11-Apr-2022 0
Double Olympian Dutee Chand and young Bhubaneswar sprinter Aryan Ekka were crowned as the best female and male athlete respectively in the 68th Odisha State Athletics Championship, which concluded at KIIT & KISS Athletics Stadium in Bhubaneswar today.
Dutee created New Meet Record in women 200m sprint, clocking 23.7 seconds. She bettered the previous record of 24.2 seconds. Representing KIIT, Dutee also bagged a double, winning both the 100m and 200m gold medals.
Aryan, a trainee of Reliance Foundation Odisha Athletics High Performance Centre, also clinched a double, winning both the U-20 boys 100m and 200m gold medals with New Meet Records.
He rewrote the 200m meet record with a timing of 22.0 seconds and erased the previous record of 22.1 seconds today. He had broken the 100m meet record earlier on April 9.
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