Nagpur’s Riya wins silver, Saurav bronze

Nagpur: The city's steeplechase runners, Riya Dohatare and Saurav Tiwari, won a silver and a bronze medal each on the concluding day of the 73rd Maharashtra State Senior Athletics Championship in Pune on Monday.In the women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Riya clocked 11 minutes 25.23 seconds but fell short by 39 seconds to finish second. Satara's Prachi Devkar gave a timing of 10:45.92 minutes to clinch gold. Vaishnavi Sawant (12:06.07) secured the bronze medal.In the men's 3000 metres steeplechase final, Nagpur's Saurav Tiwari clinched the bronze medal with a timing of 9:01.15 minutes. He followed behind Nashik's Shubham Bhandare (8:38.92) and Pune's Dhuladev Ghagre (8:59.50) on the podium.In the women's 10,000 metres race, Nagpur's Swati Panchbudhe finished in seventh place. In the 800 metres race, there were high hopes from Nagpur's runners, but in the women's category, Bhuneshwari Masram finished fifth, while in the men's race, Atharva Bhandekar and Harsh Singh took the sixth and eighth positions, respectively.In the men's decathlon, which included a total of ten events and spanned two days, Digant Bapat (590 points) finished ninth, while Amol Bawane (586 points) came tenth. In the men's 4x400 relay race, the Nagpur district team could not meet the expectations and finished fourth.