Sheena accomplished a hat-trick of titles within the triple soar on the National Games.
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Ankit Kumar who received the boys’s 10,000 occasion.
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Ankit Kumar had by no means received a serious medal in nationwide athletics. And, the boys’s 10,000m within the thirty seventh National Games on the Bambolim Athletics Stadium right here on Wednesday evening had some prime names, together with the Asian Games bronze medallist Gulveer Singh and Asian Championship bronze medallist Abhishek Pal.
But Ankit didn’t let that hassle himd. He ran a cool race and someplace across the tenth lap broke into a powerful lead. Shortly after that, he regarded again just a few instances to examine whether or not the others had been anyplace shut. And when he realised that they had been far again, he grew in confidence and stored extending his lead and received by almost a 200m margin.
“I had prepared well for this race, I had not bothered about the others,” mentioned the 22-year-old who hails from the hilly Pauri in Uttarakhand. Abhishek and Gulveer took silver and bronze.
Meanwhile, Kerala’s N.V. Sheena accomplished a hat-trick of National Games triumphs within the ladies’s triple soar — her first got here within the Thiruvananthapuram in 2015 — State-mate Nayana James took the silver.
Poovamma returns
Later many eyebrows had been raised when quartermiler M.R. Poovamma, who was beneath a two-year doping ban that ought to have resulted in June 2024, ran within the ladies’s 4x400m relay last. She had run within the Sri Lankan National championship in July this 12 months when the National Anti-Doping Agency had lifted her suspension. But in September, the NADA admitted that it was a mistake and her ban was again.
Adille Sumariwalla, the AFI president, confirmed to The Hindu that Poovamma’s suspension was over.
Tanya Chaudhary set the day’s lone document, within the ladies’s hammer throw.
Madhya Pradesh’s 18-year-old Dev Meena received the boys’s pole vault gold with 5.16m on Tuesday evening and within the course of broke his personal junior National document (previous document 5.00m) and in addition certified for subsequent 12 months’s under-20 World championships (entry customary 5.10m) in Peru.
Sajan’s new mark
In swimming, Sajan Prakash bettered his personal one-year-old meet document within the 200m butterfly on the Campal Sports Complex on Wednesday. The Karnataka 4x200m males’s and girls’s relay groups additionally improved their meet information on the way in which to gold.
National champion Kerala beat host Goa 7-5 and received the boys’s title in seashore soccer, an occasion which was making its debut right here.
The outcomes:
Athletics: Men: 10,000m: Ankit Kumar (Utr) 29:51.41s; shot put: Samardeep Singh Gill (MP) 18.99m; 4x400m: Services (Shubham Deshmuk, Okay. Sathish, Himanshu, Angrej Singh) 3:07.79s; pole vault: Dev Meena (MP) 5.16m.
Women: 5000m: Seema (HP) 15:44.05s; triple soar: N.V. Sheena (Ker) 13.49m; pole vault: Baranica Elangovan (TN) 3.90m); hammer throw: Tanya Chaudhary (UP) 62.47m (MR, Old: 61.56, Hardeep Kaur, 2001); 4x400m relay: 1. Andhra Pradesh (Kunja Rajitha, M. Shreesha, Chelemi Pratyusha, D. Jyothikasri) 3:37.94m.
Swimming: Men: 200m butterfly: Sajan Prakash (Ker) 1:59.38s (MR, Old: 1:59.56, personal, 2022); 50m breaststroke: S.P. Likith (Ser) 28.71s; 4x200m freeestyle relay: Karnataka 7:37.47s (MR, Old: 7:41.10s, personal, 2022).
Women: 200m butterfly: Astha Choudhury (Asm) 2:19.29s; 50m breaststroke: Chahat Arora (Pun) 34.09s. 4X200m freeestyle relay: Karnataka 8:49.74s (MR, Old: 8:51.59s, personal, 2022).
Beach soccer: Final: Kerala 7 (T.Okay.B. Muhseer 2, 28 & 29; Muhammed Unais 18, Okay.Okay. Umarul Mukthar 20, Y. Rohith 25, Ali Akbar 36) bt Goa 5 (Pedro Gonsalves 9-p, 11 & 13; Richard Cardoz 22 & 30).
