Babitha, Satyam shine
Athletes from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh did well at the 38th National Masters Athletics Championship being held at the Balayogi Stadium in Hyderabad
Babitha Jaquelin Xavier and M. Satyam did Telangana proud at the 38th National Masters Athletics Championship being held at the Balayogi Stadium in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
Babitha won the women’s 800 metres race in the 45+ age group category while Satyam emerged winner in the men’s 80+ 5 kilometres walk event.
Babitha clocked two minutes 55.1 secs to leave Regina Lucinda Monica Dourado of Goa (03:13.1 secs) and Jyotiprava Dutta Khanikar of Assam (03:22.1 secs) behind.
Meanwhile, Satyam finished the 5 kilometre distance in 37 minutes 04.5 seconds to take the first place. Dominic A.C. of Kerala (39:09.8 secs) and B. N. Mehta of Punjab (39:50.0 secs) were second and third respectively.
Andhra Pradesh athletes too did well. V. Sri Ramulu won the men’s 90+ 5km walk while M. Ananda Babu took the top place in the 80 metres hurdles ahead of A Posalan of Tamil Nadu and V. K. Singh of Uttar Pradesh in the men’s 70+ category. T. Gopi stood second in the men’s 35+ 800 metres behind Nanda Saha of West Bengal, who won the race with a time of 02:08.5 secs.
THE RESULTS Women’s 35+ 100 metres hurdles: 1. Baljeet Kaur (Haryana) 00:00:21.0 secs, 2. Renu Katariya (Delhi) 00:00:22.7 secs, 3. Tanima Bhattacharya (West Bengal) 00:00:24.4 secs. Men’s 50+ 100m hurdles: 1. Lokesha (Karnataka) 00:00:17.0 secs, 2. V. Sethuraman (Tamil Nadu) 00:00:18.9 secs, 3. Rajender Singh (Delhi) 00:00:19.2 secs. Men’s 35+ 110m hurdles: 1. C. Yuvaraj (Tamil Nadu) 00:00:16.2 secs, 2. Varghese Silvester (Delhi) 00:00:17.4 secs, 3. C. T. Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu) 00:00:17.6 secs. Women’s 60+ 5km walk: 1. Shankutla Devi (Haryana) 00:36:58.5 secs, 2. Chander Lata (Delhi) 00:38:47.3 secs, 3. Safiya C. K (Kerala) 00:41:55.0 secs. Men’s 60+ 5km walk: 1. Aswini Kumar Panja (West Bengal) 00:31:14.3 secs, 2. Kanakasababathy (Tamil Nadu) 00:33:23.3 secs, 3. Narayanan Nair (Kerala) 00:33:25.3 secs. Women’s 65+ 5km walk: 1. Vasanthi K (Kerala) 00:37:22.3 secs, 2. Pujamma P (Karnataka) 00:38:12.3 secs, 3. Bina Borkotoky (Assam) 00:38:25.1 secs. Men’s 65+ 5km walk: 1. Jai Singh Malik (Haryana) 00:32:57.4 secs, 2. Manjunatha K (Karnataka) 00:33:52.2 secs, 3. Narayan Mishra (Orissa) 00:34:12.3 secs. Women’s 70+ 5km walk: 1. Putul Saikia (Assam) 00:38:06.7 secs, 2. Chinmoyee Kanungo (West Bengal) 00:38:12.1 secs, 3. Mangi Devi L (Manipur) 00:38:54.6 secs. Men’s 70+ 5km walk: 1. Ram Pratap Munda (Jharkhand) 00:36:24.4 secs, 2. Megharaj SKM (Karnataka) 00:37:10.9 secs, 3. Samuel T G (Kerala) 00:37:20.3 secs. Women’s 75+ 5km walk: 1. Bhanumatiben Patel K (Gujarat) 00:46:14.8 secs. Men’s 75+ 5km walk: 1. Madan Lal Chitkara (Punjab) 00:35:14.7 