BANGALORE: Three National records were set on the second day of the 22nd junior National athletics championship at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Sunday.

In the 400m boys under-20 section Virendra Kumar Pankaj of Uttar Pradesh, with a splendid burst in the final stretch, won in 46.99 seconds besting his own previous mark of 47.16 seconds set in July this year.

Good run

Records came in the girls under-16 100 metres hurdles when Tamil Nadu's G. Gayathri clocked 14.70 seconds to better the previous mark of 14.88s set by Karnataka's Pallavi Sukumar in Chennai last year.

The third mark fell to Rajasthan's Manju Bala who heaved the hammer to a distance of 50.06 metres. Manju succeeded in obliterating Shilpa Chauhan's previous mark of 47.29 metres set last year at Meerut.

The results:

Boys':

Under-20: 400m: 1. Virendra Kumar Pankaj (UP) 46.99s (NNR, Old: own 47.16, July, 2006), 2. V.B. Bineesh (Ker) 47.62, 3. K.M. Mohammed Naseem (Ker) 47.71. Javelin: 1. Durgesh (Del) 61.60m, 2. A. Udithya Kumar (TN) 60.36, 3. Samarjeet Singh (Raj) 59.08.

U-18: 400m: 1. Jaspal Singh (Raj) 49.16s, 2. Wasim Akram (Jhar) 49.74, 3. Shejil Verghese (Ker) 49.84. 2000m steeplechase: 1.Avdesh Kumar Pal (Mah) 6:07.5s, 2. Dharmendra Yadav (Mah) 6:08.0, 3. Ram Pyare (UP) 6:09.4.

U-16: 400m: 1. Asish Mondal (WB) 49.93s, 2. Nikkin Thimmaiah (Kar) 50.45, 3. Nishith Shetty (Karn) 51.26. 2000m: 1. Samsher Singh (Har) 5:43.79s, 2. Dhiraj Soni (Jhar) 5:47.79, 3. K. Ramesh (AP) 5:51.23. 100m hurdles: Ramshankar Bharati (Mah) 14.10s, 2. Deepak Pandey (Mah) 14.26, 3. Ankit Sharma (MP) 14.35. Long jump: 1. Sabha Bhagay (Mah) 6.63m, 2. Ankit Sharma (MP) 6.61, 3. K. Hariputhran (TN) 6.53.

Girls':

U-20: 400m: 1. K. Mrudula (AP) 56.05s, 2. K. Soujanya (AP) 56.64, 3. Ratandip Kaur (Pun) 56.73. 100m hurdles: 1. Shreema Priyadarshini (Kar) 15.15s, 2. Jojimol Joseph (Ker) 15.36, 3. Sishira Hegde (Mah) 15.41. Shot put: 1. Aplesh (Har) 12.99m, 2. Neelam (Tri) 12.81, 3. Priyanka Bhanot (Del) 12.06.

U-18: 400m: 1. Tintu Luka (Ker) 55.45s, 2. M.R. Poovamma (Kar) 56.00, 3. Anu Mariam Jose (Ker) 56.16. 100m hurdles: 1. Sneha Patil (Kar) 14.78s, 2. K. Keerthana (TN) 14.90, 3. Natasha Sagar (Kar) 14.96. Hammer: 1. Manju Bala (Raj) 50.06m (NNR, Old: Shilpa Chauhan (UP) 2005), 2. Knika Kumari (Del) 45.35, 3. Swati Singh (UP) 43.31.

U-16: 400m: 1. Chinchu Jose (Ker) 57.32s, 2. C. Arya (Ker) 58.37, 3. Debashree Majumdar (WB) 58.67. 2000m: 1. Reema Patel (UP) 6:48.66s, 2. K.C. Shruthi (Kar) 6:50.31, 3. G. Sowmya (TN) 6:58.35. 100m hurdles: 1. G. Gayathri (TN) 14.70s (NNR; Old: Pallavi Sukumar (Kar) 14.88 in 2005), 2. J. Hemashree (TN) 14.92, 3. Sanitha Sabu (Ker) 15.35s. Long jump: 1. G.M. Aishwarya (Kar) 5.59m, 2. Labina Khatun (WB) 5.55, 3. Kaushaila (Tri) 5.48.

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