Sanjay Kumar of Haryana in the boys’ 10000 metres walk and Aakriti of Punjab in the girls’ 5000 metre walk clinched gold in the National youth athletics championships at the Gachibowli stadium on Saturday.
On Friday morning Seema, Himachal Pradesh’s distance runner from Dharamsala, erased Kerala girl Anumol Thampi’s meet and national mark of 10:00.22 with a noteworthy 9 minutes 56.25 seconds.
In the evening, Gurindervir Singh took down the national record in the boys’ 100m final clocking 10.74 seconds.
The Punjab sprinter’s effort bettered Praveen Muthukumaran’s six-year-old mark by 1/100th of a second. Gurindervir equalled the record of Huang Yonglian, winner in the Chinese youth nationals that ended in Nanchang on Thursday. That could be a pointer to Gurindervir’s medal ambitions for the forthcoming Asian Youth Championships at Bangkok, Thailand, next month.
The results: U-18: Boys: 10000m walk: 1. Sanjay Kumar 44:41.31 (Har), 2. Suraj Panvar 45:35.47 (Utk), 3. Akash Deep Singh 45:35.68 (Pun); Shot put: 1. Mohith 19.01m (Har), 2. Kartikeya 18.79 (Del), 3. Abhishek Singh 18.65 (UP); 100m: 1. Gurindervir Singh 10.74s (NR, Pun) 2. Ch. Palender Kumar 10.80 (Del), 3. Saurabh Singh 11.08 (UP); 110m hurdles: 1. Abhishek Ubhe 14.14 (Mah), 2. Punga Soren 14.15 (Odi), 3. G. Nishanth 14.61 (TN).
Girls:5000 m walk: 1. Aakriti 25:35.57 (Pun), 2. Baljeet Kuar 26:08.48 (Pun), 3. Divya 26:37.09 (Ker); Long jump : 1. R. Punitha 5.75m (TN), 2. R. Kusuma 5.53 (TN), 3. Manisha Merel 5.43 (Odi); Javelin: 1. Hemamalini 44.03m (TN), 2. Anjani Kumari 39.19 (Bih), 3. Gayatri Panwar 38.28m (Pun); 100m: 1. Rajashree Prasad 12.33s (WB), 2. A.T. Daneshwari 12.42 (Kar), 3. Hima Das 12.65 (Asm); 100m hurdles: 1. Aparna Roy 14.30s (Ker), 2. P. Manasi 14.34 (Mah) 3. Prathibha Kumar 15.22 (Jha).
