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Vinod and Amandeep Kaur bag gold medals in 1500 meters
Balbir Singh
Chandigarh, November 25, 2023; Middle distance runner Vinod of JCDAV-Dasuya won the 1500 metres race for men by clocking ) 3:59.0 seconds in the 75th Panjab University Annual Athletic Meet at the PU Campus here today. Junaid Khan of SGGS College, Sector clocked 3:59.2 seconds to claim silver while Basant of GGDSD, Chandigarh earned bronze medal with a timing of 4:01.0 seconds.
In the 1500 metres race for women, Amandeep Kaur of GTB Khalsa College of Dasuya was the first runner to cross the finish-line in 4:33.20 seconds to earn a gold medal.
Tannu and Vineeta Gurjar, both of MCM DAV College, Chandigarh) earned silver and bronze medals by clocking 4:37.20 and 4:38.10, respectively.Tejinder Pal Singh Toor was the chief guest in the opening ceremony. As many as 120 men and women are participating in the meet.
Panjab University Campus Sports Athletics team won the best March Past trophy.
Day 1 results:
High Jump (Men): 1 Mandeep (GGD SD College, Chd), 2.04 mtrs., 2 Chirag Gupta (DAV College, Chandigarh) 1.95 mtrs, 3 Robanpreet Singh (JC DAV-Dasuya) 1.85 mtrs.
Shotput Men (Edu. College): 1 Maninder Kaur (SDS-Moga) 7.08 Mtrs, 2 Shama (Govt. College of Edu. Mkt) 6.56 mtrs., 3 Simran Saggi (Govt. College of yoga, Chd) 6.35 mtrs.
Shotput Women (Edu. College): 1 Anmol Singh (Kh. College, Muktsar) 8.48 Mtrs., 2 Ravinder (Govt. College of Edu., Chd) 8.37 Mtrs., 3 Rahul Bhatia (BCM College of Edu) 7.99 Mtrs.
4x400 Mtrs. Mixed Relay: 1 Vivek Banerjee, Radha, Akshi Malik and Jaspreet Singh (GGD SD-Chd.) 3:50.30 Secs., 2 Asha, Mahendra, Garima, Arvind Kumar (DAV-Chd) 3:52.60 Secs., 3 Gurpreet Ram, Sadhna Choudhary, Taniya, Hardeep Kumar (SGGS-Chd 4:15.2 Secs.)
Shotput (Men): 1 Varinder Pal Singh (SGGS-Chd) 17.58 Mtrs., 2 Sanyam (GGD SD-Chd) 16.68 Mtrs., 3 Iqbal Ssingh (SGGS-Chd) 16.15 Mtrs.
400 Mtrs. (Women): 1 Lovepreet Kaur (JC DAV College, Dasuya_59.58 Secs, 2 Asha (DAV College,Chd) 1:04.40 Secs, 3 Sanjan (Bhag Kh. College Abohar) 1:01.90 Secs.
400 Mtrs. (Men): 1 Jobanwant Singh (SGGS College, Chandigarh) 48.50 Secs., 2 Ankit (GGDSD College, Chandigarh) 49.0 Secs, 3 Lovepreet Singh (SGGS College, Chandigarh) 49.1 Secs.
1500 Mtrs. (Women): 1 Amandeep Kaur (GTB KH. College, Dasuya) 4:33.20 Secs., 2 Tannu (MCM DAV College, Chandigarh) 4:37.20 Secs., 3 Vineeta Gurjar (MCM DAV College, Chandigarh) 4:38.10 Secs.
800 Mtrs. (Edu. College): 1 Amrit Kaur (Govt. College of Edu. Sector 20 Chd) 3:06.2 Secs., 2 Heman Sharma (DGC-Badal) 3:14.8, 3 Jyoti ( Govt. College of Yoga, Chd) 3:23.7 Sec.
100 Mts. Women: 1 Mary Mukta (DGC-Badal) 12.3 Secs., 2 Simran Kaur (MCM DAV-Chd) 12.5 Secs., 3 Rishita Kaur (GGDSD-Chd) 12.6 Secs.
Shotput (Women): 1 Khushi Rana (MCM DAV-Chd) 13.66 Mtrs., Jyoti Vaishnav (MCM DAV-Chd) 13.13 Mtrs., 3 Harleen (GGDSD-Chd) 12.80 Mtrs.
Javelin (Men): 1 Ankit Malik (GGDSD-Chd) 64.27 Mtrs., 2 Nitish Singh (SGGS-Chd) 60.33 Mtrs., 3 Sandeep (SGGS-Chd) 57.37 Mtrs.
100 Mts. Men Edu. College: 1 t Shubham (Govt. College, Yoga, Chd) 12.3 Mtrs., 2 Karan (Govt. College of Yoga, Chd) 12.6 Mtrs., 3 Sourav Kumar (DAV College Abohar) 13.0 Mtrs.
1500 Mtrs. (Men): 1 Vinod (JC DAV-Dasuya) 3:59.0 Secs., 2 Junaid Khan (SGGS-Chd) 3:59.2 Secs., 3 Basant (GGDSD-Chd) 4:01.0 Secs.
800 Mtrs. (Edu. College): 1 Kuldeep Singh (Kh. College of Edu. Mkt) 2:28.7 Secs., 2 Rajesh (Govt. College of Yoga, Chd), 2:29.3 Secs., Pardeep Kumar (KCE-Abohar)2:31.0 Secs.