Guwahati, Feb 9 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh's Munita Prajapati came into her own in scripting a new national record in the under-20 women's 10,000m race walk with a fine victory on the penultimate day of the 36th National Junior Athletics Championships at the Sarusajai Stadium here on Tuesday. It helped her overcome the pain of being beaten to third place a fortnight ago.

Munita's time of 47 minutes 53.58 seconds earned the record from Reshma Patel who pegged the mark at 48:25.90 secs while winning the Federation Cup Junior under-20 Athletics Championships gold in Bhopal on January 26 this year. Munita, a 19-year-old from Varanasi, won a race in which the top five finishers bettered the meet mark of 49:16.51 sec set by Priyanka Goswami in 2014.

The 16-year-old Reshma Patel, who competed in the under-18 category here, could only watch from the sidelines as Munita improved on record and became the first Indian under-20 woman race walker to clock a sub-48 minute time over the distance. It was clear that she took to the track on Tuesday having doubled her resolve after she finished third in Bhopal.

Khyati Mathur's show at the high jump pit also caught the eye. Having recovered from a knee injury, the Meerut girl showcased her determination with a personal best leap over the bar at 1.77m. Training at Patiala's National Institute of Sports over the past couple of months, she was confidence personified and added the girls' under-18 gold to the under-16 titles that she won in 2016 (1.62m) and 2017 (1.63m).

Having surfaced in the National Inter-District Junior Athletics Meet in Visakhapatnam in 2015 when she cleared 1.44m to win the under-14 event, she kept improving. For years, her father Vishal Mathur would help her by tracking high jump videos on YouTube but with sound training now, she was able to make her mark on the national stage one more time.

Results (finals):
Under-20
Men
800m: 1 Sree Kiran (Tamil Nadu) 1:52.19; 2. S Nagarjunan (Tamil Nadu) 1:53.52; 3. Sumit Kharab (Haryana) 1:54.23.
Shot Put: 1. Aniket (Uttarakhand) 18.81m; 2. Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal (Punjab) 18.75; 3. Niket (Haryana) 17.68.
Discus Throw: 1. Ashish Kumar (Haryana) 54.79m; 2. Harnoor Singh Sandhu (Punjab) 52.65; 3. Aniket (Uttarakhand) 52.01.
Women
800m: 1. Pooja (Haryana) 2:07.96; 2. Ashakiran Barla (Jharkhand) 2:09.77; 3. Megha (Haryana) 2:15.07.
10000m Race Walk: 1. Munita Prajapati (Uttar Pradesh) 47:53.58 (New National and Meet Records. Old National Record: 48:25.90, Reshma Patel, Bhopal, 2021; Old Meet Record: 49:16.51, Priyanka Goswami, Vijayawada, 2014); 2. Baljeet Kaur Bajwa 48:19.88; 3. Roji Patel (Uttarakhand) 48:23.93.
Triple Jump: 1. P Babisha (Tamil Nadu) 12.31m; 2. Poorva Hitesh Sawant (Maharashtra) 12.24; 3. Sharvari Avinash Parulekar (Maharashtra) 12.17.
Javelin Throw: 1. Jyoti (Haryana) 45.17m; 2. Minu Soren (Bihar) 42.16; 3. Ujala Kumari Singh (West Bengal) 41.70.
Under-18
Boys
800m: 1. Pradeep Senthilkumar (Tamil Nadu) 1:54.68; 2. Shyam Milind Bind (Madhya Pradesh) 1:55.03; 3. Vishanu Kumar (Haryana) 1:55.37.
Girls
800m: 1. Riya Nitin Patil (Maharashtra) 2:12.16; 2. Aakancha Kerketta (Tamil Nadu) 2:13.84; 3. Urvashi (Haryana) 2;14.91.
High Jump: 1. Khyati Mathur (Uttar Pradesh) 1.77m; 2. Roshna Augustine (Kerala) 1.68; 3. Shravani Ramachandra Desvale (Maharashtra) 1.64.
Javelin Throw: 1. Ramyashree Jain (Karnataka) 44.46m; 2. Sonali Santhosh Pawar (Maharashtra) 39.51; 3. Sakshi (Haryana) 38.38.
Under-16
Boys
300m: 1. Deepak Singh (Haryana) 34.78 seconds; 2. Ritik Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh) 35.16; 3. Pijush Ghosh (West Bengal) 35.65.
800m: 1. Adarsh Kumar Maurya (Madhya Pradesh) 1:58.72; 2. Abhishek Pal (Uttar Pradesh) 1:58.92; 3. Bopanna Kalappa Thelapanda (Karnataka) 1:59.28.
High Jump: 1. Kothuri Pranay (Telangana) 1.89m; 2. Atharv Shrikant Dhaj (Maharashtra) 1.86; 3. Dhritisman Gowami (Assam) 1.86.
Javelin Throw: 1. Karan Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 63.76m; 2. Himanshu Mishra (Madhya Pradesh) 57.20; 3. Alok Aham (Bihar) 52.42.
Girls
300m: 1. Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland (Karnataka) 40.11 seconds; 2. Soumita Paul (West Bengal) 40.15; 3. Roshani Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 40.94.
800m: 1. Laxita Vinod Sandiela (Gujarat) 2:15.11; 2. Priyanka Madivalappa Olekar (Karnataka) 2:16.86; 3. CS Keerthi (Tamil Nadu) 2:20.60.
3000m Race Walk: 1. Vaishnavi Negi (Uttarakhand) 14:35.60; 2. Shashi (Punjab) 16:30.78; 3. Miya Rose (Kerala) 17:00.31.
Monday's result:
Under-16 Boys Long Jump: 1. Chandrasekhar (Uttar Pradesh) 6.84m; 2. Dadan Kumar (Delhi) 6.81; 3. Kothuri Pranay (Telangana) 6.68

--IANS qma/