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Madras University emerged the wide champions astatine the 85th All India Inter-University Athletics Championship 2025–26 by scoring 134 points portion Mangalore University emerged the runners up by scoring 109 points.
Mangalore University emerged the wide runners up astatine the 85th All India Inter-University Athletics Championship 2025–26 hosted by Alva’s Education Foundation and organised by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences that concluded connected Friday, January 16, astatine Moodbidri. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The event, organised by Alva’s Education Foundation and hosted by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) concluded connected Friday, January 16 astatine Moodbidri.
The apical 3 positions successful the men’s conception were bagged by Madras University (74 points), Mangalore University (60) and Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (29). In the women’s section, Chandigarh University (67), Madras University (47) and Mangalore University (38) finished first, 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The Best Athlete Awards were won by Pooja of Lovely Professional University (High Jump) successful the women’s class and by Mohan Raj of University of Madras, Chennai (Triple Jump) and Vihvendra Singh of Punjab RIMT University (20 km Walk) successful the men’s category.
Valedictory Ceremony
Giving distant the prizes astatine the valedictory ceremonial connected Friday, Moodbidri MLA Umanath A Kotian said Alva’s team, nether the enactment of M. Mohan Alva, is susceptible of organising sports events adjacent astatine planetary levels. The palmy behaviour of the All India Championship should pave the mode for much specified events to beryllium organised successful Moodbidri.
Competition Observer U. V. Shankar congratulated the Alva’s squad for the palmy organisation of the championship, stating that it was a large accomplishment of some Alva’s and the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.
He further said that the Athletics Federation of India expresses its gratitude to Dr. Mohan Alva not lone for this championship, but besides for his wide publication toward promoting sports. Calling it the champion athletics conscionable helium had witnessed, helium noted that galore athletes travel from economically weaker backgrounds and that the currency prizes announced by Alva’s would beryllium a important enactment to them.
Former curate Abhayachandra Jain, Foundation Managing Trustee Vivek Alva and others were present.
Meet records
The Championship saw 5 conscionable records being acceptable by athletes to whom the Foundation gave distant ₹25,000 currency prize. They are, Mangalore University Team successful 4*400 m run; Sam Vasanth of Coimbatore Bharatiyar University successful 100 m run, Kuldip Yadav from ITM University, Gwalior successful Pole-vault, Pooja from Lovely Professional University successful precocious leap and Tanya Chaudhary from Chandigarh University successful hammer throw.
