Thiruvananthapuram tops medal tally at school sports meet
KOCHI: At the end of the fourth day of the 21st Kerala State School Sports Meet, which saw athletics getting under way at Ernakulam Maharaja’s College ground in Kochi on Thursday, Thiruvananthapuram continued to dominate the points tally.
Thiruvanathapuram tops in the overall score with 1,561 points, followed by Thrissur district with 596 points and Kannur with 551 points.
A total of 27 meet records (23 in aquatics and 4 in athletics) have been broken since the start of the sports meet.
In the track and field events, the first record fell when Muhammed Ameen M P of KKMHSS Cheekode in Malappuram sped to the finish line clocking 8:37:69.
The others who broke the meet records in the sports meet were Mohammed Ashfaq of G V Raja Sports School in 400 m senior boys and Sivadev Rajeev of Mar Basil HSS Kothamangalam in pole vault senior boys category.
