Surender wins 10,000m gold at National Open Athletics

Bhopal: Long distance runner Surender Singh today bagged his second gold of the event when he clocked

29:19.40s to win men`s 10,000m event at the 49th Open National Athletics championships here today. The day witnessed a keen tussle between the athletes of Railways and Services. Services` Surender had also won the 5000m gold on day one of the event. He was followed by Sandeep of Railways (30:03.66s) and BC Tilak of Services (30:05.14s). In the absence of Ravinder of Delhi, C Hamza of Services scored an easy win in the 1500m event. Hamza clocked 3:42.87s ahead of his teammates E Benazer (3:48.02) and Rajan KK (3:48.94) who secured the silver and bronze respectively. Railway bagged all the medals in the women`s 1500m event, as Sushma Devi clinched gold by clocking 4:22.86s and was followed by Bindu SR 4:24.08 and Priyanka Patel 4:25.70s. The gold of 10000m women came with a comfortable win for the Kavita Raut who finished the race by clocking 33:57.40s. Her arch rival Preeti L Rao was far behind with a timing of 36:06.86s. Lalita Babar took the bronze for Railways with 37:20.01s. Railway have taken their medal tally to 57 (22G, 21S, 14B). Services are in the second spot with a total of 18 medals including six gold, six silver and six bronze. Kerala are placed third with four gold. Bureau Report