JOIN USPrajusha powers to triple jump gold medal
Prajusha leapt to 13.41 metres to complete a double, having won the long jump two days back. Railways, with an overall tally of 22 gold, 21 silver and 14 bronze, won the overall team championships. They took away the men’s and women’s titles as well, with 11 and 11 gold medals each.
Distance runners Surendra Singh and Kavita Raut claimed double crowns, adding the 10000M titles to the 5000M gold medals they had won on the opening day. Surender timed 29:19.40 while Kavita clocked 33:57.40.
Services C Hamza won the men’s 1500 easily, in 3:42.87 while Abdul Najeeb Qureshi, who had lost the 100M badly, bounced back to tak ethe 200M in 21.21 seconds.
Results: Men: 200M: Abdul Najeeb Qureshi (AP) 21.21 seconds, 1; S Arunjith (Railways) 21.26, 2; M Manikandaraj (TN) 21.75, 3. 1500M: C Hamza (Services) 3:42.87, 1; Ebenazer (Services) 3:48.02, 2; Rajan K K (Services) 3:48.94, 3 10000M: Surendra Singh (Services) 29:19.40, 1; Sandeep (Railways) 30:03.66, 2; B C Tilak (Services) 30:05.14, 3. Shot put: Om Prakash (Haryana) 19.00 metres, 1; Gurpreet Singh (Punjab) 17.41, 2; Satender Singh (Railways) 17.28, 3. Javelin: Om Narayan (Railways) 75.15 metres, 1; Kashinath Naik (Services) 74.21, 2; Ramandeep Singh (Punjab) 73.47, 3. 4x100 relay: Railways 40.58 seconds, 1; Services 41.57, 2; Tamil Nadu 41.82, 3. 4x400 relay: Railways 3:08.13, 1; Services 3:09.94, 2; Punjab 3:12.24, 3. Women: 200M: K Sowjanya (AP) 24.16 seconds, 1; H M Jyothi (AP) 24.16, 2; Santhini V (Kerala) 24.79, 3. 1500M: Sushma Devi (Railways) 4:22.86, 1; S R Bindu (Railways) 4:24.08, 2; Priayanka Patel (Railways) 4:25.70, 3. 10000M: Kavita Raut (Maharashtra) 33:57.40, 1; Preeti L Rao (Railways) 36:06.86, 2; Lalita Babar (Railways) 37:20.01, 3. Triple jump: Prajusha M A (Railways) 13.41 metres, 1; Tessymol Joseph (Railways) 13.17, 2; Shradha Gule (Maharashtra) 12.87, 3. Hammer throw: Sukanya Mishra (Railways) 56.81 metres, 1; Gunjan Singh (UP) 54.35, 2; Ushma D Singh (Railways) 54.32, 3. Heptathlon: Pramila Aiyappa (Railways) 5330, 1; Sindhu K D (Kerala) 4890, 2; Navpreet Kaur (Punjab) 4811, 3. 4x100M relay: Andhra Pradesh 46.45 seconds, 1; Railways 47.08, 2; Kerala 47.50, 3. 4x400M relay: Kerala 3:45.68, 1; Railways 3:48.79, 2; Andhra Pradesh 4:04.88, 3. Team championships: Overall: Railways. Men: Railways. Women: Railways. Best athletes: Men: Renjith M (Railways). Women: Tintu Luka (Kerala).