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Mohan, Beauty best again

Nat'I Athletics C'ships conclude

Sports Reporter
Old faces ruled the track on the concluding day of the Walton 37th National Athletics Championships as Mohan Khan and Nazmunnahar Beauty retained the title of fastest man and woman at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
Mohan, who had to be content with a silver medal after finishing behind Hafizul Islam in the Summer Meet in October last year, bounced back in the National Championships to retain the fastest man's tide at a time of 11.22 seconds (electronic).
The Armyman however, faced touch challenge from unheralded Kazi Shah Imran who took part in the national meet for the first time and narrowly missed the tide after timing 11.24 seconds while Mohan's teammate Khalilur Rahman finished third with a time of 11.25 seconds.
“After being beaten in the summer meet, I set my target to win the 100m gold in the national championships. To fulfil my target, I have been training for the last three and a half months and which paid dividends,” said Mohan in his instant reaction.
The lad from Khagrachori is now dreaming of doing better in the next South Asian Games and he believes he would have to work harder as well as improve on his timing. Today’s time was 0.06 seconds slower than his timing in the last national tide.
However, Shah Imran's emergence as a threat to Mohan's throne bodes well for athletics overall. The 20-year old sprinter from Narail expressed his satisfaction at his performance.
“I am happy to finish second as it was my first participation at the national level,” said the second-year honours student who was picked by BJMC coach Muradul Islam two years ago in the junior meet where he became second in 200m sprint.
Meanwhile, in the absence of Shamsunnahar Chumki who has been suffering from back pain, Nazmunnahar Beauty had virtually no competition and won the women's 100m title for the seventh consecutive time. Beauty finished at a time of 12.62 seconds while BKSP's Papia Rani finished behind her at 12.83 seconds.
“Any win is special, no matter whether the first or the seventh. I am still enjoying running on the track as I love 100m sprint.”
Apart from the 100m sprints, Sumita Rani Das won the 110m hurdles for the ninth consecutive time at a time of 14.98 seconds while Asadul Islam won the 100m hurdles for the fifth at a time of 14.72 seconds. However, neither of the huddlers were close to their best timing. Sajib Hossain retained gold in high jump clearing two metres but Al Amin lost his gold in the long-jump as Firoz Sarker beat him with a jump of 7.11 metres, 0.11 meter more than what Al Amin managed. Al Amin also won the long-jump gold.
On the final day, Bangladesh Army won five gold medals to raise their tally to 15 gold, nine silver and nine bronze to become the champions followed by Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation who won five gold on the concluding day to finish with 11 gold, 15 silver and six bronze medals.
Bangladesh Navy finished third with four gold, two silver and five bronze while BKSP became fourth with one gold, six silver and two bronze medals.