September 30, 2016 7:12 PM

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Services clinch overall title at National Athletics

Curtains came down on the 56th Athletics Open Nationals in Lucknow today with the Services emerging as the overall champions. The highlight of the final day's action was a surprise win in triple jump by the Airforce Sergent Malkit Singh that sealed the gold. In the morning, distance runners Suriya Loganathan and G Lakshmanan claimed their second gold medals through 10,000 metres victory. Ace Karnataka sprinter H M Jyothi added the 200 metres gold to her earlier win in 100 metres.Teammate Reena George claimed a silver in this event also. Middle distance star Ajay Kumar Saroj was the other athlete to win a double through 800 metres, upsetting top class runners today. His first win came in 1500 metres.

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