31st National Junior Athletic Championships

Ranchi :

City’s and Karnataka’s top junior athlete P.S. Uma, representing Karnataka in the 31st National Junior Athletic Championships which concluded at Ranchi on Wednesday, won the silver medal in the U-20 girls Shot Put event.

Uma a product of DYES, Mysuru, and a student of Teresian College of Women, Mysuru, threw the shot put to a distance of 13.17 mts to clinch the silver. Meghana Devanga of Maharashtra won the gold with a throw of 13.73mts. Nidhi of Uttar Pradesh took the bronze with a throw of 11.83 mts. In the U-20 women’s 4×400 mts relay event, Mysuru girl M.Likitha, R.A. Chitra, H.R. Navami, G.K. Vijayakumari, representing Karnataka ‘A’ team, won the bronze medal with a timing of 3:58.46 sec.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / Friday – November 27th, 2015