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Kerala emerges overall champion

By Our Sports Reporter

The Kerala athletes present a happy picture after taking the overall honours in the junior National athletic championships in Shimoga on Saturday.

SHIMOGA Jan. 11. Kerala, led by its girls, who claimed all three team titles (under-20, under-18, under-16), walked tall as it emerged the undisputed overall champion in the 18th junior National athletics championship, at the Nehru Stadium, with a whopping tally of 388 points here on Saturday.

Tamil Nadu, as in the last two years, finished second with 288 points while host Karnataka jumped up many a slot to finish third with 268 points.

The Uttar Pradesh boys, who impressed throughout the five days, garnered 185 points for the boys team championship, while the girls title was claimed by Kerala with 237 points, against Karnataka's 181 points.

The day also witnessed three records — Kerala's Manju Paulose and West Bengal's Sabina Khatun winning the girls under-20 heptathlon and girls under-16 pentathlon respectively and Gurkirat Singh providing the perfect finish to the championship by besting a four year old National record in the boys under-18 javelin throw event.

Gurkirat flung the spear to a new distance of 64.10 metres bettering Darshan Lal's mark of 63.34 metres set in New Delhi.

Manju, the strong built Kozhikode girl, employed with Southern Railway amassed 4878 points to better B.N. Sumavati's (Karnataka) aggregate of 4702 points set at Hyderabad in 1994.

Manju fared poorly in the javelin throw (24.39m) but had done enough in the others to clinch the gold ahead of West Bengal's Sushmitha Singha Roy (4402 pts) and Karnataka's Sachitha Monappa (4265 pts).

Sabina Khatun of West Bengal bettered Manju Paulose's mark of 2697 points tallying 3013 points in the under-16 pentathlon.

The results:

Boys under-20: 200m: 1. P. Shankar (AP) 21.79s, 2. Vilas Nilgund (Kar) 22.02s, 3. Shanoj T.B (Ker) 22.29s; 10000m: 1. Pritam Nind (U'chal) 32:09.6s, 2. Brij Lal (U.P.) 33:04.5s, 3. Manoj Kumar Varma (U.P.) 33:05.8s; 3000m steeplechase: 1. Vikas Singh (U.P.) 9:48.12s, 2. Sunny Sharma (A.P.) 10:07.50s, 3. Sunil Gaud (M.P.) 10:11.00s; High jump: 1. Tamil Selvan (TN) 1.91m, 2. Anil Kumar Chahal (U.P.) 1.90m, 3. A. Arunkumar (TN) 1.90m; Pole vault: 1. Mahavir Singh (Goa) 4.30m, 2. Vijay Kumar Yadav (U.P.) 4.00m, 3. Devendar Singh (Har) 4.00m; Hammer: 1. Ashish Kumar Singh (U.P.) 60.93m, 2. Sunil Kumar (Raj) 60.80m, 3. Gurinder Pal (Cha)59.90m; 4 x 400m relay: 1. A.P. 3:22.13s, 2. Kerala 3:22.48s, 3. Orissa 3:23.76s. Team: 1.Uttar Pradesh 82 pts, 2. Andhra Pradesh 59 pts, 3. Kerala 53 pts.

Boys under-18: 200m: 1. Mohammed Muddassir (Kar) 22.31s, 2. A. Arvind (TN) 22.43s, 3. Jagdev Singh (Pun) 22.88s; 2000m steeplechase: 1. Ravinder Singh (Pun) 6:30.99s, 2. Brijesh Kumar (U.P.) 6:33.57s, 3. S. Ajay Kumar (A.P.) 6:34.41s; Javelin: 1. Gurkirat Singh (Pun) 64.10m (NMR), 2. Arun Kumar (U.P.) 61.68m, 3. S. Balasubramaniam (TN) 60.44m; Heptathlon: 1. K. Shankar (TN) 6034 pts, 2. S. Krishna Raju (A.P.) 6019pts, 3. Basal Paul (Ker) 5345pts; 4 x 400m relay: 1. A.P. 3:22.19s, 2. Kerala 3:22.94s, 3. Jharkhand 3:26.23s. Team: 1. Andhra Pradesh 60 pts, 2. Tamil Nadu and Kerala 59 pts.

