The Hindu : Jhuma erases eight-year-old 800m mark

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Jhuma erases eight-year-old 800m mark

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West Bengal's Jhuma Katun (745) on her way to setting a new National record in the girls' under-16 800m event in the National inter-zonal junior athletic championship in Bhopal on Saturday. R. Mahalakshmi (782, silver) and K.P. Sowmiya (783, bronze) both from Karnataka are also seen. Right: Tamil Nadu's V.S. Sureka sets a new National record in the junior women's under-20 pole vault event.

BHOPAL SEPT. 13. Bengal's middle-distance runner Jhuma Khatun erased the oldest standing National record in the girls under-16 category when she waltzed the 800 metre flat race in 2 minutes 17.62 seconds, on the opening day of the 15th National inter-zonal junior athletic championship here on Saturday.

Jhuma eased out in the front 300 metres from the finish line and completed the race way ahead of the Karnataka duo, R. Mahalakshmi (2:19.03) and K.P. Sowmiya (2:19.51).

With this effort, Jhuma, the 10th standard student of Lakhuriya High School, Kolkata, bettered the old record by 1.38 seconds. The old record was set by Anuradha in New Delhi in November 1995.

The results: junior men (under-20): 100m: 1. Vishal Saxena (UP) 10.87s; 2. Arun Goel (Del) 10.91; 3. Bhimsen Mardi (Jhar) 11.26. 1,500m: 1. Jai Prakash (Utr) 4:07.9; 2. Gopal Singh (Utr) 4:08.3; 3. Shibu Tuddu (Mah) 4:08.7. 400m hurdles: 1. Akhilesh Singh (UP) 54.45s; 2. M. Mohan Ram (TN) 54.73; 3. Kawaljit Singh (Pun) 55.35. High jump: 1. Rajesh Kumar (Har) 2.00m; 2. Anil Kumar (UP) 1.97; 3. Tamil Selvan (TN) 1.90. Pole vault: 1. Naseemuddin (UP) 4.20m; 2. Faujdar (Del) 4.05; 3. P. Sivashumugam (TN) 3.90. Shot put: 1. Sandeep Kumar (Har) 15.99m; 2. Satyawan Shinde (Mah) 14.58; 3. Vikrant Jha (Jhar) 13.98. 10,000m walk: 1. Mahendra Gupta (Mah) 46:50.6; 2. Neeraj Gaud (Mah) 47:12.6; 3. Bhupinder Singh (Har) 47:49.1.

Boys (under-18): 100m: 1. Rahamatullah Molana (Ben) 10.98s; 2. Dushyant Kumar (UP) 11.09; 3. Vinay Chaudhary (UP) 11.10. 800m: 1. Sunaram Tiria (Ori) 1:57.77; 2. Ajay Kumar Yadav (Utr) 1:58.06; 3. K. Siva Nagaraju (AP) 1:58.43. 1,500m: 1. Sanjeev Kumar (Jhar) 4:03.7; 2. Civil Sarjan Singh (Utr) 4:05.7; 3. Sunaram Tiria (Ori) 4:08.1. 400m hurdles: 1. K. Shiva Nagaraju (AP) 54.60s; 2. Tejas Karkhanis (Mah) 57.28; 3. Vinay Kumar Singh (UP) 57.62. High jump: 1. Rajesh (Har) 2.04m NR (old 2.03); 2. S. Karthik (TN) 1.92; 3. Kamaljeet Singh (Jhar) 1.90. Pole vault: 1. Virendra Singh (AAFI) 4.00m; 2. Digvijay Singh (Har) 4.00; 3. Anil Kumar Yadav (UP) 3.50. Shot put: 1. Saurabh Vij (Del) 16.21m; 2. Sandeep (Har) 14.36; 3. K. Sathiswaran (TN) 13.99. 10,000m walk: 1. Raj Kumar (Del) 49:49.3; 2. Neeraj Sharma (Utr) 50:49.1; 3. Hinga Ram (Cht) 52:57.2.

