AFI National Junior Athletics Championships: Jwngsar Basumatary wins lone medal for Assam, Haryana bag best team award

Sports Reporter

GUWAHATI: Haryana bagged best team award in the 37th AFI National Junior Athletics Championships which concluded at the SAI Regional Centre Complex here today. Haryana altogether collected 478 points which was enough to lift the title. Earlier in the day Jwngsar Basumatary , participated in mens' triple jump, gave the only medal to Assam by winning bronze (15.57m).

Earlier, Haryana's Sanyam shone in U20 men's Shot Put. His winning effort of 19.10m on his opening try also enabled him to emerge the best male athlete in his age group. The others who won the best athlete awards were Shaili Singh (Uttar Pradesh) in U20 women, Atul (Haryana) and Unnathi Aiyyappa (Karnataka) in U18 men and women, Ommkar Prasad Nanda (Odisha) and Rezoana Mallick Heena (West Bengal) in U16 boys and girls and Nishchay (Haryana) and Tanu Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh) in the U14 boys and girls.

On the final day of the Championships which saw 39 finals across the four age groups, as many as six meet records were broken. However, Haryana's U16 High Jumper Pooja had the distinction of being the only one to claim a National Record. She cleared 1.76m to improve on the 1.73m mark set by Pavana Nagaraj at the Sarusajai Stadium here last year.

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