Date:08/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/08/stories/2008080857751900.htm

Sport - Athletics

Kerala wins team championship

Madurai: Kerala won the men’s team championship with a tally of 56 points, while Andhra Pradesh won the women’s team championship with a total of 43 points in three-day 8th all-India BSNL athletics meet, which concluded at MGR Race Course stadium here on Thursday.

The results:

Men: 100m: 1. V. Girish 11.0s, 2. V. Ashokkumar, 3. Vikas M. Puthiran. 20km walk: 1. R.K. Patel 2:03:33.0s, 2. Dillip Ku. Dhala, 3. P.N. Gurjar. 400m hurdles: 1. Upendra Singh 1:00.7s, 2. A. Shabeer, 3. Sateshwar Prasad. 3,000m steeple chase: 1. Rakesh Nishad 10:57.1s, 2. Sunil Yadav, 3. Krishna Pada Mazumdar. Javelin: 1. Upendra Singh 48.64m, 2. K.B. Thakor, 3. Sunil Joseph. Triple jump: 1. V. Ashokkumar 13.02m, 2. Sunil Joseph, 3. Ra. Vindara Desmukh. Decathlon: 1. Upendra Singh 5197 pts, 2. B.S. Viswanatha, 3. Tejvir Singh. 4x100m relay: 1. Kerala 43.5s, 2. Karnataka, 3. Punjab.

Women: 100m: K. Meenakumari 13.2s, 2. G. Umadevi, 3. Grace B. Pyngrope. High jump: 1. Geetanjalai Jena 1.16m, 2. Phool Wati, 3. P. Sasikala. Shot put: 1. Amita Sethi 8.44m, 2. Sunitha Gupta, 3. Usha Sanadya. 4x100m relay: 1. AP 1:02.8s, 2. North East, 3. Tamil Nadu.

Individual champions: Men: Upendar Singh (Rajasthan) 25pts; Women: Geethanjali Jena (Orissa) 21pts. — Sports Correspondent