Date:20/11/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/11/20/stories/2004112001651700.htm

Sport - Athletics

Three records rewritten

KOLKATA, NOV. 19. Three more meet marks were set on the penultimate day of the four-day 53rd all-India police athletics meet at the Salt Lake Stadium here on Friday.

The results (winners only): Men: 400m: Jata Shankar Mishra (UP) 47.49s. 5,000: Upendra K. (CRPF) 14:39.64. 110m hurdles: Gurinderpal Singh (Pun) 14.54s. Hammer throw: Kulwinder Singh (Pun) 66.82m (NMR, previous 66.70m by B.R.H. Prasad, 1999). 4x100m relay: Punjab Police 41.12s.

Women: 5,000m: Sunita Rani (Pun) 16:35.59s (NMR, previous 16:59.96s by Dipika Biswas, 2003). 400m hurdles: Ashik Beevi P.H. (CRPF) 58.91s. High jump: Deepa A.K. (CRPF) 1.63m. Long jump: Anisha K. Vijayan (CRPF) 6.19m (NMR, previous 6.01m by A.K. Deepa, 2000). Pole vault (new event): Deepa Choudhary (CRPF) 3.20m. Shot put: Saroj Sihag (CRPF) 14.52m. — Our Special Correspondent