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Saturday, Aug 21, 2004

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Pallavi steals the show

BANGALORE, AUG 20 . Pallavi Sukumar of Frank Anthony Public School (FAPS) stole the thunder on the second day, when five new records were rewritten and one equalled in the KPMG-Bangalore City Inter school athletic championship at the Sree Kanteerava stadium here today.

Pallavi, the well built athlete who holds the under-14 triathlon national record leapt to a distance of 5.07 metres in the under-14 long jump event to erase Natasha Sagar's mark of 4.77 metres set in 2002.

The other record breakers are: Sheetal Kumar (shot put boys U-16), Keerthi K (long jump girls U-8) Richard Christopher (400m boys U-16) and the Baldwin girls' quartet in the 4x100m relay.

The results (Winners only):

Boys U-16: 400m: Richard Christopher (FAPS) 53.9s (NMR). Shotput: S. Sheetal Kumar (Sri Ramakrishna HS) 12.61m (NMR).

U-14: 400m: H. Prakash (Maria Niketan) 58.2s. High jump: Mohit Surana (St. Ann's HS) 1.51m.

U-12: 400m: J. Vijay (KK English) 1:07.4s. Shot put: Ameesh Karekar (Vidya Niketan, Hebbal) 8.0m.

U-8: Long jump: K. Anish (Gear Innovative Int) 3.39m.

Girls U-16: 400m: Haripriya Srinivas (Poorna Prajna) 59.8s (EMR). High jump: Sumy Tomy (Stella Maris) 1.33m. Long jump: Natasha Sagar (Baldwin girls) 5.66m. 4x100m relay: Baldwin girls 53.7 s (NMR).

U-14: 400m: Thoshna Dayalu (Baldwin girls) 1:0.4s. Long jump: Pallavi Sukumar (FAPS) 5.07m (NMR).

U-12: High jump: Shirley Akila (Holy Angel) 1.21m. 4x100m relay: Cluny Convent, HMT 1:00.4s.

U-8: Long jump: K. Keerthi (New FlorenceEnglish) 3.31m (NMR).

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