Boys (under-16): 100m: Budhuram Singh (Ori) 11.41s; 2. Harveer Malik (UP) 11.44; 3. Deepak Chaudhary (Del) 11.62. 800m: 1. Lakhan Mardi (Jhar) 2:00.50; 2. Chandrasha Madavi (Mah) 2:00.67; 3. Dandu Soren (Ori) 2:01.13. 2,000m: 1. Mukesh Kumar Patel (UP) 5:51.8; 2. Amjad Mullick (Jhar) 5:52.0; 3. Mandhata Nishad (Mah) 5:52.7. High jump: 1. Laxman Chavda (Mah) 1.88m; 2. Dipankar Mondal (Ben) 1.85; 3. Bhanu Pratap (Utr) 1.75. Shot put: 1. Ajay Kumar (UP) 15.03m; 2. Inderjit Singh (MP) 14.85; 3. Ashwani (Del) 14.23. 5,000m walk: 1. M. Dung Dung Meetal (Man) 25:21.68; 2. Hardeep Singh (Pun) 25:24.66; 3. Th. Nanda Kumar (Man) 25:46.50.

Junior women (under-20): 100m: 1. Shilpi Dhali (Ben) 12.05s; 2. K. Aruna Kumari (AP) 12.27; 3. Ranjita Roy (Ben) 12.41. 1,500m: 1. Abharani (Mah) 4:45.56; 2. Kavita Raut (Mah) 4:50.75; 3. Sushama (Del) 4:53.68. 400m hurdles: 1. Mini Suvarna (Mah) 1:05.17; 2. Pooja Jhakar (Del) 1:06.50; 3. H. Amudha (TN) 1:07.06. High jump: 1. A. Amutha (TN) 1.68m; 2. Mallika Mondal (Ben) 1.65; 3. Sumitra Nayak (Ori) 1.57. Pole vault: 1. V.S. Surekha (TN) 3.40m NR (old 2.85); 2. Suman (Har) 2.80. Shot put: 1. Shakshi Sharma (Chd) 12.15m; 2. Ketaki Bakare (Mah) 12.04; 3. S. Saraswathi (TN) 10.86. 4x400m relay: 1. South Zone 4:01.31; 2. East Zone 4:05.43; 3. West Zone 4:08.23. 10,000m walk: 1. M. Manjula (TN) 57:01.88; 2. Seema Meshram (MP) 59:15.75; 3. C. Sharda Devi (Man) 1:02:22.02.

Girls (under-18): 100m: 1. R. Rama Devi (AP) 12.44s; 2. Pankaja Kumari (Jhar) 12.81; 3. Rekha Haldar (Ben) 12.89. 800m: 1. N. C. Mohanlal (TN) 2:23.11; 2. Monika Biswas (Ben) 2:24.41; 3. Priyanka S. Patel (UP) 2:26.51. 1,500m: 1. Sudha Singh (UP) 4:53.10; 2. R. Ashwini (Kar) 4:54.7; 3. V. Johnshi Rani (TN) 4:56.20. 400m hurdles: 1. Anita Yadav (UP) 1:07.15; 2. Mieshel Pereira (Mah) 1:08.67; 3. Santi Barman (Ben) 1:09.06. High jump: 1. D. Karpuramala (TN) 1.50m; 2. Poonam Vidwans (Mah) 1.45; 3. Akanksha Nirale (Mah) 1.45. Shot put: 1. Neha Singh (UP) 10.58m; 2. Supriya Jagdale (Mah) 10.38; 3. Indu Bala (Har) 10.00. 5,000m walk: 1. Rajwinderjit Kaur (Pun) 30:36.41; 2. Subhasmita Ratha (Ori) 30:59.15; 3. Sukhdeep Kaur (Pun) 31:50.66.

Girls (under-16): 100m: 1. R. Srija Mole (TN) 12.92s; 2. Argina Khatun (Ben) 13.17; 3. Swati Parmanik (Ben) 13.34. 800m: 1. Jhuma Khatun (Ben) 2:17.62 NR (old 2:18.9); 2. R. Mahalakshmi (Kar) 2:19.03; 3. K. P. Sowmiya (Kar) 2:19.51. 2,000m: 1. Jhuma Khatun (Ben) 6:43.75 NMR (old 6:43.78); 2. B. E. Indra (Kar) 6:45.71; 3. Pushpa Rani (TN) 6:48.52. High jump: 1. D. Divya Priya (TN) 1.60m; 2. Antra Khatun (Ben) 1.60; 3. Teja Karkhanis (Mah) 1.55. Discus: 1. A. Anicham (TN) 36.48m; 2. Rinku (Har) 35.15; 3. Priyanka Bhanot (Del) 33.64. 3000m walk: 1. Manju (Har) 16:44.68; 2. S. Varalaksmi (AP) 17:08.61; 3. Th. Thoitoi Chanu (Man) 18:42.50.

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