Busan Asian Games silver medallist and Kerala's star performer Bobby Aloysious clinched the gold medal with a new meet record on the final day of the 9th Federation Cup athletics meet, which saw Army and Punjab Police marching away with team titles for men and women respectively, at the G M C Balayogi stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Bobby's 1.89 metres effort in women's high jump was enough to get her the gold medal with a new meet record, ahead of Sahan Kumari of Karnataka (1.75m) and M Sangeeta of Tamil Nadu (1.7m).
The effort also helped Aloysious win the best female athlete award.
Kuldip Kumar of Uttar Pradesh bagged the award in men's category.
The day also saw new meet records in both the pole vault events and men's 400 metres hurdles and women's 20 km walk.
Prasad Reddy led Army's challenge on the final day of the three-day meet, bagging the gold in the 400 metres hurdles with a record timing of 51.24 seconds.
Local lad P Shankar (51.55 secs) and Ranjot Singh of Punjab Police (52.09 secs) finished second and third respectively.
Other Army athletes who won gold medals in categories for men include, K L Saison (triple jump), Anil Kumar (200m) and the Army relay teams in 4x100 and 4x400 metres.
Karanjit Kaur of Punjab Police set the new mark in women's pole vault with an effort of 3.5 metres while Y Baladevi of West Bengal rewrote the records book in the 20km walk clocking 1hr 43 min 60 secs for her first-place finish.
Geesh Kumar (Ker) was the other successful athlete on the final day as he leaped 4.90 metres in the men's pole vault.
For Punjab Police, besides Karanjit Kaur, Manjeet Kaur also bagged a gold medal (200 metres). The team also won five silver and four bronze medals on the last day of the competition.
The homeside had also a rich haul of medals in the competition on Wednesday with Arun D'Souza winning the 3000 metres steeplechase for men.
The Andhra girls bagged gold medals in heptathlon, 4x100m and 4x400m relays.
Among others, Rajesh Kumar of Uttar Pradesh won the hammer throw gold and R S Primesh of Kerala took the yellow metal in 800 metres.
In the women's section, Delhi's Ritu Rani clinched the top position in hammer throw, Manisha Dey of West Bengal stood first in triple jump and Tamil Nadu's Rosalin Mary took the gold in 400m hurdles.
Gurpreet Kaur of Haryana bagged the javelin gold while Asian Games medallist J J Shobha of Andhra Pradesh finished first in heptathlon.
