Published Mon, May 31 10 09:51 PM
Tapan Mohanta Pune, May 31 (PTI) Fresh from their domination in the National Open, Railways today bagged maximum honours in the Indian Grand Prix-I, prelude to the first leg of the Asian GP, at Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex at Balewadi here. Manikananda Raj of Jharkhand and H M Jyothi of Karnataka won the men''s and women''s 200m race respectively, even as there was no new record at the meet. Manikananda won with a timing of 21.7 sec, while Jyothi had a 24.6 sec effort. Railways athletes made a clean sweep in the men''s pole vault which was won by Gajanan Upadhyay with an effort of 4.90m, followed by Vadivel and Bineesh Jacob for the second and third places. Men''s 400m hurdles also saw a domination by the Railways who had the top two finishers in Joseph Abraham (50.77s) and Avin A Thomas (51.38s) respectively. In men''s discus throw, Vikas Poonia (51.72m) won the top place while his teammate Sunil Kumar finished third with a timing of 49.68m. Services'' Vipender Singh settled for the second spot with a throw of 50.43m. There was no Kavita Raut in women''s 5000m, but still hosts Maharashtra made a clean sweep claiming the top three places. Manisha Salenkh won with a timing of 18:34.5 min, while Reshma Patil (21:13.1) and Pornima Shinde (28:12.1) finished second and third respectively. A total of seven events in the men''s section and four in women''s took place under floodlights with rain interrupting the proceedings briefly. 83 men and 38 women athletes took part in the meet.
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