10th May 2012

11th National Junior Federation Cup athletics 2012

 Kerala missed the overall championship by a wisker. Kerala became runners-up with 139 points just one point behind the Haryana. 4x400m Relay for girls event was called off because only two teams reported at the call room for the competition. That sealed the fate for the state. Though Kerala made a clean sweep in pole vault for girls the points were not counted for chgampionship, since there was no athletes from any other state faired in the starters' list. jessy Joseph lost her rythem in her race to finish second behind the haryana girl.

THARA M D (10:16.87) won the third place in 300m for Girls, JESSY JOSEPH,(2:13.12) second place in 800m, Kerala made a clean sweep in girls pole vault . KRISHNA RACHAN,3.00m won the gold, SINJU PRAKASH, (2.90m) won the silver and ALEENAMOL SUNNY( 2.20m) won the bronze. ADHEENA P G (4219pt) silver in Heptathlon. EBIN SUNNY,(4.20m) silver in pole Vault

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9th May 2012

Kerala is in the second position in the 11th National junior Federation Cup athletics Championship being conducted at Balewadi sports Complex, Pune.

KERALA  (43.40) won the third position  in 4x100m Relay for Boys  The team members were: AMAL ANTONY,  BAIJU K, . MOHAMMED, SHERSHAD, MOHAMMED RIYAS.
4x400 m Relay Boys  Kerala won the gold medal with a performance of  3:21.17. The following were the team members: SAJID N P, NOAH NIRMAL TOM,  ANEES RAHMAN E, LIJO MANI,

ANU R,  created a National Record in 400mH for girls with a performance of  1:01.06. The old record was in the name of A. KALYANI  of AP (1:02.10)  created in the year 2001. MERLIN P, followed her with a performance of 1:06.68 to fetch the bronze. JINU MARIA MANUEL, (1.62m) won the gold medal in girls High Jump, THARA M D, (18:02.89) won the silver, in the 5000m Junior Girls . KERALA  Team won the silver medal in the 4x100m Relay ( 50.79) ASWINI K S, ANNIE K R, REVATHY O V, RENGITHA C, were the team members.   SAFEEDA M P, won another silver for the state in 200m steeple chase with a performance of  8:14.07

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Coaches Licensing and Education Programme

The participants of the Coaches Licensing and Education Programme conducted at LNCPE, Tthiruvanathapuram, with the guest of honour. Dr. G Kishore, Principal, LNCPE, Sri. M. Velayudhankutty, Secretary, Kerala State Athletics Association, and the lecturers Sri. P. Radhakrishnan and Sri. Nishadkumar.

7th May 2012

Asian Grand Prix

Sajeesh Joseph, looking for an Olympic qualification standard of 1:46.30, clocked his season best 1:47.78, his seventh sub-1:48 timing, in beating Asian Games silver medallist Adnan Taes of Iraq in the men's 800 metres, in the opening edition of Asian Grand Prix Athletics at national stadium, Thailand

26th April 2012

Coaches Licensing and Education Programme

Sri. C K Valson, Secretary General inaugurates the first Coaches licensing and education Programme at LNCPE, Thiruvanathapuram.in the presence of Dr. G Kishore, Principal, LNCPE Sri. G Isaac, Deputy Director, Sri. M. Velayudhankutty Honorary Secretary Kerala State Athletics Association.

Mr. C K Valson, Secretary General of Athletics Federation to Inaugurate.

 Mr. C K Valson, Secretary General of Athletics Federation of India to inaugurate the first ever Coaches Licensing and Education Programme in India at LNCPE, Thiruvanathapuram at 9.00 am on tomorrow, 26th April 2012. Dr. G. Kishore, Principal LNCPE, and Sri. G Isaac, Deputy Director, Sports Authority of India and Sri. Baby Mathew Somatheeram, President Kerala State Athletics Association will grace the occasion.

Kerala State Athletics Association has taken the initiative to introduce this programme  in line with the International Association of Athletics Federations’ schemes. Sri. P. Radhakrishnan ( Level 5 Coaching Development Director and Level II Lecturer of IAAF and former National coach) , Sri. M.V. Mathai M.S (Athletics) fitness Expert, NSNIS, Bengaluru and N Nishadkumar MS (Athletics), National Coach (Jumps) and Lecturer, LNCPE, Thiruvanathapuram will be the recourse persons for this course. The participants will be evaluated by these experts and successful participants will be issued with Certificates and License to impart training in athletics.

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25th April 2010

16th Federation Cup Athletics 2012

Kerala won the women’s Title.

