Parshant Kanhaiya breaks 33-yr-old pole vault record at National Junior Athletics Championships

Haryana’s Parshant Singh Kanhaiya not only reiterated his hunger to rise to new heights but also mental strength when he broke a 33-year-old National under-20 Pole Vault record in the 35th National Junior Athletics Championships at the Acharya Nagarjuna University campus here on Monday.

The defending champion set the new mark at 5.05m in the same venue where he set under-18 records at 4.75m two years ago. It was third-best jump by an Indian pole vaulter this year behind Siva Subramaniam (5.16m) and KG Jessan (5.10). He was pushed hard by Rakesh Gond (Maharashtra) whose clearance at 4.90m was his personal best. Yet, as someone who had no-heighted in the Federation Cup for Juniors in Tiruvannamali in end-September, he not only fearlessly went past his personal best of 4.90m achieved in the AFI Grand Prix V in Patiala on August 16 but also sailed over Vijay Pal Singh’s National under-20 mark of 5.00m set in the World Junior Athletics Championships in Athens in July 1986.

There were National records for Tamil Nadu’s PM Thabitha (girls under-18 100m Hurdles) and Haryana’s Amit (boys under-16 5000m Race Walk) on the third day of competitions.

Meet records were rewritten by Kerala’s Aparna Roy (girls under-20 100m Hurdles) , Delhi’s Chanda (Girls under-20 3000m), Haryana’s Anisha Dahiya (girls under-20 Hammer Throw) , Tejas Ashok Shirse and Delhi’s Harshita Sheraawat (girls under-18 Hammer Throw) in what was quite an eventful day.

The results (finals)

Boys under-20

110m Hurdles: 1. Abhishek Vinay Ubhe (Maharashtra) 13.84 seconds; 2. Yashwanth Kumar Laveti (Andhra Pradesh) 14.00; 3. S Veeraraghavendra (Tamil Nadu) 14.01.

5000m: 1. Sunil Dawar (Madhya Pradesh) 14:30.93; 2. Bahadur Patel (Madhya Pradesh) 14:34.71; Gurpreet (Haryana) 14:34.78.

Long Jump: 1. Lokesh L Sathyanathan (Karnataka) 7.79m (New Meet Record. Old Meet Record: 7.72m, M Sreeshankar, Manglagiri, 2017); 2. Rishabh Rishiwar (Uttar Pradesh) 7.29m; 3. Sunny Kumar (Bihar) 7.14m.

Pole Vault: 1. Parshant Singh Kanhiya (Haryana) 5.05m (New National & Meet Record. Old National Record: 5.00m, Vijay Pal Singh, Athens, 1986. Old Meet Record: 4.85, S Siva, Ranchi, 2015); 2. Rakesh Gond (Maharashtra) 4.90; 3. Shekhar Kumar Pandey (Delhi) 4.90.

High Jump: 1. Mahfurur Rahman (Bangladesh) 2.10m; 2. Rohit (Haryana) 2.06; 3. Abhay Bhatu Gurav (Maharashtra( 2.04.

Discus Throw: 1. Ikram Ali Khan (Madhya Pradesh) 53.34m; 2. Aniket (Uttarakhand) 50.62; 3. Abhay Gupta (Haryana) 50.30.

Hammer Throw: 1. Jai Chand (Rajasthan) 63.54m; 2. Alim Uddin (Uttar Pradesh) 62.39; 3. Ashu Deva (Haryana) 61.58.

4x100m relay: 1. Kerala (Anukool Joseph, Anith John, Bijith K and Abhinav C) 41.28 seconds (New Meet Record. Old: 41.37, Kerala,Chennai, 2005); 2. Tamil Nadu 42.73; 3. Maharashtra 42.92.

Girls under-20

100m Hurdles: 1. Aparna Roy (Kerala) 14.00 seconds (New Meet Record. Old: 14.09, Sapna Kumari, Mangalagiri, 2017); 2. Pratibha Kumari (Jharkhand) 14.75; 3. Rishika Rajesh Nepali (Maharashtra) 14.89.

3000m: 1. Chanda (Delhi) 9:42.71 (New Meet Record. Old; 9:44.62, Sanjivani Jadhav, Ranchi, 2015); 2. Seema (Himachal Pradesh) 9:51.20; 3. Poonam Dinkar Sonune (Maharashtra) 9:54.44.

