<p>Karnataka’s Meghana Shetty set a meet record of 14.18s on her way to winning the Youth girls’ 100M hurdles on the second day of the National Inter-Zone Junior athletics Championships on Sunday. </p>.<p>Puneet Chauhan of Haryana and Ankita Sunil Gosavi of Maharashtra set national records in the boys’ under-14 600M and girls’ under-16 100M hurdles. <br /><br />Ankita clocked 14.45 secs to win the girls’ event as she eclipsed Meghana’s mark of 14.57 set two years back.<br /><br />Another Maharashtra girl Shriya Vilas Kolge (15.29) and Karnataka’s Simona Mascarenhas (15.42) took the silver and bronze medals respectively. <br /><br />In the boys’ under-14 600M, Puneet shattered the national record with a time of 1:24.54s. Three other athletes who finished behind him also bettered the previous national record of 1:26.60 which was in the name of Manipur’s S Ibungo Singh since 1994. <br /><br />The day also saw seven new meet marks being set. Local favourite Aneesh Abhay Joshi set a meet mark of 14.19 secs while taking the top honours in junior men’s 110M hurdles.<br /><br />Aneesh, however, failed in his bid to improve the national record of 13.92s which stands in the name of J Surendhar of Tamil Nadu. </p>
<p>Karnataka’s Meghana Shetty set a meet record of 14.18s on her way to winning the Youth girls’ 100M hurdles on the second day of the National Inter-Zone Junior athletics Championships on Sunday. </p>.<p>Puneet Chauhan of Haryana and Ankita Sunil Gosavi of Maharashtra set national records in the boys’ under-14 600M and girls’ under-16 100M hurdles. <br /><br />Ankita clocked 14.45 secs to win the girls’ event as she eclipsed Meghana’s mark of 14.57 set two years back.<br /><br />Another Maharashtra girl Shriya Vilas Kolge (15.29) and Karnataka’s Simona Mascarenhas (15.42) took the silver and bronze medals respectively. <br /><br />In the boys’ under-14 600M, Puneet shattered the national record with a time of 1:24.54s. Three other athletes who finished behind him also bettered the previous national record of 1:26.60 which was in the name of Manipur’s S Ibungo Singh since 1994. <br /><br />The day also saw seven new meet marks being set. Local favourite Aneesh Abhay Joshi set a meet mark of 14.19 secs while taking the top honours in junior men’s 110M hurdles.<br /><br />Aneesh, however, failed in his bid to improve the national record of 13.92s which stands in the name of J Surendhar of Tamil Nadu. </p>