Kerala won the team championship in women’s section securing 44 points. But they finished runners up behind ONGC in overall standing. ONGC topped among the men with 86 points while Kerala stood first in the women’s division by pushing the medal-leader Uttar Pradesh (4-2-2) to second place on points (44 to 37) basis.  The decision to award the championships based on points to six places came in to effect from this meet as approved in the last AGM of the federation at Manesar earlier this month.

As expected Kerala’s C.T. Raji takes the top spot in women’s 100m hurdles clocking 14.61s—the slowest winning time in all the sixteen editions of the above championships! 
In yet another keen contest, Kerala runner Sajeesh Joseph once again overpowered veteran Ghamanda Ram (ONGC) in the men’s 800m but barely missed the Olympic grade by just over 2 seconds in his winning time of 1:48.36. M A Prajusha completed her double by winning triple jump with a mediocre performance. Sinimole Paulose who is representing ONGC also completed her double in middle distance races

The results:
Men: 200m: 1. Nitin Kumar (IAF) 22.13s, 2. Bopanna G. N. (Kar) 22.22, 3. Shahansha K. S. (Ker) 22.78. 800m: 1. Sajeesh Joseph (Ker)1:48.36, 2. Ghamanda Ram (ONGC) 1:50.08, 3. Manjit Singh (ONGC) 1:50.40. 10,000m: 1. Suresh Kumar (ONGC) 29:16.91, 2. Vishnu Lal Dangi (Raj) 29:24.89, 3. Ratiram (Raj) 29:27.33.
110m hurdles: 1. Sidhanth Thingalaya (ONGC) 13.69 (NR, previous 13.77), 2. J. Surendhar (TN) 14.14, 3. Balamurugan (TN) 14.19. Shot put: 1. Saurabh Vij (ONGC) 18.42m, 2. Jagroop Singh (BSF) 18.36, 3. Shakti Singh (Raj) 18.10. 4x400m relay: Chhattisgarh 3:18.08, 2. Uttar Pradesh 3:18.91, 3. Army 3:20.05.

Women:  200m: 1. Manisha (Har) 24.81s, 2. Srabani Nanda (Ori) 24.90, 3. K. Sowjanya (AP) 25.23. 800m: 1. Sinimole Paulose (ONGC) 2:07.01, 2. Gomathy (TN) 2:11.24, 3. Sugumatilaguri (Ori) 2:11.74. 10,000m: 1. Archana Pal (UP) 38:53.16, 2. Anuradha Singh (MP) 38:55.50, 3. Kiran (UP) 40:04.37. 100m hurdles: Raji C. T. (Ker) 14.61s, 2. Sajitha K.V. (Ker) 14.94, 3. Manju P.M. (Kar) 15.03.
Triple jump: 1. Prajusha M.A. (Ker) 13.12m, 2. Amitha Baby (Ker) 12.54, 3. Shradha B. Ghule (Mah) 12.39.
Discus: 1. Kumari Praveen (BSNL) 50.55m, 2. Pramila (Har)48.24, 3. Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (ONGC) 46.78. Hammer: 1. Manju Bala (Raj) 57.71m, 2. Gunjan Singh (UP) 55.71, 3. Sarita Prakash Singh (Guj) 53.36.
Heptathlon: 1. Susmita Singha Roy (Ben) 5553 pts, 3. Navpreet Kaur (Pun) 5270, 3. Liksy Joseph (Ker) 4787.

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24 April 2012

New Meet Record FOR IRFAN

Irfan K T

The men's 20km racewalk also produced a string of excellent timings, with Kerala's Irfan K.T. winning in a new meet record time of 1:22:14. The top six finishers clocked better than the meet record. The listed meet record of Gurmeet Singh (1:31:18.46) happens to be one set on track. Incidentally, Irfan, who had a previous personal best of 1:28:09, timed at the last National Games, was under the ‘A's standard for the Olympics (1:22:30), but being a non-designated event this will not count. In the women's event, the ‘B' standard is 1:38.

Irfan, who hails from Malappuram District in Kerala tested his ability only four years ago. He started to accomany one of his senior race walking athletes under the watchfull eyes of athletics coach Mr. A Bose. He was selected to MRC Willington two years ago based on his performance in the south Zone Athletics Championship.

