BHUBANESWAR: Bengal girl Abha Khatua, representing Maharashtra this time, emerged as India's strongest woman athlete as she shattered the national record in women's shot put on the second day of the National Senior Federation athletics championship here on Monday.
Khatua, who was the top Indian in the event going into the meet, set the new mark at 18.41m at the Kalinga Stadium making her the sole owner of the record, which was earlier jointly held by her and Haryana's Manpreet Kaur. She improved on 18.06m, which was the existing record. "At the IGP in Bengaluru, I didn't get the correct shot put. But today it was fine. I also had the right technique," she said.
