07-Sep-2021 0
Cuttack athletes Swadhin Kumar Majhi and Kishore Kumar Jena won one gold medal each with New State Record in mens high jump and javelin throw respectively on the opening day of the 68th Odisha State Senior Athletics Championship at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar today.
Majhi created established the New State Record, clearing a height of 2.07 metre. He shattered the 25-year-old previous record of 2.06 metre, held by Sunil Kumar Azad, who had achieved it at Kolkata in 1996.
Jena, en exmployee of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) broke his own State Record, throwing the spear to a distance of 76.41 metre. In the process, he bettered his previous record of 72.77 metre, achieved at Cuttack in 2017 and pocketed the gold medal.
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