Results
Men: 3000m steeplechase: 1. Jaiveer Singh (Har) 8:49.01, 2. Th. Sanjit Luwang (Man) 8:50.93, 3. Sunil Kumar (Har) 8:52.88.
400m hurdles: 1. Joseph Abraham (Chg) 49.98s (NMR, previous 50.04), 2. Avin Thomas (Ker) 51.25, 3. Jithin Paul (Chg) 51.33; Pole vault: 1. Bineesh Jacob (Ker) 4.80, 2. Parmender Patel (ONGC) 4.70, 3. Praveen Kumar (Har) 4.70.
Long jump: 1. Ankit Sharma (MP) 7.79m, 2. Tanmoy Adhikari (MP) 7.47, 3. M. Arshad (IAF) 7.45; Hammer: 1. Chandrodaya Narain Singh (UP) 67.78m, 2. Harvinder Singh (ONGC) 67.01, 3. Kamalpreet Singh (ONGC) 65.50.
Javelin: 1. Rohit Kumar (ONGC) 76.73m, 2. Rajender Singh (Har) 76.12, 3. Anil Kumar Singh (Del) 74.48; 4x100m relay: 1. Tamil Nadu 41.49s, 2. Air Force 41.77, 3. Uttar Pradesh 42.13.
20km walk: 1. Irfan K.T. (Ker) 1:22:14 (NMR, previous 1:31:18.46T), 2. Surender Singh (Pun) 1:22:37, 3. Maniram Patel (MP) 1:22:40.
Women: 3000m steeplechase: 1. Geeta Rai (UP) 11:32.46, 2. Chinta Yadav (UP) 12:09.08, 3. Vibha Yadav (UP) 13:17.34.
400m hurdles: 1. Bhupinder Kaur (Pun) 1:01.27, 2. Raji C.T. (Ker) 1:01.67, 3. Anju Rani (NGC) 1:01.99; 4x100m relay: 1. Bengal 47.89s, 2. Kerala 48.75, 3. Delhi 49.41.
20km walk: 1. Khushbir Kaur (ONGC) 1:37:28 (NR, previous 1:37:44), 2. Anitha Mahala (Kar) 1:44:19, 3. Ranjana Gupta (MP) 1:45:06.

23rd April

The 21-year-old Jithin Thomas had a PB of 2.18 in Bangalore during the trials for the Asian indoor meet in February last. He stretched it to 2.20 on Sunday while scoring over National record holder Hari Sankar Roy for the first time.

Roy could manage only 2.05m, failing thrice at 2.10, eventually sharing the silver with two others.
The Olympic qualification mark (2.28m) happens to be better than the National record of 2.25m set by Roy in 2004.
Vijay Kumar of Haryana, who came into prominence with his 7106-point gold-winning performance at the Kolkata Open last year, won the decathlon title, upstaging former National champion P.J. Vinod (6488).
P. Kunhumohammed asserted his supremacy once again in the men's 400 metres, winning in 46.67s, well clear of S.K. Mortaja who timed 47.77s.
The Kerala man, in Chhattisgarh colours, could not however, better his PB of 46.58s clocked in the last GP meet here.
On a windy day, any hope that M.A. Prajusha could have nursed of making the Olympic grade in long jump was swept away. She had a best of 6.13m on her second jump, did 6.03 next and had four fouls in her sequence. The qualification mark stands at 6.65m.

The results: Men: 400m: P. Kunhumohammed (Cht) 46.67s, S.K. Mortaja (Ben) 47.77, 3. Bibin Mathew (Jkd) 47.87; 1,500m: 1. Sandeep Karan Singh (Har) 3:46.71, 2. Ravinder Singh Rautela (Ukd) 3:47.17, 3. Chatholi Hamza (Ker) 3:47.25. High jump: 1. Jithin Thomas (Ker) 2.20m, 2. Hari Sankar Roy (Jkd),  Chethan B. (Kar) and Jagdeep Singh (ONGC) 2.05; Decathlon: 1. Vijay Kumar (Har) 7152, 2. P.J. Vinod (Ker) 6488, 3. Kushwaha Chandrahas (UP) 6420.
Women: 400m: 1. M.R. Poovamma (ONGC) 53.70s, 2. Debashree Majumdar (Ben) 55.45, 3. Ratandeep Kaur (Pun) 56.01; Long jump: 1. M.A. Prajusha (Ker) 6.13m, 2. Shradha B. Ghule (Mah) 5.94, 3. Neena V. (Ker) 5.91; Shot put: 1. Patwant Kaur (Pun) 13.67m, 2. Smritikana Manna (Ben) 13.41, 3. Manjit Kaur (Pun) 13.09.

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21st April 2012
11th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championship - Final Selection Trials

The final selection of the Kerala State Boys Under 20 team for the 11th Federation Cup National junior Athletics Championship will be conducted  on 23/04/2012 at Maharajas College Stadium, Kochi. Trials will be held for the following events:

Boys Under 20
100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 110m H, 400m H, Long Jump, Triple Jump, and High Jump
Those who have already given their entry may report at Maharajas College Stadium, Kochi on 23rd April 2012 at 9 am

17th April 2012