Sunday, June 26, 2011

Indian Inter-State Track and Field Championships 5km, 10km Women

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If you are keen and have queries, please contact Coach Rameshon at 9100 4369 or you can email him at m.rameshon@gmail.com or swift.rameshon@gmail.com. Please refer to website http://flexifitness.com.sg (for more information on him and his programmes)

By Rameshon
Bsc (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Loughborough University (1992-1994)
Masters in Education (University of Western Australia, 2005-2008)

Women 5000m Open
12th June 2011

 
10000m Women Open Race
In the 10000, the Asian Games Gold medallist Preeja Sreedharan clocked 34:33.48 ahead of training partner Kavita Raut, who lost out by 34min 33.54sec Tamil Nadu's Surya Loganathan came in third in a time of 35:27.18.

Preeja and Kavita had finished one-two in 10,000m in the Asian Games last November while the latter had also bagged a bronze in the Commonwealth Games.

5000m Women  -  13th June 2011
Kavita Raut of Maharashtra holds off Women’s 5000 meters national record holder, Preeja Sreedharan of Kerala and unknown Tamilian L Surya to claim the gold in the 51st Inter-State athletics championships on 13 June 2011.

Surya showed determination by trying to challenge the two elite athletes until the last hundred metres final stretch. Surya gave a stiff challenge to Kavita who was trying to break away. Preeja did not react fast to Kavita sudden surge in speed.

Surya, got silver while Kavita got gold in a time of  17:00.59 seconds. Preeja who has a personal best time of 15:15.89 in 2010 had to settle for 17:01.22, although she feels that it is the beginning of the season. Winner Kavita told that she is not used to synthetic track surface and she needs time to get adjusted running on it.



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By Narayanan
Rameshon has taught in Hwa Chong Institution, plus several schools, and Republic Polytechnic as well. He has won many accolades and he was awarded Merit Award for 1991 marathon performance in breaking the national record of Singapore, at that time. He has made 22 male athletes do a marathon in sub-3hrs. He has made 7 female runners do sub-4 hours for the marathon, as well. He was inducted to the ‘Roll of Honour’  by the then College of Physical Education, organised by Singapore Olympic Academy, in 1998, for breaking the National record repeatedly 4 times, till he did 2hr 24min 22sec).

He also has a Coaching group and he trains them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7pm at Botanic Gardens. Those interested can call him at 91004369 for coaching assistance, to improve performance. There is also personal training that he does for many in a week. You can e-mail him at swift.rameshon@gmail.com.