Benjamin, Manoop and Akhila rewrite information

SB Faculty’s Benjamin Babu on his solution to the 3000m steeple chase report on the MG College athletics championships in Pala on Tuesday. Picture: Stan Rayan
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Alphonsa’s Akhila Raju bettered the ladies’s discus throw report by greater than six metres. Picture: Stan Rayan
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Stan Rayan

Maharaja’s V.S. Bhavika (left), the championship’s quickest girl, completed with a dash double taking the 200m too. Picture: Stan Rayan
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Idukki’s Benjamin Babu, a distance runner who developed a style for the 3000m steeple chase three years in the past, broke the occasion’s meet report within the 42^nd Mahatma Gandhi College athletics championship on the Municipal Stadium right here on Tuesday.

Benjamin, from the hilly Pushpakandam close to the Tamil Nadu border and representing Changanassery’s St. Berchmans Faculty, bettered his private finest whereas taking the gold, his second right here after his 5000m victory on Monday.

“I used to be certain I’d break the report,” mentioned Benjamin who was just about all on his personal after the opening lap and gained by an enormous margin.

In the meantime Mar Athanasius V.M. Abhirami, who had been near 6m three years in the past, took the ladies’s lengthy leap title with 5.77m. Janice Treesa Reji, the State junior champion with 5.85m in October however recovering from a foot harm now, might solely end fourth with 5.46m.

St. Dominic’s M. Manoop, who had gained the quartermile on Monday, rewrote the 400m hurdles report for his second gold whereas Alphonsa’s Akhila Raju, who trains at Kasargod’s KC Throws Academy, broke the 16-year-old meet ladies’s discus throw report by greater than six metres!

And Maharaja’s V.S. Bhavika, the championship’s quickest girl, completed with a double taking the 200m title.

St. Berchmans Faculty gained the boys’s workforce title after some 20 years, beating conventional powerhouse Mar Athanasius, whereas Alphonsa regained the ladies’s title.

The outcomes (winners solely):

Males: 200m: Halvi S. Vij (Mar Athanasius) 21.60s. 800m: Anto Antony (St. Dominic’s) 1:51.40s. 10,000m: R.S. Manoj (Mar Athanasius) 32:14.30s. 110m hurdles: C.B. Shintomon (St. Dominic’s) 14.43s. 400m hurdles: M. Manoop (St. Dominic’s) 51.10s MR, OR 51.49.

3000m steeple chase: Benjamin Babu (St. Berchmans) 9:22.60s MR, OR 9:24.00. Triple leap: V.A. Rahenth (St. Berchmans) 15.07m.

Hammer throw: Athul Ok. Pratheep (St. Joseph’s Academy, Moolamattom) 41.33m. Decathlon: Juvan Reji (St. Berchmans) 5873 pts.

4x100m relay: Mar Athanasius, Kothamangalam (42.00s). 4x400m relay: St. Dominic’s, Kanjirappally (3:17.60s).

Ladies: 200m: V.S. Bhavika (Maharaja’s) 24.30s. 800m: Shivanki (Alphonsa) 2:21.00s. 10,000m: N. Pournami (Mar Athanasius) 38:01.80s. 400m hurdles: Aparna Ok. Nair (Alphonsa) 1:01.20s. 3000m steeple chase: Ok.P. Sanika (Mar Athanasius) 11:54.10s. Lengthy leap: V.M. Abhirami (Mar Athanasius) 5.77m. Excessive leap: A. Anupriya (Mar Athanasius) 1.59m. Triple leap: Aleena T. Saji (Assumption) 12.82m. Pole vault: Chinchumol Mathew (Alphonsa) & S. Arathy (Assumption) each 3.05m. Javelin throw: Thaleetha Kummi Sunil (Assumption) 37.38m. Discus throw: Akhila Raju (Alphonsa) 47.85m MR, OR 41.11m. Heptathlon: Mariya Thomas (Alphonsa) 4095 pts. 4x100m relay: Assumption (47.70s). 4x400m relay: Alphonsa (3:54.30s).

Group championships: Males: 1. St. Berchmans, Chgy 155.5 pts, 2. Mar Athanasius, Kothamangalam 132.

Ladies: 1. Alphonsa, Pala 193 pts, 2. Assumption, Chgy 140.