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Chennai: Haryana discus thrower Sachin accomplished what he was longing for \u2013 a national junior record! The 18-year-old athlete already had two outings in the international arena three years ago when he represented the nation in the World Youth Championships at Villeneuve de Ascq, France, and Commonwealth Youth Games at Douglas, Scotland. <\/p>\n
However 2014 will be a memorable year for Sachin as he set his goal for the first-ever gold on his career outside the country. The record-hungry Haryana boy grabbed the top spot on his very first attempt on Saturday evening by hurled the 1.75 kg disc to a superb 58.11m, hence take away Punjab thrower Kripal Singh\u2019s from the record-books in just 1 cm. His mark placed him in \u2018numero uno\u2019 position on the current Asian junior rankings (and eleventh in the World junior lists) and make him a hot-favourite for a podium finish in Chinese Taipei later next month. Iran\u2019s Mojtaba Shabaneh had won the gold in the last Asian junior championships in Colombo, two years ago, with a performance of 58.79m.<\/p>\n
Rajasthan\u2019s Praveen Kumar missed the qualifier when finished second with 54.76m while another Haryana lad Nirbhay Singh settled with the bronze in 52.69m.<\/p>\n
Navjeet sizzles in shot put<\/strong><\/p>\n Punjab girl Navjeet Kaur Dhillon, who finished ninth in the senior Asian championships at Pune last year (where she finished seventh in discus throw), was the cynosure of all eyes as she improved upon her state-mate Manpreet Kaur\u2019s six year old national junior record. Incidentally her record \u2013 15.89m – also came on the very first round. Having pocketed the gold and satisfied the new mark, Navjeet skipped the remaining rounds and encouraged her teammate Manpreet Singh jr \u2013 who garnered the silver medal with 13.53m. Uttarakhand Ramanpreet Kaur was third with 13.50m.<\/p>\n Decathlete Ankit Saini become the second athlete from Haryana to qualify for the Asian junior championships today as garnered 6600 points to achieve it as also improved the meet mark that stood in the name of Bhupinder Singh of Punjab since 2006 by 23 points.<\/p>\n Hosts Tamil Nadu dominated the sprint relay event by annexed both the gold medals that were at stake today. The junior women team consists of Dhanalakshmi, Deepika, Vinodini and Archana improved upon Karnataka\u2019s 13-year-old meet mark clocking a new time of 48.25 secs. Earlier Deepika won another gold by taking on the 100m hurdles in which Dhanalakshmi got a bronze medal. The silver medalist in that event \u2013 Meghana Shetty of Karnataka in 14.28 secs \u2013 have earned a berth in the national team for the Asian meet. As expected Kerala hurdler Nasimudheen had won the 110m hurdles in 14.35 secs .<\/p>\n Kerala team with 97 points pushed the previous day\u2019s leaders and defending champion Haryana (92) to second spot in the championship race!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" However 2014 will be a memorable year for Sachin as he set his goal for the first-ever gold on his career outside the country. The record-hungry Haryana boy grabbed the top spot on his very first attempt on Saturday evening by hurled the 1.75 kg disc to a superb 58.11m, hence take away Punjab thrower Kripal Singh\u2019s from the record-books in just 1 cm. His mark placed him in \u2018numero uno\u2019 position on the current Asian junior rankings (and eleventh in the World junior lists) and make him a hot-favourite for a podium finish in Chinese Taipei later next month. Iran\u2019s Mojtaba Shabaneh had won the gold in the last Asian junior championships in Colombo, two years ago, with a performance of 58.79m.<\/p>\n Rajasthan\u2019s Praveen Kumar missed the qualifier when finished second with 54.76m while another Haryana lad Nirbhay Singh settled with the bronze in 52.69m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"\nChennai: Haryana discus thrower Sachin accomplished what he was longing for \u2013 a national junior record! The 18-year-old athlete already had two outings in the international arena three years ago when he represented the nation in the World Youth Championships at Villeneuve de Ascq, France, and Commonwealth Youth Games at Douglas, Scotland. <\/p>\n