Bhubaneswar: Jyoshna Sabar won a bronze medal in the 400m hurdles on the concluding day of the U-18 National Youth Athletics Championship at Vadodara, Gujarat. This was the third medal for Odisha in the competition, the other two coming through Punga Soren (gold in 110m hurdles) and Manisha Merel (bronze in girls’ long jump).
Jyoshna clocked 1:05.82 seconds to finish on the podium behind Vishnu Priya (1:02.52s) of Kerala who set a new meet record to win the gold. The silver went to K Prajna (1:05.08s) of Karnataka.
However, it was a disappointing day for the Odisha girls’ medley team as they finished sixth. Sprinter Sukhi Baskey who had impressed in the heats by finishing first could not reproduce the same form and came eighth in girls’ 200m.
Cricket tourney
Indrani Chhatriya (4/37) and Shreya Karar (3/29) starred with the ball as East Zone scripted a thrilling one-wicket win Monday over West Zone in a match of Women’s Inter-Zonal one-day cricket tournament at Chennai.
Batting first, West Zone posted 168 runs for loss of nine wickets. Aditi Gaikwad (42) was the top scorer for West Zone while the others had no answer to the guile of Indrani and Shreya’s bowling.
In reply, East Zone reached the target with 10 balls to spare, but lost nine wickets. It was due to the efforts of top-scorer Gayatri Gurung (72) that East scraped through. However the failures of Odisha batswomen, Poonam Nayak (three) and Kajal Jena (six) continued. However, Kalpana Nayak (12 n o) contributed towards the end to take her side over the line.
