Sameer Mon, the veteran sprinter of India, on 30 June 2016 won gold in 100 meter dash in 10.60 seconds at the 56th National Inter-state Senior Athletics Championships in Hyderabad. With this, Sameer, representing Manipur, also became the fastest athlete in the country. 32-year-old Sameer was a member of the bronze winning Indian 4x100m relay quartet in Delhi Commonwealth Games. He had
earlier won the Inter-state titles in 2008 and 2011.
Other results of 56th National Inter-state Senior Athletics Championships are
Women's 100 metre dash: Reena George of Karnataka won Gold by clocking 11.99 seconds. Earlier, she switched from 400 meter dash to 100 meter dash.
Women's pole vault: Khyati Vakharia of Karnataka won Gold by clearing the season’s best 3.80 metre.
Women's 100 metre hurdles: M Sugina of Kerala clocked a personal best of 14.17 seconds to win gold.
Men’s 110 metre hurdles: D Sreekanth of Kerala won Gold by clocking personal best of 14.54 seconds.
Women’s Triple Jump: Shilpa Chacko won third gold for Kerala by clearing 13.22 metre. She was the only jumper among the four participants to leap over 13 metre.
Men's 20 km walk: Gujarat's Babubhai Panocha took his third Inter-state title in men's with a time of 1 hour 31 minutes 26 seconds.
No comments:
Post a Comment