Haryana's Sandeep Kumar won the gold medal in the men's 20000m race walk on Day 2 of the National Inter State Championships atletics meet, here today. He was closely followed by Rajasthan's Jitendra Singh (1:27:04.32s) and Baljinder Singh (1:29:38.72s) of Punjab, who finished third. Odiya sprinter Amiya Kumar Mallick won the men's 200m run in 21.65s. The West Bengal athlete was followed by Abitha Mary Manuel (2:06.19s) of Kerala and Sipra Sarkar (2:07.48s) of West Bengal. Kerala star Jinson Johnson bagged the men's 800m gold with a timing of 1:47.38s.

Source: dna July 16, 2017 16:18 UTC