GUWAHATI, Jan 30 - Defending champions ONGCL retained the team championship title in the 33rd Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) Inter Unit Athletics Championship which concluded at the SAI North East Regional Centre complex here today.

Amiya Mallik of IOCL emerged as the best athlete in the meet with 1,065 points.

The three-day meet was organised by Oil India Limited (OIL).

ONGCL athletes picked 13 gold, 14 silver and 8 bronze medals (123 points) while IOCL was adjudged as the second best team with 4 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze medals (47 points). HPCL came third with 5 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze medals (44 points).

Altogether 25 events were held in the meet where some international athletes took part.

NK Bharali, Director, HR & BD of OIL attended the closing function the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, Bharali thanked PSPB for allocating the athletics championship to OIL.He hoped the oil sectors will put more stress on providing facilities to the sportspersons so that they can make it to international standard. Bharali said that OIL has been promoting various sports and many of their employees have excelled in national and international circuits.

Courtesy: collec by VOA team