Benjamin, Manoop and Akhila rewrite data

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

Maharaja’s V.S. Bhavika (left), the championship’s quickest lady, completed with a dash double taking the 200m too. Photograph: 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 document 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 School, bettered his private greatest whereas taking the gold, his second right here after his 5000m victory on Monday.

“I used to be certain I’d break the document,” stated Benjamin who was nearly all on his personal after the opening lap and received by a giant 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 received the quartermile on Monday, rewrote the 400m hurdles document for his second gold whereas Alphonsa’s Akhila Raju, who trains at Kasargod’s KC Throws Academy, broke the 16-year-old meet girls’s discus throw document by greater than six metres!

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

St. Berchmans School received the lads’s crew 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 Okay. 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 Okay. Nair (Alphonsa) 1:01.20s. 3000m steeple chase: Okay.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).

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

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