secs, 2. G. M. Karunakaran (Tamil Nadu) 00:36:13.2 secs, 3. Ram Swarup (Delhi) 00:36:23.5 secs. Men’s 80+ 5km walk: 1. M. Satyam (Telangana) 00:37:04.5 secs, 2. Dominic A C (Kerala) 00:39:09.8 secs, 3. B. N. Mehta (Punjab) 00:39:50.0 secs. Men’s 85+ 5km walk: 1. Amrik Singh Saini (Punjab) 00:42:58.4 secs, 2. Uday Singh Brahma (Assam) 00:43:27.2 secs, 3. Balaram Patra (Orissa) 00:48:25.5 secs. Men’s 90+ 5km walk: 1 Sri Ramulu V (Andhra Pradesh) 00:43:32.9 secs. Women’s 50+ 80m hurdles: 1 Kugalur Palanisami Shanthi. (Tamil Nadu) 00:00:17.8 secs, 2 Jyothi U Shetty (Karnataka) 00:00:18.2 secs, 3 Mareena A. N (Kerala) 00:00:18.5 secs. Women’s 55+ 80m hurdles: 1. N C Bhuvaneswari (Tamil Nadu) 00:00:20.3 secs, 2 Kiran Devi M (Manipur) 00:00:21.0 secs, 3 Rusheeda Pattanam (Kerala) 00:00:29.9 secs. Men’s 70+ 80m hurdles: 1 Ananda Babu M (Andhra Pradesh) 00:00:16.2 secs, 2 A Posalan (Tamil Nadu) 00:00:17.2 secs, 3 V. K. Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 00:00:17.4 secs. Men’s 75+ 80m hurdles: 1 Prakash Alok Das (West Bengal) 00:00:21.2 secs, 2 Dhirendra Lal Das (Assam) 00:00:22.1 secs, 3 Anil Kumthekar R (Maharashtra) 00:00:23.3 secs. Women’s 35+ 800m: 1 Jayanti Thapliyal (Delhi) 00:02:42.7 secs, 2 Vijitha V. K (Kerala) 00:03:02.9 secs, 3 Manju Reji (Kerala) 00:03:11.0 secs. Men’s 35+ 800m: 1 Nanda Saha (West Bengal) 00:02:08.5 secs, 2 Gopi T (Andhra Pradesh) 00:02:11.9 secs, 3 Madhukant Pandy (Delhi) 00:02:13.8 secs. Women’s 40+ 800m: 1 Bharati Dey (Assam) 00:02:52.1 secs, 2 Shobha Desai (Maharashtra) 00:02:53.0 secs, 3 Sunita (Delhi) 00:02:53.1 secs. Men’s 40+ 800m: 1 Venkatesh M (Karnataka) 00:02:16.3 secs, 2 Sabu Paul (Kerala) 00:02:16.5 secs, 3 Sasindran Chakkalakandi (Kerala) 00:02:18.4 secs. Women’s 45+ 800m: 1 Babitha Jaquelin Xavier (Telangana) 00:02:55.1 secs, 2 Regina Lucinda Monica Dourado (Goa) 00:03:13.1 secs, 3 Jyotiprava Dutta Khanikar (Assam) 00:03:22.1 secs. Men’s 45+ 800m: 1 Harnek Singh (Punjab) 00:02:14.9 secs, 2 Sadananda Alva (Karnataka) 00:02:15.3 secs, 3 Kalimuthu Murgan (Delhi) 00:02:17.1 secs. Women’s 50+ 800m: 1 Meena Singh (Delhi) 00:03:13.1 secs, 2 Sarada E (Kerala) 00:03:32.1 secs, 3 Kamalamma T S (Karnataka) 00:03:33.1 secs. Men’s 50+ 800m: 1 Gora Singh (Haryana) 00:02:18.8 secs, 2 Janardhanan K (Kerala) 00:02:21.3 secs, 3 Pardeep Kumar (Delhi) 00:02:23.1 secs. Women’s 55+ 800m: 1 Kanak Lata Hiloidari (Assam) 00:03:13.1 secs, 2 Davinder Kaur Tamber (Punjab) 00:03:16.1 secs, 3 Junu Saikia (Assam) 00:03:48.1 secs. Men’s 55+ 800m: 1 P. Govindaraju (Tamil Nadu) 00:02:24.1 secs, 2 Govind Kumar Rana (Uttarakhand) 00:02:30.1 secs, 3 Sadhan Gopal Mondal (West Bengal) 00:02:32.1 secs. Women’s 60+ 800m: 1 Ngambi Devi Ng (Manipur) 00:03:57.0 secs, 2 Chitra Gogoi (Assam) 00:04:01.1 secs, 3 Rajam Gopi (Kerala) 00:04:05.1 secs.
Sri Ramulu, Ananda Babu and Gopi were the other locals who impressed at the meet.