Hammer Throw: 1. Anisha Dahiya (Haryana) 50.74m (New Meet Record. Old: 50.71, Nidhi, Ranchi, 2015); 2. Sneha Suryakant Jadhav (Maharashtra) 49.98; 3. Aishwrya (Haryana) 48.98.

4x100m relay: 1. Kerala (Sophiya Sunny, Anjali PD Dileesh, Aparna Roy and Mrudula Maria Babu) 47.18 seconds (New Meet Record. Old: 47.28, Kerala, Chennai, 2005); Karnataka 47.72; 3. Tamil Nadu 48.74.

Boys under-18

110m Hurdles: 1. Tejas Ashok Shirse (Maharashtra) 13.59 seconds (New Meet Record. Old: 13.76, Santhosh Kumar, Ranchi, 2015).

High Jump: 1. Uchchaal Kumar Roy (West Bengal) 2.08m; 2. Kaushik Rajendra Jadhav (Gujarat) 2.01; 3. Robindeep Singh (Punjab) 1.99.

10000m Race Walk: 1. Paramdeep Mor (Haryana) 43:07.24; 2. Paramjeet Bisht (Uttarakhand) 43:51.36; 3. Bajrang Prajapati (Madhya Pradesh) 44:03.31.

1000m Medley Relay: 1. Kerala (Suryajith RK, Akhil Babu, Sayooj TK and Abdul Razak CR) 1;55.96; 2. Maharashtra 1:56.50; 3. Tamil Nadu 1:56.89.

Girls under-18

100m Hurdles: 1. PM Thabitha (Tamil Nadu) 13.70 seconds (New National and Meet Record. Old: 13.76, Aparna Roy, Ranchi, 2018); 2. Agasara Nandini (Telangana) 14.47; 3. Ann Rose Tomy (Kerala) 14.48.

Javelin Throw: 1. Jyoti (Haryana) 48.01m; 2. Dhanmati Xess (Oidhsa) 40.62; 3 Amisha Devendrabhai Solanki (Gujarat) 39.92.

Hammer Throw: 1. Harshita Sehrawat (Delhi) 59.35m (New Meet Record. Old: 58.23, Poonam Jakhar, Mangalagiri, 2017); 2. Kessia Mariam Benny (Kerala) 55.27; 3. Ritu (Haryana) 51.03.

1000m Medley Relay: 1. Karnataka (Aanchal Rajesh Doddamani, V Varsha, Jyothika and Priya Habbathanahally) 2:11.44 (New Meet Record. Old: 2:11.90, Kerala, Ranchi, 2015); 2. Kerala 2;12.78; 3. Haryana 2:14.51.

Boys under-16

100m Hurdles: 1. RK Viswajith (Kerala) 13.67 seconds; 2. Ruturaj Dattatray Nale (Maharashtra) 13.76; 3 V Vishnukumar (Tamil Nadu) 13.88.

5000m Race Walk: 1. Amit (Haryana) 20:27.82 (New National & Meet Record. Old: 21:17.63, Amit, Ranchi, 2019); 2. Anshul Dhoundiyal (Uttarakhand) 21:16.71; 2. Rohit Kumar Yadav (Gujarat) 21:51.23;

1000m Medley Relay: 1. Haryana (Kapil, Dushyant, Ankit and Sanjit Balhara) 1:59.90; 2. Maharashtra 2:00.18; 3. Telangana 2:00.56.

Girls under-16

100m Hurdles: 1. Namayi Ruchita (Karnataka) 14.57; 2. Nayana Jose (Kerala) 14.70; 3. Vyasali Ganesan (Tamil Nadu) 15.00.

1000m Medley Relay: 1. Maharashtra (Sakshi Champalal Chavan, Saniya Mahendra Sawant, Diya Deepak Sumerpur and Riya Nitin Patil) 2: 16.10; 2. Kerala 2:16.81; 3. Tamil Nadu 2:20.05.

Boys under-14

Shot Put: 1. Mohammad Sahib Salmani (Uttar Pradesh) 13.51m; 2. Hansdeep Singh (Haryana) 13.16; 3. Yash Verma (Delhi)12.12.

Girls under-14

Shot Put: 1. V Madhumitha (Tamil Nadu) 12.68m; 2. Tamanna (Haryana) 12.20; 3. Harleen Purewal (Chandigarh) 11.58.