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Eight new marks on opening day

By Our Special Correspondent

KOLLAM DEC. 20. Kerala's C.T. Raji and Bincy Devasia were among the eight who created a new meet record on the opening day of the 19th National junior athletics meet at the Lal Bahadur Stadium here on Saturday.

Kerala, at the end of a hectic day, had a collection of seven out of the 24 golds that were up for grabs.

The others who returned with new highs were Uttar Pradesh's Devender Kumar (under-20, pole vault) and Arun Kumar Patel (under-18, javelin throw), Bengal's Harisankar Roy (under-18, high jump), all in the boys' section and Tamil Nadu's A. Anitcham (under-18, shot put), Haryana's Alpesh (under-18, shot put) and Punjab's Manpreet Kaur (under-16, 2000m), all in the girls' division.

Earlier, the Kerala Sports Minister, Mr. K. Sudhakaran, inaugurated the four-day meet.

The results (all finals):

Boys under-20: 100m: 1.Mohammed Mudassir (Kar) 10.72s, 2.K.R. Sumesh (Ker), 3. Surinder (Har); 1500m: 1. Pritam Bind (Utl) 3:59.46, 2.Jaiprakash Patel (Utl), 3. Bibin Baby (Ker); Long jump: 1.M.S. Henan (Ker) 6.93m, 2. Ramesh Kumar (Har), 3. B. Arivazhagan (TN); Pole vault: 1. Devender Kumar (U.P.) 4.60m (NMR, OR: 4.45m, Jagbir Singh (Punjab), 2001), 2. K.P. Bimin (Ker), 3. Vijai Varghese (Ker);

Boys under-18: 100m: 1.Vinay Chaudhary (U.P.) 11.02s, 2. Rahamatulla Mollah (Ben), 3. Freji Jose (Ker); 1500m: 1. P. Trinath (AP) 4:03.67, 2. Nirvair Singh (Pun), 3. Mochi Ram Tudu (Ori); High jump: 1. Harisankar Roy (Ben) 2.02m (NMR, OR: 1.96m, Juby Thomas (Ker), 1996), 2. Rajesh Kalirawa (Har), 3. Suresh Kumar (U.P.); Javelin: 1. Arun Kumar Patel (U.P.) 65.51m (NMR, OR: 64.10m, Gurkirat Singh (Punjab), 2003), 2. Anuj Kumar (U.P.), 3. Harminder (Del).

Boys under-16: 100m: 1. Bhupender (Har) 11.41s, 2. P.K. Anoop (Ker), 3. S. Sainu Raj (Ker) 11.59s; 2000m: 1.Vijay (Har) 5:43.78, 2. Rakesh (Har), 3. Lok Nath (Utl) 5:49.58; Shot put: 1. Samarjeet Singh (Raj), 14.17m, 2. Inderjeet Singh (MP), 3. Ajay Kumar (U.P.); Discus: 1. Gagandeep (Har), 47.31m, 2. Dinesh (Har), 3. Sarad Chaudhary (U.P.).

Girls under-20: 100m: 1.Dhanya Purushothaman (Ker), 12.21s, 2.N. Lalitha (AP), 3. V.D. Shijila (Ker); 1500m: 1. Lakhvir Kaur (Chd) 4:41.83, 2. Kavita Raut (Mah), 3. V. Lavanya (AP); Javelin: 1. S. Saraswathi (TN) 42.85m, 2. Whida (Del), 3. Kusum Kanwar (Bih).

Girls under-18: 100m: 1.E.S. Jyothi (Ker) 12.47s, 2. Vinita Sahani (U.P.), 3. Mandeep Kaur (Pun); 1500m: 1. B. Uma Maheswari (AP) 4:44.91, 2. Jyothi Kolekar (Kar), 3. Iqbal Kaur (Chd); High jump: 1. Lindamol M. Rajan (Ker) 1.61m, 2. Tintu Varghese (Ker), 3. D. Karpuramala (TN); Shot put: 1. Aplesh (Har) 11.85m (NMR, OR: 11.34m, Pooja Merita Jose (TN), 2002), 2. Neha Singh (U.P.), 3. Neelam (Har); Javelin: 1. Bincy Devasia (Ker) 39.11m (NMR, OR: 38.98m, Geeta Samantry (Orissa), 1996), 2. Aplesh (Har), 3. Ranjeet Xess (Ori);

Girls under-16: 100m: 1. C.T. Raji (Ker) 12.57s (NMR, OR: 12.60s, Mansi Ketkar (Mah), 1996), 2. Komal Tehlan (Del), 3. G. Uhma Devi (AP); 2000m: 1. Manpreet Kaur (Pun), 6:28.60 (NMR, OR: 6:42.00, Manpreet Kaur (Pun), 2003), 2. S.R.Bindu (Ker), 3. Jhuma Khatun (Ben); Long jump: 1.P.K. Priya (Ker) 5.27m, 2. P. Radhika (TN), 3. Safima Khatun (Ben); Shot put: 1. A. Anitcham (TN) 12.46m (NMR, OR: 11.05m, Pooja Merita Jose (TN), 2001), 2. Steffi Cardoze (Goa), 3. S.G. Greeshma (Ker).

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