The players of Madhya Pradesh Athletics Academy continue to perform brilliantly in the 35th National Junior Athletics Championship being played at Nagarjuna University Guntur in Andhra Pradesh from November 2 to 6.
In the competition, Academy player Ikram Ali Khan gave one gold medal to Madhya Pradesh in discus throw and Sunil Dabur in the race. While Sandeep Kumar earned one bronze medal each in the pole vault and Bajrangi Prajapati in the paddling event.
With these medals, a total of seven medals, including four gold, one silver and two bronze, have been won by the academy players of Madhya Pradesh.
In the discus throw event of the under-20 boys
category of the competition, Academy player Ikram Ali Khan earned a gold medal by launching a 53.34 meter disc. Similarly, Sunil Dabur won the gold medal by completing five thousand meter
race in
14: 30.93 min /second.
This is Sunil Dabur's second gold medal in the competition. In the under-18 boys category, Sandeep Kumar earned one bronze medal by jumping 4.45 meters in the pole vault event and Bajrangi Prajapati completed the ten thousand meter walk in 44: 03.31 minutes/second.