Air Force organises 5-km mini-marathon

Tribune News Service 

Chandigarh, January 20

As part of the Republic Day celebrations, a mini marathon was organised by the IAF at the No.3 Base Repair Depot (BRD) here today. A large number of Air Force personnel, including their families, NCC cadets as well as school and college students of different age groups participated in the event.

The marathon, covering a distance of 5 km, was flagged-off by Air Commodore Sanjiv Ghuratia, Air Officer Commanding, 3 BRD. 

Around 50 cadets, including girls of No.1 Chandigarh Air Squadron also participated in the marathon and bagged five trophies. 

In the girls’ above 16 years category, the first three positions were bagged by Shivani Sharma and Sushma Soni, both of Post Graduate Government College (PGGC), Sector-11, and Himani Joshi of DAV College, Sector 10, respectively, while in boys’ above 16 years category, the first and third position were bagged by Sachin Kumar and Kush Malik, both of the PGGC.

A static display of Air Force equipment was also organised by the IAF to familiarise and motivate students, while NCC cadets organised an aero-modeling show and held demonstration of remote controlled flying models.