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Putting up their best performance in recent years, Odisha athletes bagged seven medals in the 19th Federation Cup Senior National Championship that concluded at Mangla Stadium in Mangaluru on Monday. Medals included four gold, two silver and one bronze.
Woman sprinter Srabani Nanda was the star achiever of the five-member Odisha squad, securing a golden double. Employee of East Coast Railway, Srabani completed the double by adding the 200m title, which she claimed with a timing of 23.67 seconds, to the 100m crown she had pocketed on the second day of the four-day championship, clocking 11.59 seconds.
This was Srabani`s the best achievement in a senior national meet and she was rightly adjudged the best woman athlete of the meet with 1086 points. A former trainee of Government Sports Hostel (Bhubaneswar), Srabani also made the cut for the Asian Athletics Championship, scheduled to be held at Wuhan, China.
