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Final day sees glut of records; Surender scores double

Principal Correspondent

KOLKATA: Records fell in a heap on the final day of the XIIIth Federation Cup athletics as two National records and four meets records were sunk here at the Salt Lake Stadium on Sunday.

The first record fell early in the day when Preeja Sreedharan of Kerala eclipsed her own National 10,000m run record — set barely five months ago in Doha Asian Games. Despite the race being scheduled early in the morning, Preeja had to brave a high percentage of humidity before clocking 33.19.71 that overhauled her own record of 33:48.35 seconds for the fourth time in a span of one year.

Preeja's effort highlighted the improvement that India's Belarusian coach for middle and long distance runners, Dr. Snesarev Nikolay, has been recommending. Kavita Raut (Maharashtra), who clocked 34:56.51, bettered the championship record of Sunita Rani (35:05.18 seconds) set in 2000, to win the silver. Pampa Chanda (Bengal) finished third with 36:03.25 seconds.

Similarly, in the men's section Surender Singh of Army added another meet record to his previous gold winning performance in the 5,000m, winning the 10,000m. He clocked 28:57.90 seconds — which was the third all-time best timing by an Indian — to overhaul Gulab Chand's nine-year-old record of 29:40.70.

Santosh Kumar Patel (29:19.37) of Jharkhand and Sadashivam Raghunath (29: 28.52) of Tamil Nadu also put up creditable efforts and bettered the meet recordRanjith Maheshwary of Kerala set a meet record in the triple jump while host's Hari Shankar Roy bettered his own meet record in high jump with a mark of 2.21m. C. Hamza of Army created the last record of the day winning the men's 1,500m run.

Preeja and Abraham became the best female and male athletes of the meet.

The results: Men: 200m: 1. P. Muthusamy (TN) 21.70s; 2. Ritesh Anand (Jhar) 21.74; 3. Ajay Kumar (Har) 21.96. 1500m: 1. C. Hamza (Army) 3:41.12s (NMR; Previous Record Kuldeep Kumar (UP) 3:44.18; Jun 2002); 2. Sajeesh Joseph (Ker) 3:43.13 (BMR); 3. Rajeev R. (Ker) 3:45.96. 10,000m: 1. Surender Singh (Army) 28:57.90 (NMR; PR Gulab Chand (UP) = 29: 40.70; July 1998); 2. Santosh Patel (Jhar) 29:19.37 (BMR); 3. S. Ragunath (TN) 29:28.52 (BMR). 4x400 m relay: 1. Army 3:13.77s; 2. Tamil Nadu 3:17.76; 3. CRPF 3: 21.98. 400m hurdles: 1. Joseph Abraham (CRPF) 50.04s (NMR; Pr. self 50.22s, Chennai; Nov. 2006); 2. P. Shankar (ONGC) 51.84; 3. Kuldev Singh (Pun Pol) 51.97; High jump: 1. Hari Shankar Roy (Ben) 2.21m (NMR; PR Benedict Starly (TN) 2.13; Mar 2006); 2. Abhishek Roy (Ben) 2.10; 3. Vinod Kumar (Guj) 2.05. Triple jump: 1. Ranjith Maheswary (Ker) 16.72m (NMR; Pr. Amarjeet Singh 16.58 (Pun); Mar. 2006); 2. Bibin Mathew (Ker) 16.48; 3. Amarjeet Singh (Pun) 16.19. Discus: 1. Harpreet Singh (ONGC) 52.11m; 2. Amaritpal Singh (Pun) 51.49; 3. Sunil Kumar (Army) 50.45. Decathlon: 1. P.J. Vinod (Ker) 7004 pts; 2. Ram Niwas (Har) 6691; 3. Bhupendra Singh (BSF) 6487.

Women: 200m: 1. Rajwinder Kaur (Pun Pol) 25.11s; 2. Susmita Singha Roy (Ben) 25.15; 3. H.M. Jyothi (AP) 25.27. 1,500m: 1. Sinimol Paulose (Jhar) 4:11.66s; 2. Susma (Del) 4:13.22; 3. Jhuma Khatun (Ben) 4: 22.60. 10,000m: 1. Preeja Sreedharan (Ker) (NR, NMR; Pr. self 33:48.35; Doha, Dec 2006); 2. Kavita Raut (Mah) 34:56.51 (BMR); 3. Pampa Chanda (Ben) 36:03.25. 4x400 m relay: 1. Kerala 3:45.47s; 2. Andhra Pradesh 3:48.91; 3. West Bengal 3:49.38. 400m hurdles: 1. Harani Chandrashekar (Kar) 1:00.31; 2. Harpreet Kaur (Pun) 1:00.55; 3. Sutapa Das (Ben) 1:01.86; Shot put: 1. Manpreet Kaur (Pun) 14.42m; 2. Saroj Sihag (CRPF) 14.28; 3. J.J. Sobha (AP) 12.28. Long jump: 1. Reshmi Bose (Ker) 6.05m; 2. G.G. Pramila (Jhar) 5.96; 3. Sinimol M.P (Ker) 5.90.