Udupi, February 6: Rajashree Patil and Daasari Vasu, both from Alva's Moodabidri, have won the first prize, in the men's and women's category respectively, at the Syndicate Bank Udupi Half Marathon, on the theme 'Run for Sports', organized by Udupi District Athletic Association, here on Sunday.
Cine star Pooja Gandhi and Prakash Shetty of Banjara Group flagged off the race.
Higher Education Minister Dr VS Acharya, General Manager, Syndicate Bank, Corporate Office K Devananda Upadhyaya, Chairman of Alva's Education Foundation Dr Mohan Alva and Udupi MLA K Raghupathi Bhat gave away the prizes.
On the occassion international athlete Clifford Joshwa and sports patron Dr Mohan Alva were honoured.
Udupi CMC President Kiran Kumar, Zilla Panchayath CEO Rajashekhar and others were present.
In the men's category Daasari Vasu finished the 21 kilometer race in 1 hour 4 minutes and 39 seconds to win the first prize. Siddappa S from Chalukya Sports Badami (1:5:02) won the second prize and P Nagendra Rao from Alva's Moodabidri (1:6:52) won the third.
In the women's category Rajashree Patil from Alva's Moodabidri finishd the 21 km race in 1 hour 25 minutes and 42 seconds. Smitha C from Alva's Moodabidri (1:27:12) and Disna Malkanth, a Srilankan athlete (1:28:40) won the second and third prizes respectively.
Winners of the half marathon, both in men's and women's category bagged a cash prize of Rs 50,000, Rs 25,000 and Rs 15,000 respectively.
Results:
Senior citizen men's category (5 km): Duggappa Gowda from Panja, Sullia, Mohan B from Sirsi and KL Patil won the first, second and third prizes respectively. Women's category: Girija Balakrishna of Government High School Volakad won the first prize.
50-60 age group men's category (5 km): Joseph Francis Mangalore, Chandrashekhar K from Panja, Sullia and MM Ramayya from Anekal. Women's category: Arunakala S Rao, Sarojini Soans and Gladys Pais.
40-50 age group men's category: H Udaya Kumar Shetty, Srinivas Acharya Innanje and Vishwanath Tonse. Women's category: Sulatha Kamath Katapady and Ammanni KMC Hostel Manipal.
College Boys: Rajesh Moolya of Nitte Education Trust, Nitte, Rajesha of SRS first grade college Barkur and Prajwal Shetty of MPMC College Manipal.
College Girls:Jyothi of Govt PU College Hiriadka, Sumalatha and Sangeetha of Govt women's first grade college Udupi.
Under 16 boys: Kamalakara, SDM Ujire, Thrishool HN, Alva'a Moodabidri and K Narasimha Yasta, VPC Vitla.
Under 16 Girls: Likhita, Anusha and Suvarna S of of Alva's High School Moodabidri.
Under 14 boys: Prakash of Alva'a High School, Vishwanath of Sanjaya Gandhi High School, Ampar and Shashikanth of Sharada High School, Cherkadi.
Under 14 girls: Trisha D'Souza of District Sports Hostel Udupi, Harshitha of Alva's High School and Pavithra of Sanjay Gandhi High School, Ampar.
Under 12 boys: Prashanth and Umesh of Govt Hr Pr School Kalathoor, and Sudeep of District Sports Hostel Udupi.
Under 12 girls: Sumathi and Sumitra of Govt Hr Pr School Kalathoor and Amrutha of Govt Hr Pr School Padukudru, Karkala.
Bank Employees- Men: Ashoka of Corporation Bank Moodabidri, Devayya of Syndicate Bank Regional Office Udupi and Suresh Nayak of Syndicate Bank Head Office, Manipal. Women: Vanaja Prasad H of Syndicate Bank Kadekar and Mehtab T of Syndicate Bank Car Steet, Udupi.
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