St. Joseph’s Sports Academy (Chennai) with 219 points won the overall championship at the 91st senior State athletic championship at the Anna stadium here. St. Joseph’s Sports Academy won the overall championship in the men’s and women’s category with 137 points and 82 points respectively.
Arise Steel Athletic Academy (Chennai) were the runners up at 119 points with men finishing on 66 points and women at 53 points.
C. Praveen from Arise Steel Athletic Academy with 1082 points was declared the best male athlete while A. Chandralekha from Indian Bank was the best athlete in the women’s category with 1060 points.
The results: (winners only):
Category:
Men: 100m: Sivakumar (ICF) 10.46s; 200m: V.K. Elakkiya Dasan (Golden Athletic Academy) 21.19s; 400m: R. Mohan (ICF) 46.91s; 800m: Vellayatthevan (ICF) 1:52.63s; 1500m: Dharmendra Singh (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 3:59.56s; 110m hurdles: J. Surendhar (TN Revenue Dept) 14.20s; 400m hurdles: K. Sathish (Elshaddai SGA) 52.66s; 5000m: M. Satish Kumar (Arise Steel Athletic Academy) 15:15.30s; 10000m: Shanmugam (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 32:07.04s; 10km walk: Vijay Bebin Raj (Arise Steel Athletic Academy) 46:26.12s.
Long jump: Vishnu (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 7.73m; High jump: Bharathi (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 2.09m; Triple jump: C. Praveen (Arise Steel Athletic Academy) 16.22m; Pole Vault: Siva (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 5.05m; Shot put: Saravanan (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 15.52m; Discus throw: M. Kumar (Tvl) 44.53m; Javelin throw: Vivek (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 63.85m.
Hammer throw: N. Shankar (TN Revenue Dept) 60.10m; Decathlon: Suren (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 6580 pts; 4x100m: (TN Revenue Dept) 41.62s; 4x400m: (Arise Steel Athletic Academy) 3:15.32s.
Women: 100m: A. Chandralekha (Indian Bank) 11.66s; 200m: A. Chandralekha 24.19s; 400m: G. Vijayakumari (TN Revenue Dept) 54.45s; 800m: K. Priya (SDAT) 2:12.39s; 1500m: K. Geetha (TN Police) 4:42.81s.
100m hurdles: Kanimozhi (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 14.02s; 400m hurdles: R.V. Vishwapriya (Indian Bank) 1:02.50s; 5000m: K. Geetha 17:48.29s; 10000m: Legnesh (SDAT) 41:08.5s; 10km walk: R. Pavithra (Nova Athletic Academy) 1h01:34.65s.
Long jump: Thabitha (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 5.94m; High jump: Santhiya (Arise Steel Athletic Academy) 1.64m; Triple jump: Coleshiya (St. Joseph’s Sports Academy) 12.31m; Pole vault: V.S. Sureka (Southern Railway) 3.70m.
Shot put: Nandhini (Arise Steel Athletic Academy) 13.73m; Discus throw: S. Nithya (Perumal Ramasamy) 41.10m; Javelin throw: S. Saraswathi (Southern Railway) 41.32m.
Hammer throw: S. Srinithi (Do or Die Athletic Academy) 49.70m; Heptathalon: G. Mohana (NLC) 3874 pts; 4x100m: Indian Bank 48.64s; 4x400m: (Indian Bank) 3:54.69s.