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Susmita stars on the opening day

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BANGALORE: Susmita Singha Roy lived up to her billing on the opening day of the 4th National Combined Events and Jumps at the SAI South Centre here on Thursday.

The strapping Bengal athlete is vying for a place in the Beijing Games-bound India athletics team and going by her first day’s performance in heptathlon, Susmita looks likely to join J.J. Shobha who made the grade at the Madurai Inter-State championship earlier this month.

For Susmita to also make the grade-‘A’ standard for two qualifiers, she has to touch the 6,000 points tally and after four events on day one, the Bengal multi-event specialist has accumulated 3,590 points with career best efforts in high jump, shot put and the 200 metres.

Susmita started with 13.91 seconds in the 100m hurdles, well below her best of 13.82s, but then recovered to post 1.77 metres (previous best of 1.74m) in the high jump, 11.93 metres (PB of 11.44 m) in shot put and 23.78 (PB of 23.90 s) in the 200 metres.

G.M. Aishwarya of Karnataka posted a distance of 5.97 metres in the long jump, 1.62 metres in the high jump, both career best efforts in the girls’ under-18 heptathlon events to finish day one on 2749 points — 20 points ahead of Tamil Nadu’s Gayathri (2729 points).

P.J. Vinod of Kerala leapt an impressive 7.24 metres in the long jump decathlon event.

The results:

Boys: U-18: Long jump: 1. B. Azharuddin (TN) 7.07 mts, 2. P. Kesava Ramani (TN) 7.03 m, 3. M. Aeshand (Kar) 6.99m.

Men: High jump: 1. Benadict Starli (TN) 2.15 mts, 2. Manoj T Thomas (Guj) 2.05 m, 3. A. Karthikeyan (TN) 2.05 m.

Long jump: 1. Harikrishna (U.P. 7.47m, 2. Rajesh (Ker) 7.29m, 3. Shamsher Pratap Singh (Pun) 7.28 m.

Decathlon (After three events): 1. P.J. Vinod (Ker) 2477 pts; 2. Ranjit Randhawa (Jhar) 2389 pts; 3. Daya Ram (Jhar) 2275 pts.

Women: High jump: 1. Sahana Kumari (Jhar) 1.86 m, 2. N.K. Siji (Ker) 1.71 m, 3. Maryaan C. Thariyan (Jhar) 1.71 m.

Triple jump: 1. Mayooka Johny (Ker) 13.08 m, 2. Tessymol Joseph (Ker) 12.27m, 3. G. Nandini (TN) 12.07m.

Pole vault: 1. R. Jisha (Ker) 3.20m, 2. Sitara T. Illath (Ker) 3.10m, 3. N. Madhushini Devi (Jhar) 3.00m.

Heptathlon (After four events): 1. Susmita Singha Roy (WB) 3590 pts; 2. Pramila Aiyappa (Jhar) 3541 pts, 3. M.P. Shinimol (Ker) 3021 pts.

Girls: U-20: Pole vault: 1. R. Remya (Ker) 2.90m, 2. KK ANoosha (Ker) 2.90m, 3. S. Archana (Pond) 2.70m. Heptathlon (After four events): 1. Anitha Shree (TN) 2065 pts, 2. B.B. Shubha (Karn) 2049 pts, 3. Manjushree (Karn) 1970 pts.

Girls: U-18: Long jump: 1. G.M. Aishwarya (Karn) 5.97m, 2. Pallavi Sukumar (Karn) 5.77m, 3. Delhin Rani (TN) 5.34m.

Heptathlon (after four events): 1. G.M. Aishwarya (Karn) 2749 pts, 2. G. Gayathri (TN) 2729 pts, 3. K. Bhavya Mandanna (Karn) 2116 pts.

Girls: U-16: Long jump: 1. Nirupama Sunderraj (Kar) 5.25m, 2. Prajna S. Prakash (Karn) 5.13m, 3. Darshana (Goa) 4.83m.

Pentathlon (After three events): 1. Nirupama Sunderraj (Karn) 1689 pts, 2. Prajna S. Prakash (Karn) 1485 pts, 3. Shalini Nak (Karn) 1381 pts.

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