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Nitika Bhatia hogs limelight
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, February 3
On the second day of the 59th Annual Athletics Meet of Kundan Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, here today, Nitika Bhatia, a student of Class XII, stole the limelight winning three gold medals. In the 800 m race for senior girls, Nitika Bhatia of Subhash House finished ahead of Chetna of Tagore House and Isha Sood of Raman House.

Later, in the 100 m race, Nitika emerged winner. She was followed by Riti Kad of Nehru House and Kitty of Gandhi House. She made a leap of 3.45 meters, bagging a gold in long jump event. Nitika also helped her team to win 4x100 mts relay.

Today’s results: Senior Girls-800 mts -1-Nitika Bhatia, 2- Chetna, 3-Isha Sood: 200 mts- 1- Prerna Sood, 2- Kitty, 3- Isha Sood. 4x100 mts Relay 1-Subhash House, 2- Tagore House, 3- Raman House. 100 mts- 1- Nitika Bhatia, 2- Riti Kad, 3- Kitty. Shotput-1- Prerna, 2- Vandana, 3- Jasleen. 400 Mts- 1- Kanchan Pali, 2- Shivani Malhotra, 3- Seenu Gosain. Long Jump- 1- Nitika Bhatia, 2- Richa and Kanchan, 3- Shreya. Senior Boys: 4x100 mts- 1- Ramnan House, 2- Nehru House, 3- Subhash House. Long Jump - 1- Manpreet Singh, 2- Chetandeep Singh, 3- Gurcharan Singh. Javelin Throw- 1- Amit Lakhanpal, 2- Amardeep, 3- Manpreet.

Shotput- 1-Ankush, 2- Ajay, 3- Neeraj. 1500 mts- 1- Sunny Arora, 2- Anuj Talwar, 3-Manpreet. 200 mts-1-Amit Lakhanpal, 2-Amit Gupta, 3- Pranav Thapar. 400 mts- 1-Arjun Soni, 2- Varun Sood, 3- Chetan deep. High Jump- 1- Ashish, 2- Amit Kumar, 3- Gurcharan Singh. Weightlifting - 1- Vibhu Malhotra and Manpreet Singh, 2- Honey Dhir, 3- Ankush. Discus Throw- 1- Pranav, 2- Vivek, 3- Neeraj. Junior Boys-Back Race- 1- Vishesh, 2- Ankit Talwar, 3- Sumit Sahi. Long Jump-1- Nishant Jain, 2- Sunny Preet, 3- Rohit Sahi. Shot Put-1-Karan Goel, 2- Mohit Gupta, 3- Himanshu Nayyar. 4x100 Relay- 1- Nehru House, 2-Raman House, 3-Tagore House and Gandhi House. 200 mts-1- Sunny Preet, 2- Abhishk Bajaj, 3- Vivek Immanuel. 400 mts-1- Himanshu Nayyar, 2- Karan Goel, 3- Karan Mahajan.

Horse Riding-1- Ramn House, 2- Tagore House, 3- Subhash House. Junior Girls-400 mts- 1-Ginni, 2- Niti Jain, Niti Bansal. Chatti Race- 1- Deepika, 2- Shaveta. Long Jump-1-Neha Chowdhary, 2- Sunakshi, 3- Supam. 4x100 mts Relay-1- Raman House, 2- Subhash House, 3- Gandhi House. Shotput-1-Neha Chowdhary, 2- Niti Bansal, 3- Kanika Likhi. 100 mts-1-Ginni, 2- Sumedha, 3-Reetika Goel. Skipping-1- Jasmine, 2- Tanvi Kalia, 3-Mehak Wadhera.

Pardeep creates record in weightlifting
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, February 3
Local lad Pardeep Sharma improved his own meet record in the Ludhiana District Weightlifting Championship held at the Ludhiana Body Building and Weightlifting Club, Rakh Bagh, here today. In the 69 kg category, Pardeep Sharma with a total lift of 282.5 kg created a new meet record. The previous record of 275 kg also stood in his name. R. Srinivasan of Ludhiana with 275 kg finished second while Inderjeet Singh, also of Ludhiana with 222.5 kg stood third.

Earlier, Dr Iqbal Singh, president of the Ludhiana District Weightlifting Association, inaugurated the meet in which more than sixty participants took part.

Results: 56 kg — 1. Kamaljeet Singh of Ludhiana 177.5 kg, 2. Deepak Sharma of Ludhiana 152.5 kg, and 3. Lakhbir Singh of Sidhwan 137.5 kg;

62 kg— 1. Ramandeep Singh of Khanna 205 kg, 2. Balbir Singh of Ludhiana 185 kg, and 3. Hitesh Sharma 170 kg; 69 kg— 1. Pardeep Sharma of Ludhiana 282.5 kg, 2. R Srinivasan 255 kg; and 3. Inderjit Singh of Ludhiana 222.5 kg; 77 kg— 1. Arjinder Singh of Ludhiana 275 kg, 2. Nazar Singh of Khanna 265 kg, and 3. Sukhwinder Singh of Ludhiana 250 kg.

Ankush and Ritika emerged as champions in chess among senior boys and senior girls, respectively, at the 4th Annual Sports Festival of New S.M.D. Senior Secondary School, New Shivji Nagar, Ludhiana, held yesterday.

In the final, Ankush got the better of Sachin while in the girls section, Ritkia defeated Nitika. In the junior group, Gagandeep outplayed Lalit to win the title.

Results: carrom — (sub junior singles): Vipin Rawat (IV) beat Ashish Kumar (IV); (junior): Aarti (VII) beat Renu (VII); (senior boys): Sachin (X) beat Harsh (X); senior girls- Kavita (X) beat Anuradha (X); carrom doubles— (junior) Nishant and Sahil (VI) beat Nikhil and Nitish (VII); (senior boys): Naveen and Gaurav (X) beat Kamal (IX) and Saurav (VIII); (senior girls): Jyoti and Malika (IX) beat Monika and Anny (IX); chess: (senior boys): Ankush (X) beat Sachin (X); senior girls: Ritika (VIII) beat Nitika (IX); junior boys- Gagandeep (V) beat Lalit (V).