The 13th edition of the Rotary Belagavi Half Marathon was conducted successfully on Sunday, 11 Feb 2024 with the theme ‘Say No to Drugs’ by the Rotary Club of Venugram Belagavi in association with Rotaract Club of Venugram, Belagavi. Over 2000 runners from all over India participated in the Race for all age categories. The event was flagged off by Dr. Ravi Patil of Vijaya PU College & Brigadier Joydip Mukherjee of Maratha Light Infantry.
Shrikant B & Neera Purohit won the Half Marathon race in the Men’s & Women’s Division respectively.
The 10 Km Race was won by Aniket Khade in the Men’s Division & Dr. Netra Manoj Sutar in the Women’s Division. The 5kms race was won by Manish Dalavi in the Men’s Division and Kranti Vetal in the Female Category.
The theme of the event was “Say No to Drugs”. All the runners took the pledge to Say No to Drugs and an awareness lecture was given by Dr. Bhimsen Tekkalki on the topic. The Race Director was Jagadish Shinde.
WINNERS LIST (PROVISIONAL)
HALF MARATHON (21.095 KMS)
MALE – UPTO 39 YEARS
1. Shrikant B
2. Ranjan Kuswad
3. Bhuwan Suyal
FEMALE – UPTO 39 YEARS
1. Navita Dikonda
2. Pooja Rajput
3. Arundhati Pote
MALE – 40-49 YEARS
1. Vinayak Jambotkar
2. Santosh Shanbhag
3. Rahul Porwal
FEMALE – 40-49 YEARS
1. Neera Purohit
2. Nupur Watave
3. Shivani Angolkar
MALE – 50 YEARS & ABOVE
1. Ranjit Kanbarkar
2. Kallappa Tirvir
3. Shivprasad Thakur
FEMALE – 50 YEARS & ABOVE
1. Nalini Padmanabharao
10KMS
MALE – UPTO 30 YEARS
1. Aniket Khade
2. Mubarak Dantli
3. Ajit Rathod
FEMALE – UPTO 30 YEARS
1. Nirvi Kalkuppi
2. Anastasia Carvalho
3. Shruti Chougule
MALE – 31-44 YEARS
1. Suresh Chougule
2. Babu Chougala
3. Kunal Allolli
FEMALE – 31-44 YEARS
1. Netra Sutar
2. Saniya Tahsildar
3. Kavita Ganiger
MALE – 45 YEARS & ABOVE
1. Parasram Kungi
2. Deepak Khatawkar
3. Aman Nadaf
FEMALE – 45 YEAR & ABOVE
1. Mayura Shivalkar
2. Nidhi Chougule
3. Sushma Bhat
5KMS
BOYS – UNDER 16 YEARS
1. Manish Dalvi
2. Abhishek Dalavi
3. Aryan Patil
GIRLS – UNDER 16 YEARS
1. Kranti Vetal
2. Srishti Panchariya
3. Aarna Asundi
MALE – 17-34 YEAR
1. Suraj Tikude
2. Ankit Kumar (1290)
3. Ankit Kumar (1291)
FEMALE – 17-34 YEARS
1. Divya Herekar
2. Sneha Bhosale
3. Samiksha Vetal
MALE – 35-44 YEARS
1. Basavaraj Huddar
2. Sannaparasappa
3. Chattar Bhausaheb Aba
FEMALE – 35-44 YEARS
1. Swapna Chitnis
2. Mrunal Watave
3. Sneha Vernekar
MALE – 45-54 YEARS
1, Vinayak Asundi
2. Vinay Patil
3. Morbale Vila
FEMALE – 45-54 YEARS
1. Rupa Niranjan
2. Reshma Porwal
3. Sujata Gaonkar
55 years and above Male
1. Yeshwant Parab
2. Balappa Mennikeri
3. Yashodhar Kotian
55 years & above female
4. Rajeshwari Balogi
5. Kirti Tembe
The organising committee comprised of President of Rotary Club of Venugram Mr. Sanjeev Deshpande, Event Chairmans Latesh Porwal, Lokesh Hongal and Somnath Kudchikar, Race Director Jagadish Shinde, Rotaract President Rohan Kadam & Rotaract Secretary Harshad Doshi.
Hearty congratulations to the winners and to their challengers.