Javelin throwers hog limelight in Jr National Athletics

by sportswire4u.blogspot.com

 LUCKNOW, OCT 27  
The opening day of 28th National Junior Athletics Championships virtually belonged to javelin throwers as they dominated the scene at the Guru Gobind Singh Sports College grounds here with three national records.
Rajendra Kumar Bind of Uttar Pradesh proved too good to his opponents as he started with 72.67m on his first try, an effort that could have been enough to fetch him the gold.  However he went on further
with 74.69m on his second throw before fouled his third attempt.  His fourth throw was a massive 80.14m that improved his national junior mark of 74.75m which he established while winning the Junior Federation Cup at Pune earlier this summer and barely outside the senior national mark of
80.72m standing in the name of Anil Kumar Singh since 2008.  It is only a matter of time for Bind, the promising junior, to remove Anil’s name from record-books on his next appearance.
Like Bind, Haryana’s Kumari Sharmila and U.P. boy Abhishek also established new marks in javelin throw in the youth girls and boys sections respectively.
Sharmila improved her own national mark in the youth girls’ javelin throw while successfully defends her title from the previous edition of Junior Nationals held in Ranchi.  She hurled the newly introduced 500 grams spear to a distance of 47.31m to improve her previous best of 47.09m created when winning the Youth Nationals at Bangalore this July.
Abhishek throw the implement to a new distance of 73.46m.
The opening day also witnessed six meet records being bettered, five of them on track.  Rahul Kumar Pal (14:18.28 in 5000m) and Harish Koranga (3:54.35 in 1500m) in junior men and Jeris Jose (10.76 secs in 100m semis) in youth boys section accounted for new records.  Among the girls, M.K. Sinju Prakash (3.30m in pole vault) and Kerala 4x400m relay quartet (3:45.87) in junior women and Dutee Chand (11.93s in 100m heats) in youth girls section established new marks.
Tamil Nadu’s B. Karthikeyan defends his 100m title from Ranchi in boys’ under-16 age-group clocking 11.07 secs.  Kerala’s Jijin Vijayan (10.82) and Haryana girl Pinki (12.06) become fastest among junior men and junior women divisions.  Tamil Nadu’s Augustine Yesudas extends his winning-streak by taking the youth boys’ crown in 10.87s. Kerala’s Jeris Jose, in spite of his marvellous 10.76s in semi-finals, had beaten to second spot (10.90s) in the final. In the youngest under-14 group, Haryana’s Nuzrat romped home to victory in 11.43 secs.
Dutee Chand, representing Jharkhand here, clinched the youth girls’ sprint title in 11.97 secs while Maharashtra’s Ankita Gosavi (12.58) and Siddhi Hiray (12.81) takes the honour for girls’ u-16 and u-14 categories respectively.