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National Youth athletics: Kerala, Tamil Nadu corner team honours

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Kerala has an overall tally of eight golds; TN wins five; Ajay Singh, Poovamma win individual titles

WINNING RUN: M.R. Poovamma, who won the best athlete (girls) award, on her way to winning the 200m sprint. — Photo: K. Murali Kumar

BANGALORE: Delhi's Ajay Singh for his 17.47m effort in shot put and Karnataka girl M.R. Poovamma (54.7 seconds in the 400) were adjudged best boy and girl athlete of the Unitech fourth National Youth athletics championship, which concluded here at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Saturday.

Kerala boys with four gold, four silver and one bronze emerged triumphant while Tamil Nadu annexed the girls honours with five gold, three silver and six bronze. Poovamma added another gold to her kitty with a 24.8s effort to win the girls 200m sprint, besides anchoring Karnataka to the silver in the 4x400m relay.

Fine first heat

In the 200m Poovamma ran a fine first heat in the morning clocking 24.5s but failed to match the effort in the final later in the day. But with hand timing still in use, the timing could not be considered for a record with Sabina Khatun's (WB) mark of 25.27 seconds still holding good.

Kerala had an overall tally of eight gold, seven of them coming on Saturday. Tamil Nadu had to settle with just five gold, all from its girls' team.

Shivam Singh from Uttar Pradesh flung the discus to a distance of 53.29m to establish a meet record. Shivam's throw was marginally ahead of Pardeep Kumar's (Haryana) mark of 53.00m set in May, 2005.

Devender Ramesh Singh continued the tradition of pole-vaulters from Gujarat stealing a march at the National stage. Devender equalled the two-year meet record of 4.10m set by TN's N. Vadivelu.

The results: Boys: 200m: Md. Wasim Akram (Jhar) 22.2s, 2. Renju Ramanan (Ker) 22.4s, 3. Dharambir Sarda Ram (Har) 22.7s; 800m: 1. Sahil Mahindra (Del) 1:55.6s, 2. Vikas Latiyan (U.P.) 1:56.35s, 3. Pankaj Dimari (Utt) 1:57.0s; 400m hurdles: 1. Jithin Paul (Ker) 53.7s, 2. Sandip Burh (Ori) 54.8s, 3. Parveen Kumar (Har) 55.9s; 5,000m: 1. Vinit Malik (Utt) 16:00.9s, 2. Pramod Singh (Utt) 16:04.4s, 3. Dharmendra Kumar Rai (U.P.) 16:13.0s; High jump: 1. Jithin C. Thomas (Ker) 2.02m, 2. C. Nikhil Chittarasu (TN) 1.99m, 3. I. Oradeep (Har) 1.96m; Triple jump: 1. Pushkar Mehunkar (Mah) 14.44m, 2. Dhiraj Mishra (Mah) 14.27m, 3. Arshad M (Kar) 14.12m; Polevault: 1. Devender Ramesh Singh (Guj) 4.10m (EMR - old: N. Vadivelu (TN) in 2005), Umesh Kumar Yadav (U.P.) 4.00m, 3. J. Preeth (TN) 3.70m; Discus throw: 1. Shivam Singh (U.P.) 53.29m (NMR - Old: Pardeep Kumar (Har) - 53.00m in 2005), 2. Bhalender Singh (Del) 52.52m, 3. Akash Antil (Har) 51.07m; Hammer throw: 1. Ajaj Ahmed (Del) 65.88m (NMR - Old: own record of 65.48 set last year), 2. Harminder Singh (U.P.) 64.77m, 3. Chandrodaya Singh (U.P.) 63.71m; Octathlon: 1. Navjot Singh (Har) 5141 point (NMR - Old: Risni (Har) 5136 set in 2004), 2. Ajit Singh (Guj) 5077, 3. Jagir Minz (Ori) 4993; 4x100m relay: 1. Kerala 43.4s, 2. Jharkhand 43.9s, 3. Maharashtra 44.3s; 4x400m relay: 1. Andhra Pradesh 3:27.3s, 2. Maharashtra 3:28.8s, 3. U.P. 3:29.0s.

Girls: 800m: 1. Steffi Abraham (Ker) 2:19.5s, 2. Amrutha Vhatkar (Mah) 2:22.6s, 3. M. Selvi (TN) 2:22.8s; 200m: 1. M.R. Poovamma (Kar) 24.8s; 2. Shreya Vidwans (Mah), 25.3s; 3. Debashree Mazumdar (WB) 25.6s; 3,000m: 1. L. Surya (TN) 10:27.9s, 2. Sibani Das (WB) 10:33.4s, 3. Anima Kujur (Jhar) 10:48.7s; 400m hurdles: 1. Jauna Murmu (Ori) 1:05.4s, 2. S.S. Anusha (AP) 1:07.0s, 3. K.V. Sajitha (Ker) 1:10.8s; Triple jump: 1. Neethu Mathew (Ker) 12.01m, 2. Melanie Mary Meyers (TN) 11.49m, 3. Pankaja Kolhe (Mah) 11.45m; Discus throw: 1. K. Anitha Devi (AP) 36.61m, 2. Promila Ram (Har) 36.54m, 3. T. Manisha (TN) 36.01m; 5 km walk: 1. K.M. Meeshma (Ker) 27:43.2s, 2. Mamta (Har) 27:51.2s, 3. P. Renuka (Ker) 28:49.2s; Heptathlon: 1. Antana Khatun (WB) 4395 points, 2. Dayona Stanly (Ker) 3897, 3. Niksy Joseph (Ker) 3828; 4x100m relay: 1. Tamil Nadu 49.2s, 2. Maharashtra 49.4s, 3. Kerala 49.6s; 4x400m relay: 1. Kerala 3:57.5s, 2. Karnataka 4:01.1s, 3. Tamil Nadu 4:08.2s.

Best athlete: Boys: Ajay Singh (Del). Girls: M.R. Poovamma (Kar). Team championship: Boys: Kerala (4 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze). Girls: Tamil Nadu (5 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze).