Ajay and Poorvi emerge fastest
LUCKNOW : As many as 30 events for both boys and girls in under-14 and under-16 categories in the District Athletics Championship on Monday witnessed a huge participation of 232 young shoulders, challenging each other, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here.
Most of them were quite raw, but their enthusiasm in giving in their best was a treat to watch and that is what the Athletics Federation of India has been emphasizing under its new policy for all the athletics units across the country.
Undoubtedly, the District Athletics Association with the help of the Regional Sports Office held a good show where youngsters didn’t even mind in trying their luck on hurdles for the first time. “Have seen athletes’ crossing over hurdles like a blaze on TV so I too chose to participate in the event,” said one Guriya, who was thrilled to be the part of the event on Monday.
Ajay Kumar Chauhan and Poorvi Rastogi in Under-14 categories emerged fastest winners as they finished top in 100m dash in either categories. In the under-16 categories, Deepanshu Patel and Rashmi Singh excelled. Later, Ajay and Priya Mishra were named best athletes in under-14 category, whereas Deepanshu and Harshita Yadav were honoured in the under-16 category.
Other gold medal winners in different events, included Umair Khan, Seetesh Singh, Ashish Singh, Ali Haider, Ruby Yadav, Priya Mishra, Gauri Pandey, Suchita Verma, Sheshnath yadav, Payal Chauhan, Vikas Kumar, Garima Yadav, Abhishek Kumar, Sapna Rai, Saurabh, Shreya Yadav, Shikhar Singh, ragini Singh, Devashish Verma, Yashi Sarna, Shreekant Singh, Ragini Singh, Rudransh, Harshita Yadav, Aijek Lartius and Poornima.
COLLEGE CRICKET
JNPG and Shia PG College marched into the final of the Sundari Devi Inter Collegiate Cricket Tournament, notching up convincing wins here on Monday. JNPG College beat LCC by eight wickets, whereas SPGC beat BSNVPGC by 76 runs.
BRIEIF SCORES
LCC 95 in 19.1 overs (Mudassir 38*, Rohit Bhadur 24, Harshit Tiwari 3/12, Anand Srivastava 2/12) lost to JNPG College 99/2 in 13.4 overs
(Bhupendra Singh 35*, Arvind Rajput 26, Vikasdeep Yadav 21). SPGC 192/9 in 20 overs
(Saad 67, Nikhil Singh 47, Murtaza 33 Kanhayia Kumar 4/43, Abhishek Yadav 2/24) lost to BSNVPGC 116/9 in 20 overs
(Suhail 53 Arpit Singh Yadav 38, Nikhil Singh 2/9, Shiva Yadav 2/21).
SITAPUR WIN
Sitapur’s 2nd battalion emerged overall champions with 106 points in the 21st Central Zone PAC Athletics Championship here on Monday. Hosts 35th Battalion, PAC, Lucknow with 75 points finished second. Sitapur’s Seetu Kumar was named best athlete. On Monday, Ajeet Kumar, Aneesh Singh, Puneet Kumar, Ambika yadav, Sujeet Kumar Yadav, Balwant Yadav and Seetu Kumar won gold medals in different events.