Indian Athletics – News – Dileep shattered national decathlon record / Ram. Murali Krishnan /

Lucknow, 30 October 2012 – K. Dileep Kumar, representing Andhra Pradesh, became the first Indian junior to tabulate 7000 points in decathlon in the ongoing Junior Nationals at Guru Gobind Singh Sports College grounds here.  Dileep, training in the Army Sports Institute at Pune, finished in the all-round competition tallying 7020 points which erased the old mark of 6866 pts held by Brameshwar Nath of Bihar for the last twelve years.  

The penultimate day’s competition witnessed six new national records.  First being U.P. girl Nisha Yadav’s 54.39m in youth girls’ hammer throw in the morning.  The previous record-holder, Bhawana from Haryana, finished third today while Himachal Pradesh’s Deepa Kumari claimed the silver.

The 2000m steeplechase for girls have been introduced very recently and Kerala girl C.L. Aswathi won the junior women’s event in 7:33.87 while local girl Parul Chaudhary showed her experience to win the event in youth division in a much improved 7:06.49.

Tamil Nadu sprinter M.S. Arun takes the 200m dash for boys under-16 grade in a noteworthy 22.30 secs while Dutee Chand claimed the top honours in youth girls with a time of 24.31 secs after established herself the absolute owner of the national with her 24.28s effort in the heats earlier.

In between the Tamil Nadu boys team takes the 1000m sprint medley relay in u-16 division with a new national mark of 1:58.99.

Kerala had a profitable day today with their athletes secured six gold medals as they regain the lead in championship race with 409 points against arch rivals Haryana (345 pts).

/ Ram. Murali Krishnan /

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