Maharashtra emerges topper in WZ junior althletic meet

Pune, Sep 19: Hosts Maharashtra, exercising their domination, aggregated a whopping tally of 677 points and retained the overall general championship title for the seventh year in row in the West Zone Junior Athletic Championship that concluded at the Shiv Chhatarapati Sports City near here today.

Arch rivals Madhya Pradesh, despite a bold bid, had to rest content with the runner-up position, totalling 393 points. The other four states in the fray -- Rajasthan, Goa, Chattisgarh and Gujarat -- failed to make any impression in the three-day meet which was hosted under the aegis of the Pune International Marathon Trust (PIMT).

Maharashtra boys accumulated a tally of 430 points while their counterparts from Madhya Pradesh aggregated 286 points. In the corresponding girls section, the hosts totalled 247 points against the rivals' 107.

Maharashtra owed their success to promising sprinter Ashwin Shetty, Avdesh Kumar, Surjit Choudhary, Maninder Singh, along with the girls team captain Pankaja Khole, Rehma Dalvi, Kavita Jagtap, Shreya Vidwans and Amruta Watkar.

SPORTS-ATHLETICS-JUNIOR TWO LAST PUNE Following are the results: Boys Under 20: Shot Put: Shakti Singh (Raj) 1, Samarjit Singh (Raj) 2, Baljinder Singh (Mah) 3. Dist: 15.66 mtrs. 110 M Hurdles: Tejas Karkhanis (Mah) 1, Avinash Akodia (MP) 2, Anil Ainapure (Mah) 3. Time: 14.9 secs.

400 Meters: Guvinderpal Singh (Raj) 1, Rahul Rupanwar (Mah) 2, Upender Parmar (Guj) 3. Time: 49.4 secs.

Boys Under 18: Hardeep Singh (Mah) 1, Tejinder Singh (Raj) 2, Anuj Kumar Rai (Chtgh) 3. Dist: 15.66 mtrs.

1500 Meters: Rakesh Rohit (Mah) 1, Gaurav Kumar (MP) 2, Sandeep Kalgude (Mah) 3. Time: 4:03:08.

400 Meters: Jaspal Singh (Raj) 1, Bharat Bhooshan Singh (MP) 2, Dolesh Pathak (MP) 3. Time: 49.8 secs.

Boys Under 16: 400 Meters: Gulabsingh Vasave (Mah) 1, Kuldip Bhonge (Mah) 2, Anil Kakade (MP) 3. Time: 51.9 secs.

Boys Under 14: Triathlon: Group A: Ranjit Kumar (Raj, 1595 pts) 1, Naresh Kadori (Mah, 1578 pts) 2, Jagdish Kalshetty (Goa, 1564 pts) 3.

Group B: Ajay Pratap (MP, 1416 pts) 1, Vijay Jaswal (MP, 1277 pts) 2, Nikhil Kadam (Mah, 1105 pts) 3.

Group C: Mukesh Kumar Mohanto (Chtgh) 1, Bakul Patel (Guj, 1966 pts) 2, Anasu Vasave (Mah, 1851 pts) 3.

Girls Under 20: Long Jump: Mayuri Thakur (Mah) 1, Prachita Patankar (Mah) 2, Shilpa Pal (Chtgh) 3. Dist: 5.09 mtrs.

400 Meters: Archana Badoria (MP) 1, Kavita Jagtap (Mah) 2, Sulochana Bhandwe (Mah) 3. Time: 59.6 secs.

Girls Under 18: Long Jump: Pankaja Khole (Mah) 1, Parul Golvalkar (Guj) 2, Uma Patel (Guj) 3. Dist: 5.08 mtrs.

Girls Under 16: 400 Meters: Amruta Watkar (Mah) 1, Tanvi Shanbag (Mah) 2, Sonali Shetye (Goa) 3. Time: 60.05 secs.

100 M Hurdles: Deepika Varakhe (Mah) 1, Diksha Ashok (Goa) 2, Dhanashree Kalge (Mah) 3. Time: 15.4 secs.

Long Jump: Shradha Ghule (Mah) 1, Bhaygyashree Shirke (Mah) 2, Priyaranjan S C (MP) 3. Dist: 5.41 mtrs.

Girls Under 14: Triathlon: Group A: Sanjana Lahange (Mah, 1385 pts) 1, Snehal Tarkele (Mah, 1217 pts) 2, Smigda Tiwari (Goa, 1104 pts) 3.

Group B: Shreya Tingare (Mah, 1367 pts) 1, Anita Saldana (Goa, 1069 pts) 2, Pranita Ghate (Mah, 1044 pts) 3.

Group C: Pooja Patil (Mah, 1806 pts) 1, Heta Thakkar (Mah, 1349 pts) 2, Talula Breganza (Goa, 1204 pts) 3.

UNI