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Ambia, Firoza still fastest

Sports Reporter
Golam Ambia, the fastest man of the country, retained his reputation as just one new record was set on
Day Three of the athletics championships of tht fifth Bangladesh Games at the Army Stadium yesterday.
The Olympian sprinter of Bangladesh Army took 10.6 seconds while the bespectacled veteran Shah Jalal Mobtn of Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation (BTMC). another Olympian, finished second clocking 10.7 sec to take the silver. Bimal Chandra Taraldar. Mobin's BJMC teammate, took a similar time to complete the dash but was stellenbosched to the third place following the poor manual systerti of recording time.
No surprises were there In the women's 100m event as Firoza Khatoon remained the country's sprint queen clocking 12.4 sec. The champion BTMC runner was followed closely by Rehana Parveen of Customs who took the silver for her effort in 12.5 sec. BJMC's lanky Nilufar Yasmin bagged the bronze requiring 12.7 sec.
Imran AH defied the general pattern of the day by taking the gold in the men's discus. He cleared a distance of 40.42 m. discernlbly farther than the 39.66m effort of Army's Lnk Shafiqul Islam who claimed' the silver. Rownakul Islam of Customs was measured at
39.38m and had to settle for the bronze.
Army's all too familiar dominance in the track and field events was actuated in the 400m where Giasuddfn crossed the distance In 48.1 ‘ sec to fintsh ahead of BJMC's Mehdi Hassan, another member of the Bangladeshi contingent to the 25th Summer Games In Barcelona, who clocked 48 J sec for the silver medal.
Lnk Farid Khan Chowdhury of Army took 49 sec to manage the bronze.
The soldatesque waxing continued as Jahangir Alam of Army climbed a height of 4.05m In the pole vault, good enough to earn him a gold. His teammate Rezaul Haq with a height of 3.95m came second while Molazzal Hossain of Navy took the bronze gong for his feat of cleaning 3.60m.
Army, who raised their tally of gold medals to 13 following yesterday's exploits, had one more of the same metal In their kilty when Solaiman Majumdar took 14.5 sec to ensure the gold In the men's 110m hurdles.
Wazlur Rahman of BTMC, the champion hurdler of yore, and Faruq Ahmed Khan of Navy were clocked, at 15 sec each, but the former had the good luck of being judged second. A disconsolate Faruq Ahmed Khan had to take the bronze.
The gold medal for the triple jump went to army's Nazrul Islam. He covered 15m while h1s nearest rival teammate Alcfuddin got the silver having jumped 14.74m. The saltation feat of BAF’s Flrdous was measured al 14.15 and the bronze medal went to the airman's kitty.
Army won the gold in the men's 4X400m relay taking 3:16.2 sec. Navy came second clocking 3:21. sec while the Ansars and VDP equip were third, having required 3:22.5 seconds.
In the morning, Aslam Khan
of Ansars and VDP took the gold in the marathon. His painstaking, lonely toil under the sun lasted 2:24:14. 5 sec.
Abdul Khaleq of Army took the silver, reaching the mark in 2:24:16 sec while his teammate Yunus Alt, who set a 20-km walk record on Sunday, took 2:29:46. 8 sec to bag the bronze.
BJMC women's relay quartet comprising Nllufar, Nast ma. Lubna and Juthi made the officials do some scribbling when they clocked 3:59:6 sec in the 4x400m relay. Their feat dismantled the old record of 4:1.0 seconds.
The Ansars and VDP team needed 4:15.7 sec to earn the silver while the Customs quartet finished third having taken 4'34:6 sec.
Bangladesh Army reigned supreme at the end of the third day of the four day long meet which ends today. They were at the top of the medals table with 13 golds, 12 silvers and five bronzes. BJMC were a distant second with five golds, three silvers and seven bronzes. BTMC were in the third slot having collected-three golds, three silvers and as many bronzes.
MEDALS TABLE’
G S B T B Army 13 12 5 20
BJMC 5 3 7 15
BTMC 3 3 3 9
B Navy 3 13 7
Ansars 1 2 2 5
Rajshahi U 1 0 0 I
Customs SC 0 4 4 8
B Air Force 0 12 3