Pooja creates NR in U-18 heptathlon of National Jr Athletics champions
Sportslogon team December 10th 2024
Bhubaneswar : Haryana girl Pooja on her debut in the U-18 Women’s Heptathlon event dominated the show by winning the gold medal with 5102 points with New National Record in the National Junior Athletics Championship 2024 at Kalinga Stadium here on Tuesday. The earlier record was in the name of R Khatun with 4357 points.
The silver and bronze medal claimed by Sriteja Tholem of Telangana and Khusi of Haryana with 5087 and 4359 points respectively.
Top four finisher of the U-20 men’s 5000 were cross passed the previous meet record of 14:13.95 set by Sunil Dawar in the year 2021 at Guwahati. Vinod Singh of Madhya Pradesh won the gold with (14:12.76), Gourav Bhosle of Maharashtra got silver with (14:13.06), Vivek Chand of Gujarat (14:13.46) won the silver and Vikash Kumar Bind of Madhya Pradesh finished fourth with (14:13.52).
Similarly, top five finisher of U-16 girls pentathlon event shattered the NR of 3616 points of B Vyshali. The gold, silver and bronze medals bagged by Sathvika Sakthivel of Tamil Nadu (3884),Baddi Vyshali
In the U-14 girls kids javelin event, Minakshi of Haryana scarped the old national record of 36.50m and bagged the gold medal with 46.81m and rewrote the NR. While Rahi Chauvan of Maharashtra won the silver medal with a throw of 38.54m and Anushree Biswas of West Bengal claimed the bronze medal with (36.01m).
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This news was added and updated on : December 12th 2024