Mon, Oct 11 10 09:37 PM
New Delhi, Oct 11 (PTI) India and Kenya today set records in the Commonwealth Games athletics competition for different reasons. The host country made an unprecedented clean sweep of the women''s discus throw with Krishna Pooniya becoming the first gold medallist from the distaff side for India. India swept the event with Harwant Kaur and national record holder Seema Antil winning the silver and bronze, respectively, behind Pooniya who won with her best effort of 61.51m. It was the country''s second athletics gold in Games history after ''Flying Sikh'' Milkha Singh''s 440 yard race title in the 1958 edition of the Games in Cardiff, Wales. Harwant came up with an effort of 60.61m, a tad below her season''s best of 60.66m, while national record holder Seema Antil threw the discus to a distance of 58.46m. The trio''s sweep gave India their seventh medal in track and field events, far above their previous best of two medals, each won in the last two Games. Kenya also set a record, but in the number of gold medals won in athletics when Nancy Langat won the women''s 800m. This was Kenya''s eighth gold medal in Delhi, breaking the African nation''s previous best haul of of seven gold medals in 1974, 1978, 1994 and 1998. Langat also became the first Kenyan woman to win two golds in the same Games, having captured the 1500m title earlier, making her the second woman to claim the middle distance double at the same Games after Kirsty Wade of Wales in 1986.
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