Minhajuddin claims men's title at 8th State Cross Country Championship
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 02 2018:
The 8th State Cross Country Championship was organised successfully today by the Athletic Association of Manipur at Khuman Lampak.
Md Minhajuddin of LSA, Lilong won the men's competition title completing the 10 km run in 31 minutes 48.89 seconds while Ph Tony of HYC (33:53.11) and M Sunil of AMESSCO (34:27.73) finished second and third.
W Manoranjan of MPSC (35:46.12), S Ngouba of AMESSCO (35:58.24) and T Samungou of MPSC (36:32.93) were able to finish 3rd, 4th and the 6th respectively in the men's competition.
Md Sadique of LSA was also able to finish podium first in the U-20 men's event (8 km) taking a time of 24 minutes 24.17 seconds while K Bikram Meitei of HYC finished second clocking 24:25.58 and O Subata Singh of AMESSCO sealed the third place with a time of 25:46.39.The competition also saw W Lanthoiba of AMESSCO (25:50.76), Kamdev Sharma of KNSAA (26:36.62) and Ranajit Chongtham of LSA (27:12.96) finish 4th, 5th and 6th respectively.
Ksh Herojit of KNSAA won the U-18 men's (6 km) title finishing the course in 15:32.99.Md Sahidur Rahman took 15:39.14 to finish second in the competition while Md Edrish of SAI-RC finished third in this event taking 16:39.90 .
L Ingo of HYC (16:57.63), Md Nawaz Khan of LSA (17:12.31) and S Rexson Singh of HYC (18:15.43) were respectively able to claim the 4th, 5th and 6th place titles.
U-16 men's (2 km) title went to Y Arjit of YDC who finished the course in 5 minutes 44.59 seconds while Md Jahid Khan of PALYC finished second with a time of 5:46.63.M Sanajaoba Meitei of SAI-RC was able to finish podium third clocking at 6:10.84 while M Benjamin Khupzavel Zou of KNSAA (6:14.86) and Md Imtiyas Khan of LSA (7:25.59) sealed the 4th and the 5th place respectively.