Uttar Pradesh’s Munita Prajapati created a national record in the under-20 women’s 10000m race walk event on way to winning gold on the penultimate day of the 36th National Junior Athletics Championships at the Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati on Tuesday.
Prajapati clocked 47 minutes 53.58 seconds to erase the earlier national record of 48:25.90, held by Reshma Patel, and became the first Indian under-20 woman race walker to clock a sub-48 minute time over the distance.
Munita Prajapati, a 19-year-old from Varanasi, had finished third in the same event in the Federation Cup Junior U-20 Athletics Championships last month in Bhopal, where Patel had won gold with a time of 48:25.90.
Uttar Pradesh girl Khyati Mathur’s show at the under-18 high jump pit also caught the eye. Having recovered from a knee injury, the Meerut girl produced a personal best leap of 1.77m to win the gold medal.
Training at NIS Patiala over the past couple of months, she was confidence personified and…