Inter-State athletics meet at Chennai

The four-day inter-State athletics meet held at the newly-renovated Nehru Stadium in Chennai had a lot riding on the athletes. The inter-State championship will be the “final selection trials” for the Asian meet to be held in Pune in July this year. The top three will receive a berth at the event. Defending champion Kerala is most likely to clinch the overall team (men and women) title, while there is going to be a tough fight for second place between host Tamil Nadu and Haryana. This is the ninth time an inter-State meet is being held in Chennai.

Team Championship:-

Place	Men	Women	Overall
I	Tamil Nadu – 79 points	Kerala – 112.5 points	Kerala – 172.5 points
II	Haryana – 63.5 points	Tamil Nadu – 68.5 points	Tamil Nadu – 147.5 points

Best Athletes:-

Men:

Renjith Maheshwary (Tamil Nadu) – Triple Jump

 The 27-year-old rewrote his own record (16.73m) set four years back. With the jump (16.98m), Renjith also qualified for the World Championship to be held in Moscow with the ‘B’ standard mark for the worlds being 16.85m

Women:

Sudha Singh (Uttar Pradesh) – 3000m steeplechase

She also qualified for the World Championship to be held in Moscow.

Renjith Maheshwary (Tamil Nadu) – Triple Jump The 27-year-old rewrote his own record (16.73m) set four years back. With the jump (16.98m), Renjith also qualified for the World Championship to be held in Moscow with the ‘B’ standard mark for the worlds being 16.85m