THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Akhila Raju of GHSS Cheemeni, Kasaragod rewrote the meet record as she clinched the senior girls' discus throw gold breaking the 12-year-old meet record in the 64th Kerala State School Athletics at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. Two more meet records were erased on the opening day of the meet by Sivadev Rajeev of Mar Basil, Kothamangalam, and Anupriya VS of GCSG HS Elampachi, Kasaragod, who won gold in the junior boys' pole vault and junior girls' shot put respectively.
Akhila, with an effort of 43.40m, broke the record set by Neena Elizabeth Baby of Mar Basil HSS, Kothamangalam in 2010. Ashly Thresia of Lutheran HSS South Aryad, Alappuzha won the silver with an effort of 34.31m while Arpitha John of St Augustine's GHSS, Kothamangalam won the bronze.