Date:09/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/09/stories/2008090957362000.htm

Sport - Weightlifting

Deenadayalan sets new marks

CHENNAI: S. Deenadayalan of Coimbatore accounted for two of the three new meet marks that were set in the Tamil Nadu State shooting championship (shot gun) at the Almadi range near here on Sunday.

Deenadayalan set a record in the veterans’ section in the double trap event, collecting 29 points to erase the previous best of 22 by Madurai M. Sugumaran in 2006. Deenadayalan’s next record came in the skeet event where his score of 26 improved upon the 18 set by Sugumaran in 2006.

The results:

Double trap: Men: 1. B. Ashok (Cbe) 34, 2. A.S. Logeswaran (Cbe) 32, 3. K. Rajasekar (Chen) 32; Junior Men: 1. C. Ganesh Prabu (Mdu), 2. S. Naveen Kumar (Cbe) 12; Women: 1. F. Asiya Khilji (Chen) 19, 2. Malathy David 18, 3. Radha Niranjani (Chen) 14; Junior Women: F. Asiya Khilji (Chen) 19 (NMR; OR 13, Radha Niranjini Devi 2004), 2. Radha Niranjani (Chen) 14 (betters previous record); Veterans’: 1. S. Deenadayalan (Cbe) 29 (NMR; OR 22, M. Sugumaran 2006), 2. K. Umapathy (Chen) 24 (betters previous record), 3. K. Sukumaran (Mdu) 21.

Skeet: Men: 1. Raja R. Rajagopal Tondaiman (Chen) 42, 2. K. Rajasekhar (Chen) 38, 3. B. Ashok (34); Junior Men: 1. S. Naveen Kumar (Cbe) 20; Women: 1 Radha Niranjani (Chen) 6; Veterans’: 1. S. Deenadayalan (Cbe) 26 (NMR; OR 18, M. Sugumaran 2006), 2. J. Sukumaran (Mdu) 16, 3. N. Babuji (Cbe) 6. — Special Correspondent