Jaipur, Dec 2: Four meet records tumbled in track and field, two from Chandigarh University athletes, even as Guru Nanak Dev University continued to lead the medal tally in the Khelo India University Games here on Tuesday.
Chandigarh University’s Rahul (men’s 20km race walk) and Deepika (women’s Javelin Throw), Ruchir Mori (men’s 400m hurdles) of Swarnim Gujarat Sports University, Lovely Professional University’s Pooja (Women’s High Jump) broke the KIUG meet record.
Guru Nanak Dev University remained at the top of the medal tally with 31 gold. Chandigarh University, last edition’s KIUG champions, clinched 11 gold medals, including seven in Canoe & Kayaking on Tuesday, to take their gold medal tally to 22.
Lovely Professional University also won two gold medals in athletics to consolidate their third spot with 23 gold medals.
Rahul led the 20km Race Walk event from start to end to stop the clock at 1 hour 25 minute 43 seconds, bettering the previous record of 1:26:44.00 set by Akshdeep Singh of Punjabi University back in 2022. Suraj Yadav of Jannayak Chandrashekhar University took the silver with a time of 1:30.06.50.
Later in the day, Ruchir Mori of Swarnim Gujarat Sports University improved on the earlier 400m hurdles KIUG mark of 51.76 seconds held by Amarnath D of Rani Channamma by stopping the clock at 51.00. Since he was the only runner in the event, he was not awarded the gold medal, but his meet record will hold.
Jyoti then cleared a height of 1.77m to win the high jump gold, improving on the previous KIUG record of Gracena Merly by a metre. Khyati Mathur (1.71m) of Guru Kashi University bagged the silver while Giji George Stephen (1.68m) of Anna University won the bronze medal.
Deepika then joined the list of meet record breakers, hurling the javelin to a distance of 55.53m to clinch the gold medal. The earlier record was held by Jyoti of Chaudhary Devi Lal University with a distance of 53.16m. (PTI)
