Athletics c’ship: Inclement weather fails to dampen spirit of competitors

Our Sports Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 1

An overwhelming number of participants (over 700) turned up to compete in various track and field events. They as well as officials braved rain on the opening day of the Open Ludhiana District Athletics Championship, being organised at Guru Nanak Stadium here today.

It continued to pour heavily most of the time, however, proceedings on the day one went on as per schedule as over two dozen events were completed. The organisers, District Athletics Association, Ludhiana, faced hardships to conduct different games in adverse weather conditions.

In the women’s section, Manpreet Kaur of Guru Hargobind Girls College, Sudhar, emerged as the fastest runner, by winning gold medal in the 100 metre sprint. Vipinjeet and Sukhwinder Kaur secured second and third position, respectively.

In the grueling 10,000 metre race for boys (U-20 category), Vikas Chand from Bahadurke finished ahead of others to bag top honours while Kishan Raj Singh of Arya Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, followed him at the second place and Jatio of Satish Chander Dhawan Government College, Ludhiana, had to contend with the third position.

Ravneet Singh Bittu, Member of Parliament from Ludhiana, was scheduled to inaugurate the championship, but he could not make it to the venue due to unavoidable circumstances. In his absence, senior Congress leader, Gurdev Singh Lapran declared the meet open.

Today’s results

1,500 metre race (boys U-20): First Gursewak Singh of Kohara, second Gursewak Singh of Ludhiana and third Sagar of Arya College.

10,000 metre race (boys U-20): First Vikas Chand of Bahadurke, second Kishan Raj Singh of Arya Senior Secondary School, and third Jatio of SCD Government College.

600 metre race (boys U-14): First Gurjeet Singh of GGN Public School, second Ridham Arora of Peace Public School and third Kanwalpreet Singh of GGN Public School.

1,500 metre race (boys U-18): First Robin Singh of SAI Training Centre, second Yograj Singh of Khanna Public School and third Ajay Kumar of SDP School.

400 metre race (boys U-18): First Gurkamal Singh of GNPS, second Vishavjeet Singh of SAI Training Centre and third Ranjodh Mattu of HVM Convent School.

2,000 metre race (boys U-16): First Manjot Singh of GNPS, second Kunal Dogra of GNPS and third Ashish Gaba of Peace Public School.

400 metre race (boys U-16): First Gurkamal Singh of GNS, Bassian, second Rajvir Singh of GGN Public School, and third Bahadur Singh of Malwa Khalsa School.

400 metre race (men): First Navtej Singh of SCD Government College, second Raju Kumar of Phullanwal and third Jagdeep Singh.

1,500 metre (men): First Gurpreet of Bhaini Sahib, second Sunil of Bahadurke and third Gourav Kumar of GHG College, Sudhar.

10,000 metre (men): First Lakhvir Singh of Services, second Vikram Singh of Services and third Gaurav Kumar of Sudhar.

600 metre race (girls U-14): First Karamvir Kaur of Narottam Vidya Mandir, Khanna, second Taranpreet Kaur of Peace Public School, Mullanpur and third Kamalpreet Kaur of Bassian.

Javelin throw (girls U-18): First Anmolpreet Kaur of Guru Gobind Singh School, second Parneet Kaur of Guru Gobind Singh School and third Simranjeet Kaur of Government Girls College.

Shot put (girls U-18): First Nimanjot Kaur, second Rupinder Kaur and third Charanjot Kaur.

400 metre (girls U-18): First Tarneet Kaur of GNPS, second Jasleen Kaur of SIJMP, Rara Sahib and third Manisha of GSP.

1,500 metre (girls U-18): First Anuradha of Khanna Public School, Khanna, second Jasmeen Puri of Khanna Public School and third Diya of Narottam Vidya Mandir, Khanna.

3,000 metre (girls U-20): First Harneet Kaur of Narottam Vidya Mandir, second Japandeep Kaur of GMT Public School and third Jass Kaur of USPC Jain Public School.

100 metre (girls U-20): First Renu of Khalsa College for Women, second Veena of GNGC and third Monika of Ramgarhia Girls College.

1,500 metre (girls U-20): First Shaili of Khalsa College for Women, second Laxmi Chauhan of Khanna Public School and third Neelam of Narottam Vidya Mandir.