State PU athletics: DK overall champions

Dakshina Kannada district bagged the overall championship in the State-level Pre University Athletics Meet 2015-16 held at Mangala Stadium from December 3 to 6.

Both boys and girls from Dakshina Kannada won the team championships, the boys team winning 67 points and girls team winning 125 points.

Bangaluru South, Udupi and Uttara Kannada districts won the second, third and fourth positions among boys teams, with 43, 23 and seven points respectively.

Among the girls teams, Uttara Kannada, Bangaluru North and Udupi districts secured the second, third and fourth positions with 18, 16 and 13 points respectively.

Individual championships

Devaiah T H, representing Bangaluru South district, won the individual championship among boys. He won the first places in 800 and 1500 metre races and third place in 400 metre race, securing a total of 11 points.

Venissa Carol Quadros from Dakshina Kannada district emerged as the individual championship among girls. She has won first places in all three, 400, 800 metre race and 400 metre hurdles, with 15 points.

The sports meet also witnessed several records retained and broken. In the 200-metre race, Manish from Udupi district, broke his own record from last year, by completing the race in 21.5 seconds. He had completed the race last year in 22 seconds.

Anil Kumar, representing Dakshina Kannada, broke the record of M C Desai of Gadag, by completing the 3000-metre race in 9:19.7 seconds. The old meet record was 09:36.0 seconds.

Amaranath Dukkarwadakar of Belagavi created a new record in the 110-metre hurdles by completing the event in 14.06 seconds. The old meet record was 15.10 second, set by Sandeep Kumar S of Bengaluru South.