Santhosh, Siddharth set new meet marks

He recorded his personal best timing of 50.16 seconds which also is a new meet record. He had earlier clocked 50.64 seconds. “I am very happy to have won my first Open National gold medal and this is my first ever one in the senior category. It was the federation which helped me with my new coach from the United States, Galina. It has been 4-5 months since the appointment of my new coach. I am now planning to focus on the Federation Cup (Feb-Mar 2018) where I will have to clock a time of 49.44 seconds in order to make it to the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Australia.”, said a jubilant Santhosh. Siddarth Yadav from the Railways broke the previous meet record in the men’s long jump event by achieving a height of 2.23 metres.

Results: Men: 20km walk: 1. Ganapathi K (Services) – 1:27:33 2. Sandeep Kumar (Services) - 1:28:30. 3. Manish Rawat (AIP SPO) – 1:28:34 Pole Vault: 1. J Preeth (Rly) – 5.00m 2. Siva (Services) – 5.00m 3. Bimin .K.P (Rly) – 5.00m High Jump: 1. Siddarth Yadav (Rly) – 2.23m 2. V Bharathi (Services) – 2.23m 3. K Anil (Services) – 2.21m 400m Hurdles: 1. Santhosh Kumar (TN) – 50.16 2. Ramachandran (Services) – 51.02 3. Aftab Alam (UP) – 51.33 Discus Throw: 1. Dharam Raj Yadav (Services) – 55.08m 2. Prabhjot Singh (AIP SPO) – 53.69m 3. Gagandeep Singh (Pun) – 52.53m 300m Steeplechase: 1. Sable Avinash (Services) – 8:39.81 2. Shanker Lal Swami (Rajasthan) – 8:56.68 3. Jaiveer Singh (Services) – 8:58.99

Women:Javelin Throw: 1. Anu Rani (Rly) – 57.90m 2. Poonam Rani (Har) – 55.88m 3. Sharmila Kumari (Rly) – 53.76m 400m Hurdles: 1. Jauna Murmu (ONGC) – 58.25 2. Arpitha M (Rly) – 59.97 3. Veerpaul Kaur (Pun) – 1:00.60 3000m Steeplechase: 1. Chinta Yadav (Rly) – 9:49.23 2. Chhani Yadav (Rly) – 10:16.34 3. Khushbu Gupta (UP) – 10:44.40