Shot putter Manpreet wins gold in Nationals

Guntur (AP), July 15 

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Manpreet Kaur did not disappoint, picking up the gold medal for Haryana in the women’s shot put with an effort of 15.65m, while three meet records fell on the opening day of the National Inter-State Athletics Championships here today.

It was a below-par show by the Asian champion but her performance was enough to take her to the top of the podium ahead of UP’s Anamika Das (14.42m) and Punjab’s Ramanpreet Kaur (14.25m).

Asian champion G Lakshmanan grabbed the gold medal in the men’s 5000m race. Lakshmanan, representing Tamil Nadu, clocked 14 minutes, 7.76 seconds. Uttarakhand’s Man Singh (14:20.50) and Kalidas Hirave (14:24.91) of Maharashtra were in second and third positions, respectively.

Meanwhile, L Suriya (women’s 5000m), Anu Raghavan (women’s 400m hurdles) and Sarita Singh (women’s hammer throw) all created meet records at the newly-laid blue track at the Acharya Nagarjuna University. Tamil Nadu’s Suriya (15:46.92) finished ahead of Asian Championships bronze medallist Sanjivani Babur Jadhav (16:35.64). In the evening session, Anu of Kerala broke the meet record with a personal best of 57.21 seconds. Sarita, who set a national record at the Federation Cup last month, also created a new meet record with a best throw of 63.22m. Punjab’s Sarabjeet Kaur (53.96m) was third. — PTI