40.61.

U-18: 400m: 1. Anila (Har) 59.71s, 2. Ramandeep Kaur (Pun) 1:02.01, 3. Manisha (Har) 1:02.11. 3000m: 1. Rekha Patel (U.P.) 11:30.57s, 2. Reema Patel (U.P.) 11:31.68, 3. Anita (Har) 11:39.73.

400m hurdles: 1. Raksha Singh (U.P.) 1:11.09s, 2. Bharti (U.P.) 1:11.95, 3. Mandeep Kaur (Chd) 1:12.84.

4x100m relay: 1. Haryana (52.37s), 2. Punjab (52.47), 3. Delhi (54.78).

5000m walk: 1. Pooja (Har) 28:24.8s, 2. Amandeep Kaur (Pun) 29:09.6, 3. Rajbir Kaur (Pun) 30:27.9. U-16:

400m: 1. Ritu Chikara (Har) 59.80s — NMR (old 1:00.4), 2. Lovneet Saini (Chd) 1:01.7, 3. Ekamjot Kaur (Pun) 1:02.9.2000m: 1. Meena Jakhar (Har) 7:14.34s, 2. Pooja (Har) 7:21.14, 3. Jyoti (Del) 7:21.34. Medley relay: 1. Haryana (2:28.25), 2. Punjab (2:29.58), 3. Chandigarh (2:32.71). 3000m walk: 1. Sugandha (U.P.) 16:42.32s, 2. Komal (Har) 16:53.01, 3. Meenakshi (Har) 18:10.02. — Principal Correspondent

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