Sports Minister of Govt. of India Shri Sunil Dutt declared the meet close while Suresh Kalmadi, President- AFI distribute the prizes to the winners. Before final prize distribution 1500 school kids from Ryan Group of Schools performed Welcome song in front Grace Pinto, Director of Ryan Gruop of schools and other dignitaries.
                   

 Overall Championship went to Indian Railways who is dominating Indian Athletics Scenario for last 15 years  while Services with no female lifted Men's title. Indian Railways also won women's team championship. Piyush Kumar and V S Surekha were declared the best male and female athletes of the championship respectively. Due to lack of entries both relays in the women section were cancelled.                      
Sunita Kumari (800, 1500) of Delhi and Jagananth Lakade (5000, 10000) of services added one more gold to their tally.

It was also good day for Maharashtra Athletes where Sushanth Bangera jumped to his personal best of 15.59m finishing on the second place. Amarjeet Singh won the men triple jump with 15.97 (+3.0). Former Open National Champion Sarita patil settled on the silver in the women high jump. While Vaishali Chatre (women -10000m) and Basuraj C D (men-3000msc)  won bronze medals. They were awarded with cash incentives.

Today' biggest upset was seen in the women 200m final where Manjeet Kaur  finished well ahead of National Record Holder Saraswati Saha signaling her entry in the short sprint events.
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(K. C. Ramu of Service won the Marathon event of the Open National held at TRIVENDRUM on Sept 11 with 2::21:50 while Jaybhay D B also from Serivces finished second with 2::23:1. B S. Lone took bronze position with 2::24:12)

Mumbai, September 11: The second day of the Standard Chartered Open National Athletics Championship belonged to Karnataka’s B L Bharati, who set a new meet record in the grueling 3000m steeplechase for women at the Priyadarshini Park, here, on Saturday.
                   The 21-year-old Bharati, who came into the city only at 5.30 am in the morning after winning the All-India Universities 6km cross country title at Gulbarga, clocked 11.07.13 to set the new record.

Also sharing the spotlight, albeit on a smaller stage was Athens Olympian Neelam Singh, who won the discus throw for women from a lopsided field with a throw of 57.21 mtrs, way below the meet record of 61.17 set by herself in September. The throw was also much below the mark of Seema Antil’s 64.84.
    Sunita Kumar of Railways bagged a creditable double, adding the 800m title to the 1500 m crown she won on the first day. Kumari held off a strong late surge from Punjab’s Tejinder Kaur to win in 2:13.05 minutes.

The fastest man of the meet, Piyush Kumar anchored Indian Railways to victory in the men’s 4x100m relay in 40.63 seconds.

Also in action today were Olympians Soma Biswas and Satti Geetha, who ran away with the 100m hurdles and 400m titles, winning in 14.24 and 53.81 seconds respectively

Below par performances were the order of the second day too, with none of the winners coming anywhere close to the record books. Athletes from Indian Railways continued to dominate the proceedings winning titles in the men’s pole vault, men’s 20km walk, women’s 5000m run, women’s 100m hurdles, women’s 400m run, men’s 3000m steeplechase, women’s 800m run and the men’s 4x100m relay for men. Click here for the results>>

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