Khelo India: Girls Athletics meet held at Samba

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

SAMBA, Dec 24: Under the aegis of Khelo-India, Sports for Peace and Development, exhilarating matches of District level were played at Sports stadium here today.
Today chief guest Tehsildar Samba, Aman Kumar Anand congratulated the winners and showered praises to all participants. Later Tehsildar distributed prizes among the winners and runners up.
In Athletics division today 100M race under 17 age category Tania Sharma, Vaishali Devi and Pritidevi came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively, in above 20 age category Tajinder Kour and Monika Chowdhary came 1st and 2nd respectively.
In 200 M race, under 17 yrs category, Shobha Devi, Shubam Sharma and Salima Begum came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively, in under 20 category Pritisharma won the event.
In Long Jump event under 17 Smriti Sharma, Shobha Devi and Madhuri Bhagat came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively, in under 20 category Rimpi Devi, Sonia Devi and Nikita Sharma came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.
In shotput under 17 age category Ritika, Monika and Poornima came came 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively, in under 20 age category Bhawani Devi, in above 20 category Jyoti Devi, Sandeep Kour and Luxmi Dogra emerged 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.
In Discus Throw under 17 age category, Ritika, Sarita and Shabnam Bibi got 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions respectively, in under 20 age category Sonika and Riya Salathia got 1st and 2nd places respectively and in above 20 age category Luxmi, Ritu and Seema got 1st, 2nd and 3rd places respectively.