New Delhi, Feb 1 (UNI) Tamil Nadu’s C Praveen hoping to complete a golden double was pipped at the post by Haryana’s Bhupender Singh in long jump while javelin thrower Vikas Yadav of Maharashtra won his gold medal with a best throw of 75.02m on an exciting day’s competition in the first Khelo India School Games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Praveen joined sprinter-jumper Ancy Sojan and jumper Sandra Babu as double medallist. While Praveen won gold in triple and silver in long jump, Ancy Sojan won a gold in long jump and silver in 200m in a single day and Sandra won silver medals in long and triple jumps.
Long jumper Bhupender produced the two best jumps of the day of 6.99m and 7.04 metres in his last two attempts, while Praveen was left stranded at 6.93m and a silver medal. A day earlier Praveen had won the triple jump.