GAIL - The Fastest Indian results from Guwahati

Winners of the Fastest Indian – Guwahati leg

Heralding a new era in Indian athletics with the potential to produce Olympic-level sprinters, GAIL (India) Limited – India’s no-1 natural gas company- in association with Spoment today launched their 19th leg of ‘GAIL-The Fastest Indian’ here. The talent hunt has successfully passed through seventeen cities including Chandigarh, Kochi, Bangalore, Goa & Delhi; and has carried the momentum to several cities in the last couple of weeks.

This novel initiative is an attempt to find the next Milkha Singh for the country and is targeted at securing medals in athletics at Tokyo Olympics 2020. Legendary athlete ‘Padmashree’ Shri Milkha Singh, himself, is the principal mentor of this annual event. He will also provide his input and help in selecting and grooming potential winners.

Guwahati experienced the hunt hit the tracks on a very high energy note at the Sports Authority of India Compound, Paltan Bazaar. Following the welcome speech for the participants and dignitaries, the event saw a huge display of talent as enthusiastic students were eager to show off their athletic abilities with a few runners quite literally losing their shoes.

Nearly 300 tudents from different schools of the city and nearby areas participated in 100, 200 and 400 meter heats. The high spirited races were followed by the finals, which were held in the afternoon proceeding which the prize distribution commenced.

The event concluded with great aplomb as the participating parents and students applauded the initiative of the project and deemed it as the need of the hour as a majority of talent in India goes unrecognized due to lack of such competitive platforms.

GAIL-The Fastest Indian will identify, groom and develop champions who can win laurels for the country. Over the course of three months, GAIL-TFI talent hunt will conduct events across 19 cities reaching over 3,000 schools. Young boys and girls in the age group 12 to 14 years will get an opportunity to compete for the title of ‘GAIL-The Fastest Indian’. The Top 8 participants from across 19 cities in each category, based on their timings, shall qualify to take part in the National Finals, which will be attended by Milkha Singh.

The highlight of this initiative is that the winners of the finals will receive complete scholarship up to their post-graduation to focus on running and to motivate them. They would also receive specialized training from renowned national and international sports trainers.

Students willing to participate in GAIL-The Fastest Indian talent hunt can directly enroll themselves at www.thefastestindian.in and can get answers of all their queries by dialing at +91 9560121287.

The other partners who are making this dream possible include IFIM Business School (Academic partner) which is providing scholarships, Manipal Hospitals (Medical partner), sportskeeda.com (Digital media partner), Croma (Promotions partner), Fox Mandal (Knowledge partner), iCONGO(social justice partner), rightticket.in (Official partner), Yi (Out Reach partner) and Unibic (official cookie partner).

Results:

100 Meters – Boys			100 Meters - Girls
Position	Name	Time			Position	Name	Time
First	Kammei Poulonthui Kabui	12.05sec			First	Namruta Baruah	14.00sec
Second	Diku chetia	12.07sec			Second	Mayookhi Deka	16.01sec
Third	Sanju Doley	13.09sec			Third	Anjali Kumari	16.02sec
200 Meters – Boys			200 Meters - Girls
Position	Name	Time			Position	Name	Time
First	Navneet Kumar	24.06sec			First	Namruta Baruah	28.20sec
Second	Sandeep Kumar	25.05sec			Second	Stefi Tage	30.02sec
Third	Sanju Doley	26.02sec			Third	Neha Kumari	34.06sec
400 Meters – Boys			400 Meters - Girls
Position	Name	Time			Position	Name	Time
First	Navneet Kumar	54.06sec			First	Stefi Tage	1.19.80min
Second	Sandeep Kumar	56.07sec			Second	Neha Kumari	1.22.10min
Third	Jayanto	1.02.80min			Third	Priyanka Kumari	1.23.20min

Event Schedule:

S. No.	City	Date	S. No.	City	Date
1	Chandigarh	10-Oct-14	11	Hyderabad	17-Nov-14
2	Bhopal	13-Oct-14	12	Ranchi	21-Nov-14
3	Delhi	14-Oct-14	13	Mumbai	21-Nov-14
4	Ahmedabad	16-Oct-14	14	Patna	25-Nov-14
5	Jaipur	17-Oct-14	15	Lucknow	25-Nov-14
6	Ludhiana	30-Oct-14	16	Varanasi	28-Nov-14
7	Goa	31-Oct-14	17	Bhubaneswar	29-Nov-14
8	Rudrapur	4-Nov-14	18	Guwahati	4-Dec-14
9	Kochi	7-Nov-14	19	Chennai	TBA
10	Bangalore	11-Nov-14	20	FINALS -TBA	TBA