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Naunidh sets new record

Abhijit Sen Gupta

— Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

HEAVE HO: Railways' Nicolus Latha won the gold in shot-put event, even as her team dominated the show.

Hyderabad: Naunidh Singh of Punjab set a new national record in the men's 110m hurdles timing 14.05 seconds on the concluding day of the 45th National Open athletic championships at the GMC Balayogi stadium here on Thursday. Returning after a two year gap Naunidh broke the existing mark, which was set by Gurpreet Singh at 14.07s in 2001.

The 21-year-old Naunidh, an employee of BSF, said he was confident of winning since he had put in a lot of hard work and was expecting to come up with a good performance here.

In the women's javelin throw, Gurmeet Kaur of LIC broke her own meet record of 52.91 when she threw the spear to a distance of 53.77m. It was however below her national record of 58.64m.

Another new meet record was set in the men's triple jump where Ranjith Maheshwary of Railways registered 16.39m to break Sanjay Kumar Rai's mark of 16.23m.

Gamanda Ram of Services and Pinki Paramanik of Railways were adjudged Best Athletes in the men's and women's categories respectively.

Railways won the men's, women's and the overall team titles with comfortable margins over its nearest rivals in each category.

The results: Men: 20 Km walk: 1. Gurmeet Singh (Punjab) 1hr 30m 50.0s; 2. Sumantro Singh (Services) 1 hr 33 m 52.0s; 3. Vijay Gehlot (Rlys) 1 hr 35 min 9.0s. 110m hurdles: 1. Naunidh Singh (Pun) 14.05s (NR); 2. Krishna Mohan (Services) 14.18s; 3. Augustine P.E (Rlys) 14.48s. Triple jump: 1. Ranjith Maheshwary (Rlys) 16.39m (NMR); 2. Amarjeet Singh (Rlys) 15.78m; 3.Malkit Singh (Pun) 15.60m. 10,000m: 1. Jagannath Lakade (Services) 31m 23.65s; 2. Deep Chand (Services) 31m 24.40s; 3. S.Raghunath (Rlys) 31m 37.05s. 1500m: 1. Pritam Bind (Uttaranchal) 3m 48.46s; 2. C.Hamza (Services) 3m 48.75s; 3. Gamanda Ram (Services) 3m 51.47s. 4x400m relay: 1. Railways (3m 12.68s); 2. Services (3m 12.70s); 3. Andhra Pradesh (3m 13.65s). Pole vault (correction): 1. V.V. Geesh Kumar (Police) 5.05m; 2. Gajanan Upadhyaya (Rlys) 4.90m; 3. Praveen Kumar (Rlys) 4.70m.

Women: 100m hurdles: 1. Anuradha Biswal (Ori) 13.99s; 2. K.N.Priya (TN) 14.24s; 3. Amita Sethi (Ori) 14.31s. 10,000m: 1. L. Aruna Devi (Rlys) 36m 51.13s. 2. Pampa Chanda (Rlys) 37m 15.70s; 3. Madhuri Gurnule (LIC) 38m 12.55s. Javelin throw: 1. Gurmeet Kaur (LIC) 53.77m (NMR); 2. Megha Pardeshi (Rlys) 50.17s; 3. S.Saraswathi (Rlys) 48.92m. Shot put: 1. Nicolus Latha (Rlys) 14.31m; 2. Saroj Sihag (Har) 13.58m; 3. Archana Mondol (Rlys) 13.09s; 1500m: 1. Jaisha O.P. (Rlys) 4m 17.78s; 2. Sinimol Paulose (Steel Plants) 4m 21.15s; 3. Preeja Sreedharan (Rlys) 4m 36.90s. 4x400m relay: 1. Railways (3m 41.83s); 2. Tamil Nadu (3m 49.78s); 3. Punjab (3m 52.84s).

Team championships: Men: 1. Railways (176); 2. Services (162.50); 3. Police (58).

Women: Railways (278); 2. Punjab (23); 3. LIC (21).

Combined winners: Railways (454); 2. Services (162.50); 3. Police (69).

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