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Wednesday, September 15, 1999

Punjab emerge overall champs

UNITED NEWS OF INDIA  
LUCKNOW, SEPT 14: Punjab won the over-all championship of the 39th Inter-state athletics meet which concluded at the Guru Govind Singh Sports college today.

Uttar Pradesh (73 points) won the men's team championship followed by Kerala (64) and Punjab (57) while Punjab (76) won the women's team championship. Kerala (67) and Delhi (65) came second and third respectively.

GG Prameela of Karnataka won the best women athlete of the meet award while the men's award went to T Durai of Tamil Nadu.

Today, three new meet records were established. Thirugnanadurai established one in 100 metre men's race, clocking 10.40 seconds. The other two came in hammer throw. Virendra Punia of Rajasthan bettered his own mark of 65.92m with a 67.41, while Surinderjeet Kaur of Punjab bettered her last year's record with 53.26m.

PT Usha won her second gold in 100m clocking 11.61s. Saraswati Dey of West Bengal and Vinita Tripathi of Delhi came second and third respectively.

AAFI team, consisting Vinita Tripathi, S Mitra,Sukumari and S Geeta won the women's 4x400 metre relay clocking the distance in 3:41.07 secs, followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

RESULTS

Men: Decathlon: Dharmpal Singh (Har) 6398 points, Barmeshwar Nath (Guj), P Kannan(TN); 10,000m: K Shankar (TN) 30:50.8s, Harish Tewari (UP), Satish Kumar (Raj); 400m: P Ramchandran (TN) 46.40s, Manoj Lal (Ker), Jata Shankar (UP); Hammer throw: Virendra Poonia (Raj) 67.41m (NMR), Rupinder Pal Singh (Pun), Rakesh Kumar (UP); Triple Jump: Robin M Verghese (Ker) 15.96m, Gurmeet Singh (Pun), Digio Bregenza (Guj); 400m hurdles: Shish Pal (Har) 52.03s, Murli Doss (TN), Abhishek Pande (UP); 100m: Thirugnana Durai (TN) 10.40s (NMR), Anand Menezes (Mah), T Gogai (Bihar); 4x400m relay: Kerala (3:11.19), AAFI, UP;

Women: 100m: PT Usha (Ker) 11.61s, Saraswati Dey (WB), Vinita Tripathi (Del); 400m hurdles: Arti Rai (MP) 59.89s, B Joseph (UP), Rajinderpal Kaur (Pun); 4x400m relay: AAFI 3:41.07, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; 10,000m walk: Jasmeen Kaur (Pun) 53:18.5, Y Bala Devi (WB),Jiji Jose (Ker); 10,000m: Pushpa Devi (Del) 36:18.8, L Aruna Devi (WB), Amarjeet Kaur (Pun); Hammer Throw: Surinderjit Kaur (Pun) 53.26m (NMR), K Jibeswari (WB), Hardeep Kaur (Pun); Triple Jump: Anju Markose (TN) 12.97m, Anusuyia C Roy (TN), Reena Thomas (Ker); Heptathlon: JJ Shobha (AP) 4802, JR Udai Luxmi (AP), Poonam Shau (Har).

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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