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Arun, Sonia win 800m titles

CHENNAI: U.N. Arun Kumar of Government HSS and P.M. Sonia of St. Anne’s School, both from Kottayam, emerged the boys’ and girls’ 800m winners respectively on the first day of the St. Joseph’s inter-school athletics meet here on Saturday.

The results: Boys: 800m: 1. U.N. Arun kumar (Govt. HSS, Kottayam) 2:03.9s; 2. S. Dharma (Pachaiyappa’s HSS, Chennai); 3. T. Nethaji (Pachaiyappa’s HSS).

Shot put: 1. N. Shankar (SRDF Vivekananda Vidaylala, Chennai) 12.71m; 2. M. Varun (SBOA School and Junior College, Chennai); 3. R. Deivasigamani (NLC HSS, Neyveli).

Long jump: 1. N.S.K. Logarasan (Pachaiyappa’s School, Chennai) 6.66m; 2. N. Sakthivel (S.K.V. HSS, Chennai); 3. K. Premkumar (St. Antony’s HSS, Thanjavur).

Girls: 800m: 1. P.M. Soniya (St. Anne’s HSS, Kottayam) 2:26.7s; 2. M. Nithya (Karnataka Sangah HSS, Chennai); 3. Aleena Thomas (St. Annse, Kottayam).

Shot put: 1. S. Mariammal (M.R. MHSS, Chennai) 9.23m; 2. M. Angel Joseph (Mary’s HSS, Chennai); 3. P. Suganya (Sri V.D.S. Jain, Thiruvannamalai).

100m hurdles: 1. S. Neelaveni (Karnataka Sangah School, Chennai) 18.7s; 2. Krishnadarshini (SBOA School and Junior College, Chennai); 3. S. Anitha (DBTR HSS, Myladuthurai).

Long jump: 1. Melanie Mary Mecers (St. Patrick’s Anglo-Indian HSS, Chennai) 5.38m; 2. A. Manjuka (Karnataka Sangah, Chennai); 3. P. Suganya (Karnataka Sangah). — Special Correspondent

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