Aparna finishes with five gold

Monday, December 08 1997

Aparna finishes with five gold

Dharmendra Jore

CHANDRAPUR, Dec 7: Pune girl Aparna Badkar added three more gold medals today, taking her final tally to five on the concluding day of the two-day State Senior Athletics meet here. In the process, she shattered her personal mark in triple jump registering 11.49 metres, which is also a new state record. Aparna's two other gold medals came in the 400m hurdles and high jump.

Mumbai City won the men's team championship, while Pune pipped Sangli for the team championship title in the women's category.

State Team Announced: Adil Sumariwala, secretary of Maharashtra Amateur Athletics Association, announced the state squad. Vijay Sonawane of Nagpur will lead the women's team in the Open Athletics Nationals slated to begin at Gandhinagar from December 10.

Team Men's: Dasharath Tigga, Sachin Palande, Linesh Pathak, Naveen Fernandes, Siddharth Basak, Enbanathan, Suresh Ghasle, Rajesh Musle (captain). Women's: Vijaya Sonawane (captain), Shelji Joseph, Aparna Badkar, Vardha Venkatratna, Kalpana More, Shilpa Mankni, Rashmi Fating, M A Manli.

RESULTS

MEN: 800m: 1 Dayanand Shetty (Mumbai City, 2:00.06s), 2 Dutta Sarade (Pune), 3 Jitendra Jadhav (Sangli); 5,000m: 1 Sachin Palande (Mumbai City, 15:56.02s), 2 Bharat Mandale (Sangli), 3 Deshwar Singh (Ahmednagar); 400m hurdles: 1 Jai Tembhare (Yavatmal, 58.01s), 2 Sumeet Gupta (Pune), 3 Rishi Hichami (Bhandara); Long jump: 1 Raju Verghese (Mumbai City, 6.65m), 2 Satish Jadhav (Pune), 3 Shrikant Raut (Yavatmal); 200m: 1 Virendra Manjrekar (Mumbai City, 22.05s), 2 Yohan Wadia (Mumbai City), 3 Suresh Ghasle (Bhandara); Shot put: 1 Mahesh Shinde (Thane, 14.70m), 2 Lokesh Mandone, 3 Arun Uchil (both Mumbai City); Pole vault: 1 Sudhakar Anchekar (Sindhu Durg, 3.40m), 2 Vijay Ghatge (Thane), 3 Pramod Kshatriya (Sangli); Javelin throw: 1 Kailash Bariya (Mumbai City, 47.08m), 2 Pranav Kaushik (Yavatmal), 3 Pawan Kumar Chaudhary (Chandrapur); 4X100m relay: 1 Mumbai City (44.09s), 2 Thane (46.01s), 3 Pune; 4X400m relay: 1 Mumbai City (3:35.00s), 2 Pune, 3 Kolhapur.WOMEN: 800m: 1 Kalpana More (Chandrapur, 2:20.09s), 2 Shilpa Mankani (Pune), 3 Rashmi Fating (Nagpur); 5,000m: 1 Vijaya Sonawane (Nagpur, 17:59.01s), 2 Shailji Joseph (Mumbai City), 3 Rashmi Fating (Nagpur); Triple jump: 1 Aparna Badkar (Pune, 11.49m - new state record), 2 Madhavi Tilak (Pune), 3 Rohini Mohite (Sangli); Discus throw: 1 Priti Gore (Sangli, 32.00m), 2 S Suresh (Mumbai City), 3 Shilpa Bhalekar (Solapur); Hammer throw: 1 Vardha Venkatratba (Pune, 32.40m), 2 Shilpa Bhalekar (Solapur), 3 Snehal Pawar (Solapur); 400m hurdles: 1 Aparna Badkar (Pune, 1:07.05s), 2 Vijaya More (Nagpur), 3 Rohini Mohite (Sangli); Heptathlon: 1 Reena Sanandam (Sangli, 2725 points), 2 Megha Patkar (Thane), 3 Kunda Gawande (Sangli); 200m: 1 Lakshmi Salunke (Mumbai City, 27.01s), 2 Smita Pawar (Nagpur), 3 Swati Mali (Sangli); 4X400m relay: 1 Nagpur (4:19.08s), 2 Mumbai City, 3 Sangli; High jump: 1 Aparna Badkar (Pune, 1.30m), 2 Lakshmi Patil (Jalgaon).