Five more new records in State Athletics Meet

The second day of the 65th Odisha State Athletics Championship delivered five new meet records at Cuttack today. Koraput runner Surendra Khara created a new meet record in under-14 boys’ 600m event, clocking 1 minute, 25.1 second. Other four new meet marks of the day were created by girls.

Basanti Majhi (U-14 600m), Fulamani Karjee (U-18 400m), Manisha Merel (U-18 long jump) and Pragyan Prasanti Saha (U-20 100m hurdles) broke the previous meet records in respective events. Among other notable achievers of the day, junior international Punga Soren equalled meet record in U-18 boys’ 110m hurdles, while ace para athlete Jayanti Behera along with Roshan Minz, Jamuna Tudu, Budhini Majhi, Manisha Merel and Eva Dang clinched a double each.

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