JOIN USMeghana Devanga of Karnataka won the gold in junior girls’ shot put with a meet record on the penultimate day of the 32nd Junior National Athletics Championships on Sunday.
Meghana tossed the iron ball to 13.93 metres, improving Manpreet Kaur’s 9-year-old mark by 10 centimetres.
Sonal Goyal of Delhi came second with 13.24M while another Karnataka athlete Nivetha T won the bronze with 12.72.
Kerala’s Anumol Thampi was among the three athletes setting meet marks. Anumol, a bronze medalist in last year’s Asian Youth championships at Doha, clocked 10:02.58 in youth girls’ 3000M. Tamil Nadu hurdler Manickam Loganayaki was the other athlete who recorded a meet mark, winning the 400M hurdles for U-20 girls in 60.45 seconds, one hundredth of a second ahead of Punjab’s Veerpal Kaur.
Libia Shaji cleared 1.71 metres to pull a surprise win over pre-event favourite Laimwn Narzary of Assam in the junior women’s high jump.
In the junior boy’s decathlon event, Tamil Nadu’s N Vivekanandan won the gold with 6338 points. Vivekanandan had suffered an injury in a quarrel wit ha Delhi decathlete during pole vault. He completed the events before heading to hospital.
Meanwhile, Karnataka’s Bibisha B won the silver in youth girls 400M hurdles, timing 1:04.25. Also, in the same category, Aishwarya B won the long jump bronze with a leap of 5.69 metres.
Karnataka also won a bronze in the girls under-16 1000M medley relay, a silver in the boys under-18 medley relay and a bronze in the girls under-20 4x100M relay.