Annu Rani, Sagar show class at Patiala athletics meet

Kanpur: Annu Rani of Meerut and Ajay Kumar Sagar of Varanasi on Thursday won javelin throw and 1,500 metres race, respectively, in the Indian Grand Prix-II athletics meet being held at Netaji Subhash National Institute, Patiala.
Javelin thrower Annu Rani (Uttar Pradesh), seeking an Olympic qualifying mark of 64.00m, wound herself up and delivered a 61.22m throw with her opening effort.She followed that up with two throws over the 60m mark.
PK Srivastava, honorary secretary, UPAA said, “Annu Rani has already qualified for Tokyo Olympic and is in the elite group of athletes which is being trained . Her present world ranking is 12.”
Sanjana Chaudhary of Rajasthan stood second when her throw measured the distance of 53.27 mtrs. Sharmila Kumari of Haryana got third place hauling javelin 50.93 mtrs.
Ajay Kumar of Varanasi emerged as winner of 1,500 meters race clocking 3:44.31 seconds. Rahul of Delhi recorded 3:45.98 time and got second place. Ajeet Kumar of Gujrat stood at third place recording 3:51.30 S time.
Yugan Shankar of UP got a silver in the long jump event when he took a leap of 7.85 mtrs. First place was won by M Sreesankaran of Kerala when he jumped 8.05 mtrs. MA Yahia of Kerala got third place with 7.76 mts long leap.
Rohit Yadav of UP also got a silver in javelin throw when he hurled javelin 77.33 mtrs. Sahil Siliwal of Haryana got first place when he hurled javelin 77.40 mtrs. Manu DP of Karnataka got third place by throwing the javelin 75.28 mtrs.