Ekta's Keshari Chaudhary created a stir in the field event of athletics. From junior to senior she continued to break records one after another. He used to dominate in high jump, long jump and triple jump. Many national records are in Keshari's name. The same Keshari's 18-year-old record was broken by Anisha Tharu at the Dasharath Stadium on Friday.

The record-breaking event is the triple jump. At the 15th President's Running Shield Games, Anisha set a new junior record with a jump of 11.27 meters. Keshari's record in this event was 10.80m, which she had set in 2064. Anisha was not even born at that time. Anisha has just turned 16. 

Coincidentally, their house is in the same municipality. That is Rapti Sonari Rural Municipality of Banke. The villages of both are adjacent to each other. Anisha, who grew up amidst Keshari's buzz, considered herself lucky to break his record. 

Keshari Didi was very popular in the village too. He was making one record after another. That also inspired me. I feel lucky to break my sister's record today,' said Anisha, thankful to Keshari.

This is the third time that Anisha, who has been involved in sports since her seventh grade, has played in the President's Running Shield at the central level. She won the triple jump gold last year. The record could not be made. She returned after winning gold in the relay in the previous edition. She played those two editions from Lumbini region. 

This year she represented the Bagmati region. Anisha studies at Laliguras National Academy in Manmanju in the capital. She is preparing for class 12 after finishing class 11. Because of that, she got an opportunity to play from Bagmati. 

4-4 gold winners Anisha and Praveen Ranamargarh of Bagmati region with medals.

This time Bagmati became the team champion in President Running Shield. Bagmati lifted the shield by winning 36 gold, 7 silver and 11 bronze. It includes 12 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals in athletics. Along with athletics, 686 players from seven provinces competed in 6 sports including volleyball, kabaddi, karate, wushu and taekwondo. 

Anisha set records not only in triple jump, but also in two relay events. She won gold in 4x100m (Anisha, Dina Gopali, Bhagwati Khadka and Suruchi Moktan) and 4x400m (Anisha, Dina, Bhagwati and Asmita Bhujel) with records. Anisha, who also won gold in long jump, was limited to silver in 400m race. Having won a total of 4 golds and 1 silver, her next goal is to set a senior national record. She says, 'Being an international player is cheating. You have to work hard for that.' 

9 out of 22 athletes participating in athletics from Bagmati were from Laliguras National Academy. Coaches Devi Basnet and Sitaram Chaudhary, who are training them, said that their players performed well in athletics in this running shield. Now coach Basnet expects them to give good performance in the senior event as well. Laliguras are also investing heavily in sports. Basnet says that players of various sports are being given scholarships to participate in training along with studies.

Pinju Chaudhary of Lumbini who challenged Anisha in the triple jump jumped 10.35 meters and Sarita Shahi of Karnali won the silver and bronze medals respectively with a jump of 10.13 meters. Like Anisha, Praveen Ranamar won 4 golds for Bagmati.

He won gold in 100m, 200m race, 4x100m and 4x400m relay. Praveen set national records in two events, the 100 and the relay. The Bagmati team of Sant Darai, Suvin Lama and Neeraj Shah along with Praveen set a record of 43.4 seconds in the 100m relay on Friday. They broke the record of 44.00 seconds set by Sujal, Sudeep Tharu, Tulsiram Chaudhary and Rohit Gupta in Lumbini in 2080. 

This time a total of 9 records were made in athletics. 10,000 prizes were awarded for each record. Vikas Budha from Sudurpaschim won gold in student triple jump. He jumped 13.73 meters. Vikram Nath of Far West was second and Avinash Sunar of Bagmati was third. Anil Shahi of Karnali won the 3000m race. He completed the race in 9 minutes 08.9 seconds. Amir Limbu of Koshi came second and Arvind Kumar Yadav of Lumbini came third. Devaki Dhami from Sudurpaschim won the gold in the women's category of the same event by finishing in 10 minutes and 52.9 seconds. Bagmati's Asmita Bhujel won silver and Karnali's Swastika Kathayat won bronze.

In the students' 200m race, Praveen came first, Subham Wamarel of Hulumbini came second and Sudeep Bhandari of Gandaki came third. Bagmati's Dina Gopali won the gold while Lumbini's Arushi Bhattarai was second and Gandaki's Anushka Adhikari was third.

Former champion Sudur Paschim 2nd

Bagmati Province lifted the shield and last edition's champion Sudur Paschim Province finished second with 14 gold, 20 silver and 18 bronze. Lumbini Pradesh, winner of the 11th, 12th and 13th consecutive editions, finished third. Lumbini won 5 gold, 13 silver and 15 bronze.

Gandaki province was fourth with 4 gold, 11 silver and 17 bronze, Karnali province was fifth with 4 gold, 6 silver and 19 bronze and Madhesh province was sixth with 3 gold, 2 silver and 10 bronze. The gold-less Koshi region in seventh place won 7 silver and 8 bronze. 

Usuma Bagmati won 8 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. Far West finished second. Sudoor won 3 gold, 7 silver and 2 bronze. Lumbini finished third with 1 gold and 2 bronze. Four provinces became goldless. In Taekwondo, Bagmati won 7 gold and 3 bronze. Sudurpaschim came second with 3 golds and 4 silvers. Third place Madhesh won 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze. Karnali won the remaining 1 gold in taekwondo where there were 12 events. Karnali added 1 silver and 4 bronze medals. Bagmati was also ahead in

karate. Bagmati became the team champion by winning 7 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze. Lumbini came second with 3 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze. Third place Madhesh won 2 gold and 2 silver.