District bags overall masters athletic championship

The district bagged 45 gold, 39 silver and 22 bronze medals.

Displaying exceptional performance N R Shankarrao, K C Poovaiah, K L Patil, B K Somashekar, Amarnath and K S Seethamma bagged three gold medals each at the tournament.

Results

Gold medalists men

Amaranth (100M, 200M and long jump), Pemmaiah (Shot put), Dr Padmanabha (400M, 800M), Krishnamurthy M N (400M Hurdles), Puttanaiahchar (800M, 1500M), Nanaiah M M (400M, 800M), B K Somashekar (100M, 200M and long jump), C R Anand (Hammer Throw), H R Ramaswamy (5000M), Subbushetty (5km walkathon), Mahadevu S (400M), K L Patil (1500M, 5000M, 10000M), M V V Swamy (100M), K L Poovaiah (100M, 200M, 400M), N R Shankarrao (100M, 200M, 5km walkathon).

Gold medalists women

Nethravathi D V (800M), Anitha Kalaiah (Hammer throw), Akkamma M N (Javelin), Pushpalatha A V (400M, 800M), Rajalakshmi H (5km walkathon), B C Parvathi (5km walkathon, 1500M), Sujatha H M (Hammer throw, High Jump), Vijayaramesh (Shot put, high jump), Parvathi Kantharaju (800M Hurdles, 100M), K S Seethamma (Discuss, Shot put, Javelin), a release said.