Pratiksha sets new meet record
LUCKNOW:Uttar Pradesh athletes finished their campaign in the 35th National Junior Athletics Championships at the Acharya Nagarjuna University campus at Guntur on Wednesday on a high as young Pratiksha Patel set up a new meet record in girls under-16 javelin throw with a 43.08m effort, breaking the old mark of 41.24 set by Jyoti in 2017. Ramyashree Jain of Karnataka also went past Jyoti’s mark in taking second place with 41.33m in a fine duel with Pratiksha Patel.
Besides Pratiksha’s record breaking effort, Uttar Pradesh athletes also won three gold, one silver and a bronze medal on the final day of the five-day championship on Wednesday.
Mohammed Nur Hasan clocked 9:23.48 seconds to give UP’s their first gold of the day in the 3000 metre steeplechase event in the boys under-20. He was followed by Kerala’s Manoj Kumar M and Suhas Prabhakar Bankar of Maharashtra.
Sports Authority of India’s Varanasi trainee Rebi Pal too walked away with gold in the girls under-18 3000m steeplechase. She clocked 9:50.64 seconds to push Gujarat’s Drashtiben Pravinbhai Chaudhri and Supriti Kashyap of Jharkhand to the second and third spots, respectively.
Amit Chaudhary bagged the final gold for Uttar Pradesh ob Wednesday, finishing top in the boys under-16 2000m event, clocking 5:42.77 seconds. Tamil Nadu’s Walter Kandulna and Uttar Pradesh’s Dushyant bagged silver and bronze, respectively.
UP’s only silver medal came in the boys under-16 200m dash when Aman Khokar clocked 22.18 seconds to finish second. Haryana’s Kapil stood top, whereas Riday Samar Jana of Maharashtra finished third.
Earlier, Telangana’s G Maheshwari scripted the sole national record on the final day, winning the girls under-20 3000m steeplechase crown with a time of 10:34.10 that was 12.71 seconds faster than her previous best in the event.
Running a race of her own, with the competitors fighting for the second spot, Maheshwari easily secured the National Record that was pegged at 10:53.91 by Nandini Gupta in Lucknow in 2017 and the Meet Record that stood at 10:55.54 in Khushboo Gupta’s name since the Mangalagiri meet in 2017.
UP TEAM
Uttar Pradesh Table Tennis Association on Wednesday announced its teams for the upcoming nationals. The team included players like Arnav Panwar, Akshit Bhatia, Darsh Srivastava, Aditya Chand Raja, Anika Gupta, Suhani Mahajan, Avani Tripathi, Trisha, Sarth Mishra, Shivam Chandra, Divyansh Srivastava, Sridhar Joshi, Ambika Gupta, Vartica Bharat, Kavya Yadav, Anika Gupta, Akshat Tyagi, Vibhor Garg, Shivam Chandra, Suhana Narjinary, Ambika Gupta, Mahika Dixit, Radhapriya Goyal, Parth Mishra, Hridyanshi Jha, Abhinav Belwal, Abhishek Yadav, Parth Mishra, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Rahul Singh, Tanu Gupta and Mahika Dixit.
GSI VOLLEYBALL
Central Region, Nagpur team lifted the trophy of 35th All India, Geological Survey of India Volleyball Tournament, beating hosts Northern Region Lucknow by 25-9, 25-17 and 25-18, at the Vasundara Complex, Geological Survey of India here.