Udupi: Enthusiastic Crowd Gathers for Half Marathon - Sandeep, Vijayamala Win Big
 
Hemanath Padubidri
Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (RD)
 
Udupi, Apr 1: The Udupi Half Marathon - 2012, held on Sunday April 1 under the aegis of district Athletic Association and Syndicate Bank, witnessed huge and enthusiastic participation from people of all ages.
 
Manipal University chancellor Dr Ramdas Pai flagged off the marathon at Syndicate Bank head office premises, Manipal, here on Sunday morning.

The route passed through Tiger Circle, Manipal University, End Point junction, Perampalli road, Ambagilu, NH66, Nittur, Abharana Motors, Karavali Junction, Bannanje, SP Office, Government hospital, Big Bazaar, Diana Circle, Kidiyoor Hotel, Kalsanka, Doddangudde, Sharada Residentional School, MGM and Indrali before terminating at the starting point.

Sandeep Kumar of Alva's College, Moodbidri and Vijayamala Patil from Mumbai bagged the first prize of Rs 50,000 in men’s and women’s division of 21-km half marathon.

Borappa and Neeraj Pal Singh of Alva's College bagged the second and third prizes respectively in men’s division, while Prinyanka Singh Patil from Bangalore and Rajani from Indira Gandhi College, Sagar bagged the second and third prizes respectively in women’s division.
 
Ashraf of Nitte College, Karkala won the first prize in the 10-km race in the under-20 category, Manjunat Nayak and Girish Shetty of Nitte College secured the second and third prizes respectively.
 
Kirti of Sanjay Gandhi High School, Ampar bagged the first prize, and Swati the second prize and Jyoti of Government Junior College, Hiriyadka the third prize in the girl's division.
 
Sharat of SMS Pre-University College, Brahmavar came first in under-17 category 5-km track event for boys.  Manjunat of Vivek College, Kota and Kiran Kamat of Poornaprajna College, Udupi came second and third respectively.
 
Jyoti of Perdoor High School bagged the first prize in girls division, while Chaitanya of Sanjay Gandhi High School, Ampar and Kanti of Perdoor High School won the second and third prizes respectively.
 
Kiran of Perdoor High School secured the first prize in 3 km race of 14 years age group of boys, while Anil Kumar of Vivek High School, Kota and Raghavendra of Perdoor High School won the second and third prizes respectively.
 
Sumati of Government Higher Primary School, Santekatte came first in girls division. Kavita of Perdoor High School and Pratika of Sanjay Gandhi High School, Ampar came second and third.
 
Narayan Prabhu won the first prize in men’s category in 3-km race in the 35-59 year age group. Police Shankar of Udupi bagged the second prize, while Sankappa Kanchan Udyavar and G Sridar Manipal tied for the third place.
 
Jyoti V Shetty of Parorami Group of Companies won the first place in women’s division, while Arunakala S Rao Udupi and Sulata Kamat Katpady secured the second and third prizes.
 
Y Kumaraswamy of Kabbinale bagged the first prize in the 3 km race for senior citizens above 60 years. Wesley Karkada Udupi and K L Patil Mysore bagged the second and third prizes. Vasudha, the lone participant bagged the prize in women’s division.
 
Syndicate Bank officer Muralidharan and Chandrashekar Hegde were felicitated on the same occasion.
 
Syndicate Bank officer Subramanya, Dr H S Ballal, SP Boralingayya, zilla panchayat CEO Prabhakar Sharma, DySP Prabhudev Mane, S K Abrol, Anita Tantri, Purushottam Shetty, Goutam Pai, MLA Raghupati Bhat, Kiran Kumar, Yashpal Suvarna, Balakrishna Hegde, Jayaram Suvarna, Dinesh Kumar, Roshan Kumar Shetty, Rajeevalu, Arun Kumar Rao were present at the occasion.