Athletics championship: Nishant, Priyanka emerge as fastest runner

Kanpur: Nishant Kumar of Bijnor and Priyanka Sikarwal of UPPSCB won the title of fastest runner of 31st UP State Open Athletics Championship which concluded here at Netaji Subhash Regional Centre Sports Authority of India (SAI) Sarojini Nagar Lucknow and Air Force station Hindon Ghaziabad on June 8.
On the basis of performance of this meet, UP team for 63rd National Inter-State Seniors Athletics championship to be held at Panchkula (Haryana) from June 27 to June 30 and for National Open Athletics championship-2024 to be held in Bangalore from August 30 to September 2 will be selected, said Devesh Dubey, secretary UPAA.
The meet was inaugurated by Laxmi Kant Shukla and medals were given by Rachana Govil executive director SAI.
Prince Kumar of UPPSCB (1500 mts & 5000 mts) ,Priyanka Sikarwar of UPPSCB ( 100 mtrs & 200 mtrs), Priyanka Saroj of Varanasi ( 100 and 400 metres hurdle ) stole the show as each of them won two events.
The results of the events are –
Men
100m: Nishant Kumar (Bijnor),Aditya Kumar (Meerut),Ravi Rai (Gorakhpur) 200m – Lakshya (Baghpat),Jay Shiv (Aligarh),Ali Ahmad (Bijnor) 400m.:Pankaj (UPP SCB), Aniket Kumar (Saharanpur) , Shivang Mishra (UPP SCB) 800m.:Himanshu Bharan (Amroha), Vijay (Unnao), Yuraj (Varanasi) 1500m.: Prince Kumar (UPP SCB),Mukul Saini (Muzaffarnagar),Gaurav (G.B.Nagar).5000m.: “I” – Prince Kumar (UPP SCB), Rinku Singh (Agra),Balram (UPP SCB)
High Jump: “I” – Sandeep Kumar (UPP SCB) “II” – Bijender (UPP SCB) “III” – Abhishek (Hapur)
Pole Vault: “I” – Pawan Yadav (Prayagraj) “II” – Neeraj Kumar (Prayagraj) “III” – Alok Singh (UPP SCB)
Long Jump: Imran (Chandauli),Shailendra (Etawah) ,Dinesh Choudhary (Chandauli). Triple Jump: “I” – Himansha Yadav (UPP SCB, Sachin Gujar (UPP SCB), Shaheer Rizvee (Meerut). Shot Put: Aryan Tyagi (Meerut),Abhishek Singh (UPP SCB),Akash Grewal (UPP SCB) Discus Throw: Ashish Kumar (UPP SCB) ,Anurag Patel (UPP SCB), Rahul Singh (Meerut) Hammer Throw: Mohd. Shahban (Prayagraj) “II”–,Sachin Yadav (Baghpat),–Mohd.Nadeem (SiddharthaNagar)
Women
100m.: Priyanka Sikarwar (UPP SCB),Jyoti Upadhyay (Varanasi),Anjali Pal (Varanasi) 200m.: Priyanka Sikarwar (UPP SCB),Sabhya Patel (Chandauli),eena (UPP SCB)400m.: Kajal (Saharanpur),Sabhya Patel (Chandauli),Vanshika (Hapur)800m.: “I” - Rakhi Singh (Meerut),Tanvi Malik (Meerut),Sadhana Chaudhary (Bulandshahr) 1500m.:Vineeta Gurjar, (Moradabad),Anjali (Hapur),Simran Sharma (Saharanpur) 5000m.: Rebi Pal (Varanasi) “II” – Mamta Pal (UPP SCB), Priya Patel (Varanasi)
High Jump:Manshi (Meerut), Khyati Mathur (Meerut),Shanu (Amroha) Pole Vault: Archana (Raebareli) “II” – Rashmi (UPP SCB) “III” – * ( * )
Long Jump: “I” – Shivani Dubey (UPP SCB) “II” – Himanshi Chaudhary (Sambhal) “III – Anjali Pal (Varanasi) Triple Jump: onam (Amroha) ,Pooja Yadav (Chandauli),Shalini Dhaliyan (MuzaffarNagar) Shot Put: Vidhi (Meerut), Bhavana Upadhyay (Prayagraj),I” – Antima Mishra (Prayagraj) Discus Throw: Shivani (Meerut), Antima Mishra (Prayagraj),Shivi Chaudhary (Amroha) Hammer Throw: Shruti Singh (Prayagraj),Nandini (Baghpat),– Aaisha Patel (Prayagraj) Javelin Throw:Vishakha Panwar (Ghaziabad),Archana Yadav (Bhadohi) ,Varsha Verma (Varanasi)