GAIL - The Fastest Indian: Results and report from Hyderabad

Winners of the Fastest Indian event in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, November 17th, 2014

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 11th leg of ‘GAIL-The Fastest Indian’ here. The talent hunt has successfully passed through ten cities including Chandigarh, Kochi, Bangalore, Goa & Delhi; and will be carrying this momentum to more cities across the country in the next 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.

Hyderabad saw the hunt take off on a remarkable momentum at Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana. 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.

More than 600 students from 28 schools and 8 Ngo’s 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.

Here are the results of the Fastest Indian event in Hyderabad.

100 Meters – Boys			100 Meters - Girls
Position	Name	Time	Position	Name	Time
First	Hari Krishna	12.02sec	First	Manvi	13.55sec
Second	Rahul	12.43sec	Second	P. Vasavi	13.75sec
Third	Devendar	12.76sec	Third	Yamuna	13.84sec
200 Meters – Boys			200 Meters - Girls
Position	Name	Time	Position	Name	Time
First	Hari Krishna	24.52sec	First	Yamuna	29.48sec
Second	Rahul	25.94sec	Second	P. Vasavi	29.62sec
Third	Devendar	26.22	Third	Manvi	30.00sec
400 Meters – Boys			400 Meters - Girls
Position	Name	Time	Position	Name	Time
First	Durga Rao	57.98sec	First	B. Bindhu	1.07.39minutes
Second	D. Satish	59.63	Second	A.Keerthi	1.08.52minutes
Third	Sridhar	1:02:46minutes	Third	K.. Srisha	1.08.72minutes

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 on December 14, 2014 in Bengaluru.

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).