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Bangaon village girls dominates national Jr athletics javelin event
Sportslogon team December 11th 2024
Bhubaneswar : The Braveheart girls of Bangaon village, Fatehabad districts of Haryana made a clean sweep in the javelin events of the 39th National Junior Athletics Championship, which concluded here at Kalinga Stadium on Wednesday.
Coach Hanuman Singh’s six students participated in different age group javelin event and bagged four gold and two silver medals, also rewrote two national record and created one new meet record.
“It’s one of the toughest times for one of my thrower Poonam. When we are made all the preparation for the championship, she lost her father on the 1st of December this month, with a heavy heart she took part and won a silver medal with a personal best throw”, said coach Hanuman Singh.
Poonam is having a bight future, she won silver medal each in Junior National at Bhubaneswar in U-18, Federation Cup at Lucknow in U-20 and also in Junior South Asian Athletics Championships.
Talking about the infrastructure and the name of his academy, Hanuman said “the grassroot program started in the year 2012, the girls have created records in U14, U18, U20 and even U23 competitions, but yet to give any name to the academy. We do not have any synthetic ground for practice in Bangaon village. Three to four times in a month particularly on Sunday we travelled 60km to practices in a nearby synthetic track”
. In the U-20 Women’s javelin Deepika won the gold medal with 52.45m and created a new meet record. The previous record was in the name of Puspa Jakhar (49.05m) in the year 2016. Bhavya Pilania and Poonam grabbed the U-18 girls javelin gold and silver medals with 52.70 and 50.73 m respectively.
In the U-16 girls javelin event, Muskan and Nisha won gold and silver medal with a distance of 46.87 and 44.24m respectively. Both the Bangaon village girls crossed the previous NR of 40.01m set by Shivani Patel in 2024. Similarly, in the U-14 girls javelin event Minakshi scrapped the old national record with 41.84 m throw. The earlier NR was in the name of Dhriti Anand (36.50m) in the year 2024. .
Sportslogon team December 11th 2024
Bhubaneswar : The Braveheart girls of Bangaon village, Fatehabad districts of Haryana made a clean sweep in the javelin events of the 39th National Junior Athletics Championship, which concluded here at Kalinga Stadium on Wednesday.
Coach Hanuman Singh’s six students participated in different age group javelin event and bagged four gold and two silver medals, also rewrote two national record and created one new meet record.
“It’s one of the toughest times for one of my thrower Poonam. When we are made all the preparation for the championship, she lost her father on the 1st of December this month, with a heavy heart she took part and won a silver medal with a personal best throw”, said coach Hanuman Singh.
Poonam is having a bight future, she won silver medal each in Junior National at Bhubaneswar in U-18, Federation Cup at Lucknow in U-20 and also in Junior South Asian Athletics Championships.
Talking about the infrastructure and the name of his academy, Hanuman said “the grassroot program started in the year 2012, the girls have created records in U14, U18, U20 and even U23 competitions, but yet to give any name to the academy. We do not have any synthetic ground for practice in Bangaon village. Three to four times in a month particularly on Sunday we travelled 60km to practices in a nearby synthetic track”
. In the U-20 Women’s javelin Deepika won the gold medal with 52.45m and created a new meet record. The previous record was in the name of Puspa Jakhar (49.05m) in the year 2016. Bhavya Pilania and Poonam grabbed the U-18 girls javelin gold and silver medals with 52.70 and 50.73 m respectively.
In the U-16 girls javelin event, Muskan and Nisha won gold and silver medal with a distance of 46.87 and 44.24m respectively. Both the Bangaon village girls crossed the previous NR of 40.01m set by Shivani Patel in 2024. Similarly, in the U-14 girls javelin event Minakshi scrapped the old national record with 41.84 m throw. The earlier NR was in the name of Dhriti Anand (36.50m) in the year 2024. .
This news was added and updated on : December 12th 2024
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