MOP, Loyola emerge champions

Chennai: Loyola College men and MOP Vaishnav women continued their dominance in the athletic community as they lifted the overall championship in the final day of the A.L.

Mudaliar inter-college athletic meet at the Nehru Stadium on Thursday . It happened to be Loyola's 12th consecutive title at the meet while MOP Vaishnav bagged the championship for the 10th time in succession.

G. Gayathry (MOP Vaishnav), who won the individual championship in the women's category with 1007 points, scorched her way in the final leg of the 4X100m relay (48.9s) to clinch gold medal followed by Ethiraj (50.9s).

However, the run from the Madras Christian ( College quartet -1 P a r t h i b a n , ( Silambarasan, Balayya and Thiyagarajan (42.2s) 1 -in the 4x100m men's relay took centre stage in front of a vociferous ( crowd. The final dash by Thiyagarajan pipped his 1 challenger from Loyola as MCC bagged gold.

Loyola, for a change, had to be content with a silver medal. ( A. A. Vijay Kumar, an 1 elated physical director of Loyola College, was ( keen on pushing his I young wards to achieve greater success in the t years to come. “It's is a fresh group. There is a lot of talent and the management has given tremendous support to these youngsters. Had it not ( been for the injury to Augustin Yesudas (who won gold in the 100m race at junior nationals in Kochi), we would have done better in the relay events as well,“ he added.

Results: Men: Half marathon: 1. P. Isaac (Madras Christian, 1.16.21.8s); 2. K. Mani (Nazareth, 1.17.51.1s); 3.
Jayaganesh (Presidency, 1.18.31.7s). 110m hurdles: 1. J.Thiyagarajan (Madras Christian, 15s); 2. I. Prathesh (Madras Christian, 15.6s); 3.
Sathish Kumar (A.M. Jain, 15.8s). Long jump: 1. M.Silambarasan (Madras Christian, 7.27m); 2. Y.
Vinoth Kumar (Presidency, 6.96m); 3. M. Sakthivel (Presidency, 6.83m). 200m: 1. Kuldeep Singh (Loyola, 21.6s); 2. Binu Aquito (Madras Christian, 21.9s); 3.I. Parthiban (Madras Christian, 22.2s). Discus throw: 1. N. Sathish (Madras Christian, 39.96m); 2. A.
Thoushit Ahmed (Madras Christian, 38.64m); 3.Sarath Kumar (Loyola, 37.13m). 1500m: 1. Daniel (Madras Christian, 4.08.9s); 2. Gokulakannan (Loyola, 4.09.3s); 3. M. Selvam (Loyola, 4.10.8s). High jump: 1. Bharath (Presidency, 2m); 2. Ganesh (Loyola, 1.85m); 3, Dinesh Kumar (Madras Christian, 1.85m).Decathlon: 1. S. Pandian (Loyola, 5656pts); 2. M.Vikash (Madras Christian, 5205pts); 3. Ramkumar (Presidency, 3599pts).
Women: 200mts: 1. K.Aarthi (D.G. Vaishnav, 26s); 2. P.S. Vinodhini (Ethiraj, 26.2s); 3. Dhanalakshmi (Ethiraj, 26.8s). Long jump: 1. B. Rukmani (Ethiraj, 5.49m); 2. I. Monisha (JBAS, 5.42m); 3. S. Neelaveni (MOP Vaishnav, 5.41m).

1500 mts: 1. G. Vinodhini (MOP Vaishnav, 5.17.2s); 2.
Anbu Selvi (Ethiraj, 5.45.2s); 3. P.T. Grace (Women's Christian, 6.64.2s).
Heptathlon: 1. G. Gayathry (MOP Vaishnav, 4702); 2. K.Lavanya (MOP Vaishnav, 3915); 3. K. Keerthana (Anna Adarsh, 3568); R.V. Vishwa Priya (Ethiraj, 3271).4x100mts: 1. MOP Vaishnav (48.9s); 2. Ethiraj (50.9s); 3.JBAS (51.8s).

Championship: Men: Winner: Loyola: Gold 11, Silver 6, Bronze 5. Runnersup: Madras Christian: Gold 9, Silver 8, Bronze 8.
Women: Winner: MOP Vaishnav: Gold 17, Silver 8, Bronze 5. Runners-up: Ethiraj: Gold 2, Silver 8, Bronze 5.
Individual championship: Women: G. Gayathry (MOP Vaishnav College, 1007pts); men: Kuldeep Singh (Loyola, 1008).

SRM thump Kuvempu Results of south zone interuniversity women's volley ball tournament: QF: Calicut bt Bharathiyar 25-18, 19-25, 25-16, 25-20; M.G.

University bt Kannur 25-27, 25-21, 25-16, 19-25, 15-11; SRM bt Kuvempu 25-11, 2514, 25-12. League: Kuvempu bt Achariya 25-8, 25-17, 259; Bharathiyar bt Vel's 18-25, 25-17, 25-14, 25-16; Madurai Kamaraj bt Bharathidasan 26-24, 25-12, 25-15.

Rich haul for TN athletes S. Samyuktha of Tamil Nadu claimed gold in the U-14 girls long jump at the 29th national junior athletics championship being held in Bengaluru on Thursday . Samyuktha cleared a distance of 5.32m. In shot put J.Elakeya secured bronze for her creditable third place finish. Mahashri Baloda and Kavita Goswami (both from Delhi) ended up winning the gold and silver respectively. In the U-18 girls long jump TN girls G. Karthika and V . Akshaya Sonasri did their state proud by bagging the gold. and bronze. In the boys U-16 long jump M. Jeeva claimed a bronze.