HARYANA STATE ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION

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PRESS RELEASE

Kind Attention: Sports Desk

Chandigarh: 28 August : Haryana State Junior Athletics Teams brought laurel by winning the sixth  consecutive year overall Championship Trophy, Men Championship Trophy and women Championship trophy of the 22 North Zone Junior Athletics Championship held at Amritsar at Gurunanak Dev University athletics ground from 21^st to 24^th August, 2010. Haryana State Athletics teams won total of 100 medals including 47 gold, 31 silver and 22 bronze medals. Boys teams  won 28 gold 18 silver and 15 bronze medals while girls teams grabbed 19 gold 13 silver and 7 bronze medals according to Sh. H S Bhadu Secretary HSAA.

          Sh. Bhadu informed that our athletes created four new National Records, Abhishek of boys 18 hurl the Javelin at 66.78m and created new National Meet Record by breaking old record of Kumar patil of UP ( 63.68 m, 2003) after 7 years,  maruti boys of 16 (Parveen, Arjun khokhar, Atul and Sumit Malik) created new record in 1000m Medlay sprint with new record time of 2:00.80s by breaking  old record of 2:03.85s (Delhi team, 2007), Atul  and Arjun Khokhar of 16 clicked with double, before 1000m medlay sprint Atul finished 200m in 22.80s and beat the old record of Manoj of Delhi 23.31s, 2008 while Arjun Khokhar created new record in 400m with .5 seconds by beating the Shiv kumar of Haryana’s record of 50.60s with new record time of 50.55s,our new talent of boys 14 Sarang created new record with a long jump of 1.66m by beating the old record of Ankit Bora, Uttrakhand 1.60m, 2008.

          Sh. Abhey Singh Chautala,MLA Life president, Sh. Nafe Singh Rathi, president, Sh. Rajender Malik, Vice President, Sh. Rajkumar Mittan, Senior Joint Secretary  and Sh. H S Bhadu congratulated the athletes, coaches  and Managers for their glorious victory and wished them all the success for upcoming meet.

Sh. Bhadu further informed that following 76 athletes of Haryana has been selected to participate in the 22^nd National Interzonal Junior Athletics Championship to be held at Guntur (AP) from 3-5 Septmeber, 2010:

Boys 20: Johny Makkar(100m), Pardeep(400m), Sonu(800m), Gurpreet Singh(110m hurdles), Deepak(400m hurdle), Kuldeep Singh(long jump), Jitender(pole vault), Karan Singh & Akash Antil(discus), Amit Gill(hammer), Amit & Bijender Panghal (4X400m relay); Ashish Rohilla(10000m walk), Ravinder & Manjeet Kumar(decathlon);

Boys 18: Bharathari(100m), Sanjeev (200m), Sandeep (400m), Mandeep(800m), Vikash Malik(1500m), Parveen Jangra(400m hurdle), Sikender Singh(high jump), Sandeep (triple jump), Kundan(pole vault), Surender Singh(shotput), Vikas(discus), Abhishek & Vijay(javelin), Sachin & Sanjeev (medlay relay), Dharmender(Octathlon);

Boys 16:Atul (200m), Arjun Khokhar (400m), Parmesh(800m), Rahul Chhikkara(1500m), Ankit Malik(3000m), Rahul (high jump), Sachin (discus), Parminder Kumar (javelin), Pawan Kumar (5000m walk), Parveen Kumar & Sumit Malik( medlay), Vijender (Pentathlon);

Boys 14: Mandeep Singh(long jump), Sarang (high jump), Jaspreet (shotput), Manoj(triathlon);

Girls 20: Anju (400m), Ritu(800m), Sunita & Neeraj (high jump), Santosh Kumari (discus), Babita, Sujata Rani (4X400m relay), Mamta (10000m walk);

Girls 18: Ashwani (200m), Suman Devi (400m), Komal Chaudhary(1500m), Sonu (high jump), Pooja Jangra(long jump), Sandeep Kumari (Shotput), Poonam Devi (hammer throw), Komaldeep (Javelin), Jyoti (medlay), Jyoti Ahlawat(5000m walk), Seema Sheoran(heptathlon);

Girls 16: Nirmla& Preeti Lamba(1500m), Jyoti & Jyoti (long jump), Renu (shotput), Manisha(discus), Kumari Sharmila (javelin), Kavita (Pentathlon);

Girls 14: Ritu (long jump), Suman(high jump) & Preeti Rani (shotput).

Office Secretary, HSAA