Shakti Singh's latest national record of 19.38 metres in this event, created at the Mumbai Circuit Meet, did not last even a fortnight as Bahadur Singh dwarfed that with a throw of 19.59 metres. Shakti Singh too put all his might behind the iron ball with a throw of 19.47 metres, his best so far. The healthy competition among these two brought out the best in them.

Apart these two national records, another one was created in the 5000 metres for women. Sunita Rani of Railways completed the distance in 16:09.68 seconds to improve her national mark of 16:21.59, created in Sicily in 1997. However, her timing was way below the Amateur Athletics Federation of India's target of 15:55.10 seconds.

Lekha Thomas of LIC equalled her triple jumpnational record of 13.26 metres. However, that was also below the AAFI target of 13.50 metres.

The jubilations of the national records were somewhat dampened by the existing controversy in the 100 metres for men. The results had been withheld yesterday after Food corporation of India and Railways had protested over a false start.

After watching the video tapes today and with the starter admitting that he might have made a mistake yesterday, a re-run was ordered at 4pm today. More drama was in store when, apart from FCI's Amit Khanna and Railways' Anand Menezes, none of the sprinters turned up. Later, LIC's R.Kishan, who had finished third in the earlier race, too took his position. The Services' team has lodged a counter-protest against the decision to re-run the race as their sprinter Anil Kumar had won yesterday. They have also informed in writing that Anil Kumar will not compete.

Lalit Bhanot, the AAFI secretary general said that as the decision for the re-run was taken very late, most of thesprinters might not be aware of it. They will now be informed in writing and the race will be held tomorrow.

Sanjay Rai of Railways created a new meet record in the long jump for men clearing a distance of 7.87 metres. Bobby Aloysius of Police too rewrote the meet record in the high jump for women with a jump of 1.81 metres.

Results

Men's: 400m: 1. Paramjit Singh (Pol) 45.70s NMR (Previous: 45.73 by Milkha Singh in 1960); 2. Jata Shankar (Pol) 46.40s; 3. Rama Chandran (TN) 46.63s. 5000m: 1. Gulab Chand (Rlys) 14:20.33s; 2. Bahadur Prasad (Rlys) 14:20.41s; 3. N. Gojen Singh (Pol) 14:33.04s. 110m hurdles: 1. PT Yesudas (Rlys) 14.44s; 2 Jagjit Singh (Pol) 14.54s; 3. Harish Kushalappa (Kar) 14.64s. Long jump: 1. Sanjay Rai (Rlys) 7.87m; 2. Amit Kumar Saha (Rlys) 7.69m; 3. VS Vinod (Pol) 7.30m. Shot put: 1. Bahadur Singh (Pol) 19.59m (Previous: 1938 by Shakti Singh in 1998); 2. Shakti Singh (Rlys) 19.47m; 3. Jaiveer Singh (Ser) 17.73m.

Women's: 400m: 1. JyotirmoySikdar (Rlys) 52.69s; 2. Rosa Kutty (Rlys) 52.86s; 3. KM Beenamol (AAFI) 53.74s. 5000m: 1. Sunita Rani (Rlys) 16:09.68s; 2 Pushpa Devi (Pol) 17:26.74s; 3. Madhuri Gurmule (Mah) 17:30.40s. 100m hurdles: 1. Debi Bose (Rlys) 13.97s; 2. Anuradha Biswal (Ori) 14.13s; 3. Poonam Beliappa (Kar) 14.40s. High jump: 1. Bobby Aloysius (TN) 1.81m; 2. Sukhdeep Kaur (Pol) 1.65m; 3. Jayanthi (TN) 1.65m. Triple jump: 1. Lekha Thomas (LIC) 13.26m; 2. Amey Philip (TN) 12.93m; 3. Anusuya Roy (TN) 12.78m. Javelin: 1. Gurmeet Kaur (LIC) 54.98m; 2. Hemlata (Rlys) 45.38m; 3. Annnamma M.P.(Pol) 43.30. 10km walk: 1. Pramjit Kaur (Rlys) 52:45.5s; 2. Sulochana Banik (Rlys) 56:37.2s; 3. Anju Kumari Sharma (WB) 57:30.6.