Federation Cup - day 3: Karnataka wins gold, silver in high jump, maintains lead

Bellevision Media Network

 

Mangaluru, 03 May 2015: The third day of the 19th Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championship on Sunday May 3 saw Karnataka clinch both gold and silver medals in men’s high jump.

 

At the end of the third day, Karnataka continued to maintain the lead, with a score of 84.5, with Army coming second with a score of 68.5 and Kerala third (60).

 

Harshith S won the gold with a jump of 2.13 m and Supreeth Raj bagged the silver with a leap of 2.09 m. Both represented Karnataka. Supreeth shared the silver with Srineesh C of Army. But none of them qualified for the Asian Athletics Championship to be held in China.

 

 

In men’s long jump, Ankit Sharma of Haryana clinched the gold with a jump of 7.99 m which qualified him for the Asian Athletics. Yugant Singh of Uttar Pradesh won the silver (7.53 m) and M Arshad of AIR won the bronze (7.38 m)

 

Speaking to media, Ankit said, "This is my second personal best. I am happy but the humidity affected my performance. I will do better next time."

 

In the men’s hammer throw, Niraj Kumar of Navy clinched the gold with a distance of 64.53 m, but did not qualify for the Asian Athletics. M Shankar of Tamil Nadu won the silver (56.83 m) and Abhishek Yadav of Uttarakhand, the bronze (49.81 m). The event saw poor response from athletes with just three in contention.

 

"The event has been organized very well, but I am sad that I did not qualify for the Asian Athletics. There was not enough competition to push me. My personal best is 68.08 m and I feel if there was more competitiveness, I would have done better."

 

Other results:

Women’s 3000 m steeplechase

Pariti Lamba - Haryana - 10:48:86
Nandini Gupta - Uttar Pradesh - 10:58:76
S Padmavathy - Tamil Nadu - 11:30:50

Men’s 3000 m steeplechase

Jaiveer Singh - Army - 8:48:56
Naveen Kumar - Army - 8:49:38
Sachin Bajirao - Maharashtra - 8:58:13

Men’s pole vault

J Preeth - Tamil Nadu - 4.90 m
P Balakrishna - Karnataka - 4.80 m
Krishna Prasath - Tata Motors - 4.80 m

Women’s triple jump

Sheena N V - Kerala - 12.92 m
Joyline M Lobo - Karnataka - 12.62 m
Shilpa Chacko - Kerala - 12.45 m

Men’s 20 km walk

Maniram Patel - Gujarat - 1:29:51
Kuldeep - Tata - 1:31:04
Joshi Sagar - Navy - 1:21:13

Sports minister Abhaychandra Jain, MLA Mohiuddin Bava, MLA Shakuntala Shetty, police commissioner S Murugan, Asha Thimmappa Gowda, Srividya and others presented medals to winners of various events.