After four days of sweat and toil, it was party time for the Haryana boys and girls as they retained the overall title with a tally of 411 points in the 38t Junior National athletics championship which concluded at the Nehru Stadium here on Friday. Tamil Nadu, with 362 points, had to rest content for the second spot.
Earlier, Nishant Karhana did not sweat much on his way to a record-breaking run in the boys under-16 2000m. His 5:27.02 erased the existing National mark of 5:28.28s set by Amit Chaudhary in 2021.
Vikas Kumar Bind (Madhya Pradesh), Ravi Yadav (Chandigarh) and Shekhar Choudhary (Delhi), the top three finishers in the boys under-18 3000m bettered the meet mark of 8:25.15s set by Anuj Mathur last year.
