Athletes of Durg district dominated the first day of the three-day State-level Inter-College Athletics event began at Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (Pt RSU) here on Thursday.Government Nagarjuna Post Graduate College of Science is hosting the event under the guidance of Department of Higher Education, Chhattisgarh Government. Sprinting, shot put and other events were organised on day-one of the event.
In 100-mtr race (boys), Pratik Krishnan and Pramod (Durg) stood first and second respectively while Sudhir (Raipur) came third. Nakeshwar (Durg), Ajay Porte (Korba), Ramrati (Raipur) came first, second and third respectively in the 800-mtr race, Nakeshwar (Durg), Ajay (Korba) and Ajay (Bastar) came first, second and third respectively in the 1500 mtr race, Ranjit Patel (Durg), Yudhisthir Sahu (Durg), Balram (Bastar) stood first, second and third in the 5000-mtr race.
In High Jump (boys), Tikam Singh Patel (Baloda Bazaar), Budhru Ram (Bastar) and Ajay Patel (Korba) stood first, second and third respectively. In Shot Put (boys), Deepak Gehlot (Durg) came first while Himanshu Chandrakar and Anand Dadsena (Raipur) came second and third respectively. In High Jump (girls), Ushma Patel (Korba), Sunita Markam (Bastar) and Chanda Paikra (Surguja) stood first, second and third respectively.
Similarly, in Discus Throw (boys), Himansh Chandrakar won first prize followed by V Rudrapati (Durg) and Anand Dadsena (Raipur) won second and third prize respectively. In girls category, Payal Dilliwar (Durg), Shahnaz (Raipur) and Deepika (Durg) stood first, second and third respectively in 100 metre race, Reshma Dugga (Bastar), Chhaya Verma (Baloda Bazaar) and Santoshi Yadav (Durg) won first, second and third prize in 400 metre, Mamta Hirwani (Durg), Sumitra Dhiwar (Korba) and Rinky (Durg) came first, second and third in the 1500 metre, Balmati (Bastar), Ramin Nishad (Baloda Bazaar) and Mamta Hirwani (Durg) stood first, second and third in 5000 metre.
In Shot Put (girls), Sangeeta Singh (Surguja)Rashi Tiwari (Bilaspur), Mukt Thakur (Raipur) came first, second and third respectively. In Discus Throw (girls), Shalini Kashyap (Korba), Sangeeta Singh (Surguja) and Rashi Tiwari (Bilaspur) won first, second and third prize respectively.