Delhi sprinter Nisar Ahmed justified his decision to postpone a training trip to Jamaica, becoming the fastest runner at the Khelo India School Games on Friday with a 10.76s finish in the 100m.
Nisar, in fact, completed in 10.77s even as the recall whistle went off, only to be told that the actual race would be run after 20 minutes.
Avantika Narale of Maharashtra was the fastest girl, winning the 100m in 12.35s.
In shooting, Shahu Mane shot 247.7 to equal the National record in the youth category and take the gold in 10m air rifle.
Among the girls, Chandigarh's Zeena Khitta took gold ahead of Nandita Sul and Yana Rathore.
The results: Athletics: 100m: Boys: 1. Nisar Ahmed (10.76s); 2. Shashikanth VA (10.90s); 3. Govind Kumar (10.95s). Girls: 1. Avantika Narale (12.35s); 2. R. Giridharani (12.49s); 3. M. Santra Teresa Martin (12.61s).
800m: Boys: 1. Anu Kumar (1:52.08); 2. N. Sree Kiran (1:54.13); 3. Vaseem Tomar (1:55.78). Girls: 1. Tai Bamhane (2:13.37); 2. Priscilla Daniel (2:13.91); 3. A.S. Sandra (2:15.92).
3000m: Boys: 1. Vishal Makwana (8:48.79); 2. Sandeep Kumar (8:49.52); 3. Siddharth Phor (8:53.53). Girls: 1. Seema (10:15.15); 2. Antima Pal (10:18.19); 3. Kajal Shamu (10:22.56).
110m hurdles: Boys: 1. Punga Soren (14.12s); 2. Aditya Prakash (14.30); 3. G Nishanthraja (14.57s). Girls: 1. Aparna Roy (14.02s); 2. PM Tabitha (14.36s); 3. Pratibha Kumari (14.54s).
Discus: Boys: 1. Ikram Ali Khan (51.39m); 2. Dhanvir Singh (50.64m); 3. Nagendra Annappa Naik (50.01m). Girls: 1. Pooja (41.01m); 2. A. Jenci Susan (40.43m); 3. Nitika Verma (39.27m). High jump: 1. Shahnawaz Khan (2.01m); 2. Mandeep Nain (1.98m); 3. Suraj Kumar (1.90m). Girls: 1. Rubina Yadav (1.76m); 2. Gayathry Siva Kumar (1.65m); 3. S.B. Supriya (1.65m). Shooting: 10m air rifle: Boys: 1. Shahu Mane (247.7); 2. Rithik Ramesh (245.6); 3. Parth Makhija (225.0). Girls: 1. Zeena Khitta (251.6); 2. Nandita Sul (249.3); 3. Yana Rathore (227.2).
Swimming: 200m freestyle: Boys: 1. Neel Roy (1:57.73); 2. M. Vasuram (2:01.01); 3. Veer Khatkar (2:01.72). Girls: 1. Khushi Dinesh (2:12.00); 2. Annie Jain (2:12.76); 3. Aastha Choudhary (2:18.20).
50m butterfly: Boys: 1. D. Adithya (26.21s); 2. M. Arjun (26.64s); 3. Neel Roy (26.67s). Girls: 1. Kenisha Gupta (29.27s); 2. Suvana C. Baskar (30.09s); 3. Dolphi Sarang (30.86s).
100m breaststroke: 1. Maibam Mangalsana Meitei (1:08.04); 2. P.J. Jagan Nathan (1:09.27); 3. Tanish Kaswan Nayaasar (1:10.43). Girls: 1. Saloni Dalal (1:18.00); 2. Aaliyah Singh (1:18.18); 3. Sharon Shaju (1:18.33).
400m individual medley: 1. Advait Page (4:36.73); 2. Swadesh Mondal (4:51.22); 3. Aaryan Bhosale (4:52.69). Girls: 1. Firdoush Kayamkhani (5:21.33); 2. Shrungi R. Bandekar (5:34.14); 3. G. Saachi (5:36.49).
4x100m freestyle: Girls: 1. Delhi (4:12.24); 2. Karnataka (4:18.70); 3. Haryana (4:21.51).
