SAAF Senior C’ships

RANCHI, Oct 25:

Eighteen-year-old Sanjana Singh claimed her second gold medal by winning the women’s 1500m as India scooped seven out of the 11 yellow metals on offer to dominate the proceedings on the second and penultimate day of the SAAF Senior Championships here on Saturday.

Sanjana clocked 4 minute, 25.36 seconds to beat Sri Lanka’s W K L Arachch Nimali (4:25.52) for the 1500m gold. The Rohtak girl had earlier won 5000m gold on the opening day on Friday..

Another Indian in the fray, Kajal Kanwade was third with 4:26.21.

“It was a good learning experience for me to compete with better runners,” said Sanjana, whose father is a Sub Inspector in Harayna Police.

Sri Lanka, however, ran away with both the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay gold medals, as India had to

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