Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 21: FICCI FLO JKL Chapter organized Marathon-24 Run4Health in collaboration with the University of Jammu and SMVD Narayana Hospital to raise funds for TB eradication in line with the PM’s call for “TB Mukt Bharat”. Over 850 runners from all walks of life participated in the half-marathon.
During the inaugural ceremony, the chief guest was Prof. Umesh Rai, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu who flagged off the event early in the morning from the University campus.
Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Ramesh Kumar, was the chief guest at the valedictory function and presented the medals to the winners including all-terrain bicycles sponsored by Munjal Auto. He lauded the participants for turning up in large numbers to support a noble cause. He also felicitated the large number of sponsors for the event.
Ansuya Jamwal, Additional DM, Jammu used the occasion to urge the participants to exercise their fundamental right to vote and highlighted the SVEEP initiative to energize the voters in the region.
Other dignitaries present in the event included Shishir Gupta, Additional District Magistrate, Jammu, Ajay Sharma, SP South, Jammu, Ayaz Natnoo, Deputy Director, Horticulture, Dr Dawood Iqbal Baba, Director Department of Physical Education, University of Jammu, M.M Mathavan, Facility Director, SMVD Narayana Hospital and Dr. J.P Singh, Neurologist, SMVD Narayana Hospital.
Ruchika Gupta, Chairperson, FICCI FLO JKL welcomed the dignitaries and outlined the motive behind organizing the marathon which received great support from the people of Jammu city. She declared that the proceeds from the marathon shall be donated for the welfare of TB patients, for their medication and nutrition needs.
The organizing Committee of the Run4Health marathon included Varuna Anand, Immediate Past Chairperson, FICCI FLO JKL, Arti Chowdhary, Senior Vice Chairperson, Varsha Bansal, Vice Chairperson, Sona Mehta, Treasurer, Pooja Gandotra, Joint Treasurer, Mona Saraf, Secretary, Nandita Bajaj, Joint Secretary, Kanupriya Garg, Executive Committee Member and Shipra Aggarwal, Member.
In the 21 Km half-marathon, overall winners were Ravi Dass and Rimpi Devi, winners in the Under 40 years category were Irfan Hafiz, Sukaran Raj Sharma and Sagar Suman among the males and Mamta Sharma, Palak Malih and Poonam Agarwal among the females. In the above 40 years category, Ram Raj, Ravinder Sharma and Dinesh Gupta bagged the first three positions respectively while in the female category Dr. Prateeksha Raghuvanshi emerged as the sole winner. In the 10 km marathon, Ritik Sharma and Sakshi Thakur emerged as overall winners in the male and female categories respectively.
Winners in the Under 40 year’s category were Anil Mehra, Manmeet Singh Atal and Sunit Kumar among males and Sonia Sharma, Madhu Sharma, Shreeja Slathia in the females category. In the above 40 years category Mangat Singh, Hemant Kumar Saini and Amit Yadav bagged the first three positions, while in the females, Neeti Dutt, Shalini Gupta and Sneha Saini finished in the top 3 respectively. In the 5 Km run, overall winners were Gurcharan Singh and Shamshad Bano. Winners in the Under 40 years category were Brij Bhushan, Hans Raj and Ajay Kumar among the males, while Anjali Rajpput, Sunakshi Thakur and Rachna Sharma emerged the winners among the females . In the above 40 years category, Makhan Lal, Kapil Arora and Abhishek Sharma finished in the top 3, while Anju Sharma, Enakshi Gupta and Sunita Bharti were the podium finishers among the females.
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