BHOPAL: A day after Madhya Pradesh’s Sunil Dawar smashed 24-year-old national record to win the 5000m gold, Ankita Dhyani of SAI
Bhopal
has set a new national record on Tuesday. Dhyani broke the national record of Sunita Rani in the 5000m race at the 36th National Junior Athletics Championship at Guwahati on Tuesday.
MP has won 11 medals including 5 gold and 3 silver and 3 bronze medals so far in the championship.
The 18-year-old
athlete
from SAI's National Center of Excellence, Bhopal, Ankita completed the 5000 m race in the U-20 competition in 16:21.19. Sunita Rani's timing was 16:21.59 set in Catania, Italy in 1997.
Ankita is an athlete under National Sports of Excellence, Bhopal, under the Khelo India Scheme, who has been practicing for the past two years under the guidance of athletics coach Pratibha Toppo in SAI. Her coach Pratibha Toppo told TOI that Ankita has been practising in SAI for past 2 years. "This is a big day as she broke the national record of a known athlete Sunita Rani. The importance of Ankot's record could be gauged from the fact that it took 24 years to break. We all are proud on her. She is a great prospect for Indian athletics," said Ankita.
Manjushree Dayanand is the Regional Director in-charge of the National Center of Excellence, Bhopal, SAI. MP athletes continued shining in other events also. They won a gold medal in 800 m and a silver in javelin throw.
In the 800 m race of the boys section U-16 organised on the fourth day under the competition, Adarsh Kumar Maurya of Army Boys Company, Jabalpur, completed the race in 1:58.72 to give a gold medal to Madhya Pradesh.
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