Animesh and Pooja hog the limelight

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Harayana’s Pooja Singh claimed the excessive bounce gold within the 62nd Nationwide Open athletics championships at Sree Kanteerava Stadium, in Bengaluru on October 14, 2023.
| Photograph Credit score: Ok. MURALI KUMAR

Animesh Kajur of Odisha sprinting to a new meet record in the 200m at the 62nd National Open athletics championships at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on October 14.

Animesh Kajur of Odisha sprinting to a brand new meet report within the 200m on the 62nd Nationwide Open athletics championships at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on October 14.
| Photograph Credit score:
Ok. MURALI KUMAR

Teenager Pooja Singh clinched the gold medal within the girls’s excessive bounce occasion on the 62nd Nationwide Open athletics championships on the Sree Kanteerava Stadium right here on Saturday.  The 16-year-old, who completed sixth within the 2022 Asian Video games, took the honours with a 1.81m bounce. 

Within the males’s 200m, Odisha’s Animesh Kujur created a brand new meet report. Kujur’s timing of 20.74s bettered the earlier mark set by Amlan Borgohain (20.75s) in 2021. 

Asian Video games bronze medalist Vithya Ramraj was listed as a starter within the girls’s 400m hurdles, however didn’t compete. Railways’ Sinchal Kaveramma (57.88s) received gold within the occasion. 

The outcomes (winners): Males: 200m: Animesh Kujur (Odi), 20.74s (NMR, Previous: Amlan Borgohain, 20.75s, 2021); 800m: Satya Dev (Har), 1:51.89s; 400m hurdles: Nikhil Bharadwaj (Pun), 50.45s; 3,000m steeplechase: Mohammed Hasan (SSCB), 8:38.70s; Triple bounce: A.B. Arun (SSCB), 16.46m

Girls: 200m: Kamaljeet Kaur (Pun), 23.66s; 800m: Yamuna Ladkat (Mah), 2:01.95s; 400m hurdles: Sinchal Kaveramma (Rlys), 57.88s; Excessive bounce: Pooja Singh (Har), 1.81m; Heptathlon: Sonu Kumari (Rlys), 4933 factors; Javelin: Jyoti (Har), 53.59m; 3,000m steeplechase: Komal Jagdale (Rlys), 10:32.14s.

4x400m blended relay: ONGC 3:23.33s

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