Haryana’s Sumit Rathee set a new meet record in the boys 2000m Steeplechase and Madhya Pradesh’s Abhay Singh equalled the boys 200m sprint meet record to claim the limelight on the third and final day of the AFI National Youth (U18) Athletics Championships at the Mahatma Gandhi Stadium in Ajjarakadu near here today.
Sumit Rathee led three other finishers home inside the Asian Youth Athletics Championships qualifying standard of 6:08.77. Abhay Singh was the only half-lapper to make the grade today.
Himanshu Rathi (800m), Sarthak Shivaji Nimbalakar (High Jump), K Yuvaraj (Triple Jump), Narpat Singh (Hammer Throw), Arjun (Javelin Throw) and all the podium finishers in the 10000m Race Walk were the other boys who met the respective Asian Youth Championships marks on the final day of competition here.
In a thrilling girls 200m final, Maharashtra’s Khushi Sadana Umesh beat West Bengal’s Rezona Mallick Heena by three-hundredths of a second and Haryana’s Nancy but all three met the Asian Youth Athletics Championships qualifying standard.
The results (finals):
Boys U18
200m: 1. Abhay Singh (Madhya Pradesh) 21.87 seconds (Equalled Meet Record. MR: 21.87, Shanmugha Srinivas, Raipur, 2019); 2. Mohammed Reyan Basha (Odisha) 22.22; 3. Shivam (Uttar Pradesh) 22.29.
800m: 1. Himanshu Rathi (Uttar Pradehs) 1:53.61; 2. Yugant Choudhary (Uttar Pradesh) 1:55.87; 3. Rahul Oraon (Madhya Pradesh) 1:56.56.
2000m Steeplechase: 1. Sumit Rathee (Haryana) 5:51.94 (New Meet Record. Old: 5:54.37, Mohammed Noor Hassan, Vadodara, 2018); 2. Mahesh Salla (Telangana) 5:55.52; 3. Banothu Chandra Shaker (Telangana) 6:02.35.
400m Hurdles: 1. Bapi Hansda (Odisha) 51.95 seconds; 2. Vishnu Sri (Tamil Nadu) 54.05; 3. Jerome Sanjay Nishanth (Tamil Nadu) 54.93.
High Jump: 1. Sarthak Shivaji Nimbalakar (Maharashtra) 1.97m; 2. Vishnuvarthan (Tamil Nadu) and Akash Kumar Verma (Delhi) 1.90.
Triple Jump: 1. K Yuvraj (Tamil Nadu) 14.26m; 2. Shekh Zeeshan (Uttar Pradesh) 14.24; 3. Sunny Raj (Bihar) 13.80.
Hammer Throw: 1. Narpat Singh (Rajasthan) 66.2m; 2. Abdul Rahman (Uttar Pradesh) 62.75; 3. Kartik (Uttar Pradesh) 62.45.
Javelin Throw: 1. Arjun (Delhi) 68.90m; 2. Rahul Bali Dhotre (Maharashtra) 65.11; 3. Gaurav Patel (Uttar Pradesh) 62.53.
Decathlon: 1. K Vethapriyan (Tamil Nadu) 5705 points (100: 11.92; LJ: 5.88; SP: 10.37; HJ: 1.67; 400: 52.52; 110mH: 15.12; DT: 29.01; PV: 2.60; JT: 50.58; 1500: 4:52.13); 2. Piyush Raj (Bihar) 5524; 3. Vijay Krishna (Kerala) 5360.
1000m Sprint Medley: 1. Telangana (R Golla Vale, S Harsha Vardhan, Mantipalli Ramesh, Shaik Azaruddin) 1:57.46; 2. Odisha 1:57.55; 3. Delhi 1:58.42.
10000m Race Walk: 1. Babendra Singh (Uttarakhand) 43:34.25; 2. Himanshu Kumar (Uttarakhand) 43:59.63; 3. Amit Kumar (Chhattisgarh) 44:53.56.
Girls
200m: 1. Khushi Sadana Umesh (Maharashtra) 24.58 seconds: 2. Rezoana Mallick Heena (West Bengal) 24.61; 3. Nancy (Haryana) 24.74.