Boys under-16: 5 km walk: 1. K. Johnson Singh (Man) 22:50.7s, 2. Ajay Kumar (Har) 24:04.2s, 3. M. Dung Dung Meitei (Man) 24:08.7s; Pentathlon: 1. L. Selvaraj (TN) 4061pts, 2. Baburao Huika (Ori) 3746 pts, 3. Edwin Franklin (TN) 3590 pts; 4 x 100m relay: 1. TN 44.34s, 2. Kerala 44.64s, 3. U.P. 44.86s. Team: 1. Uttar Pradesh 49 pts, 2. Kerala 39 pts, 3. Tamil Nadu 38 pts.

Girls under-20: 200m: 1. Chitra K. Soman (Jhar) 25.32s, 2. Deepthi Jose (Ker) 25.83s, 3. Jyothi H.M (Kar) 25.99s; 3000m: 1. Kavitha Raut (Mah) 10:29.70s, 2. Kamlesh (Bih) 10:44.70s, 3. S. Jhabaton Devi (Mani) 10:57.38s; Triple jump: 1. Libiya V.S (Ker) 12.22m, 2. Tinci Philip (Ker) 11.99m, 3. Tucy Deshmukh (W.B.) 11.52m; Shot put: 1. Hardeep Kaur (Cha) 11.38m, 2. Sandra D'Souza (Kar) 11.26m, 3. Smritikana Manna (W.B.) 10.96m; Javelin throw: 1. Nisha Attar Singh (Har) 39.09m, 2. Sheena P.J. (Ker) 37.25m, 3. Sanjo (HP) 34.80m; Heptathlon: 1. Manju Paulose (Ker) 4878 pts (NMR), 2. Sushmitha Singha Roy (W.B.) 4402pts, 3. Sachita Monappa (Kar) 4265pts; 4 x 400m relay: 1. Karnataka 3:51.89s, 2. Kerala 3:53.81s, 3. Punjab 4:04.33s. Team: 1. Kerala 108 pts, 2. Karnataka 78 pts, 3. Maharashtra 50 pts.

Girls under-18: 200m: 1. Iyleen Samantha (A.P.) 25.32s, 2.Pinki Pramanik (W.B.) 25.59s, 3. Aruna Kumari (A.P.) 25.95s; 3000 m: 1. Jyothi Kolekar (Kar) 10:43.1s, 2. Rajashree Y Patil (Kar) 10:44.7s, 3. Sudha Singh (U.P.) 10:44.8s; Hammer: T.H. Chobbi Devi (Man) 39.00m, 2. Y.Premalata Devi (Mani) 38.72m; Maninder Kaur (Pun) 38.45m; Heptathlon: 1. Sharada Patil (Mah) 4015 pts, 2. Richa Pereira (Mah) 3885pts, 3. C. Dhayalini (TN) 3810pts; 4x400m relay: 1. Kerala 3:56.02s, 2. AP 3:57.84s, 3. Karnataka 4:03.75s. Team: 1. Kerala 74 pts, 2. TN 64 pts, 3. Karnataka 52 pts.

Girls under-16: Long jump: 1. P. Lakshmi (TN) 5.37m, 2. Shilpa Sunder (Kar) 5.28m, 3.Prachita Patankar (Mah) 5.26m; Discus: 1. Indu Bala (Har) 39.04m, 2. Neha Singh (U.P.) 36.30m, 3. A. Anitcham (TN) 34.25m; Pentathlon: 1. Sabina Khatun (W.B.) 3013 pts (NMR), 2. Jojimol Joseph (Ker) 2758 pts, 3. Safina Khatun (W.B.) 2611 pts; 4 x 100m relay: 1. Kerala 50.09s, 2. Karnataka 50.48s, 3. Orissa 51.18s. Team: 1. Kerala 55 pts, 2. Karnataka 52 pts, 3, TN 43 pts

Overall: 1. Kerala 388 pts, 2. TN 288 pts, 3. Karnataka 268 pts.

Final medals tally (read as State, gold, silver, bronze): Kerala 20-19-17; 13-12-25; Karnataka 11-15-11; Andhra Pradesh 11-8-9; Haryana 9-8-3; West Bengal 9-7-5; Punjab 8-7-7; Maharashtra 6-11-7; Orissa 6-3-1; Uttar Pradesh 5-16-11; 3-1-0; Jharkhand 3-1-3; Manipur 2-2-5; Uttaranchal 2-2-2; Rajasthan 1-1-1; Chandigarh 1-0-1; Goa 1-0-1; Assam 0-1-0; Madhya Pradesh 0-0-3; Chhatisgarh 0-0-1.

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