Asian Games medallists Jyothi Yarraji and Tejas Shirse
broke National Games records on their way to winning the gold medals in 100m
and 110m hurdles at the athletics competitions of the 37th National Games which
is being held at the GMC Athletic Stadium in Bambolim.
Jyothi improved her own mark, finishing in 13.22 sec
while Tejas who had rewritten the games record in the heats to 13.80 sec held
in the morning on Monday, improved his timing by finishing in 13.71 sec in the
finals.
Maharashtra is leading the medal tally with 47 gold,
34 silver and 33 bronze followed by Haryana with 18 gold, 15 silver and 17
bronze in second place and last edition champions SSCB are currently third with
17 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze.
On a day of records being broken, Priyanka Goswami
bettered the game record in the 20 Km walk held in the morning. Priyanka
finished in 1:36:35 sec breaking the record of Munita Prajapati, who won the
bronze medal. Maharashtra’s Sejal Anil Singh finished in 1:41:13 sec to win the
silver.
In the 400m, Vithya Ramraj of Tamil Nadu took gold
finishing in 52.85 sec well ahead of Jyotikasri D of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala’s
Jisna Mathew. In the men’s category, K Avinash of Tamil Nadu took gold dipping
ahead of Haryana’s Vikrant Panchal. Maharashtra’s Rahul Ramesh Kadam finished
with the bronze.
Abha Khatua of Mahrashtra won gold in Women’s Shot Put
with a throw of 17.09 m and Muhammed Anees of Kerala won the gold in Long Jump
with a jump of 8.15m. Lili Das of West Bengal beat fellow international KM
Chanda of Delhi to the finish line in women’s 1500 M to win the gold. In the
men’s 1500m, Ritesh Ohre of Madhya Pradesh won the gold with a timing of
3:40.93 sec.
In the men’s 20km walk held in the morning, Suraj
Panwar of Uttarakhand won gold with a timing of 1:27:43 sec. SSCB’s Servin won
the silver with a timing of 1:41:13 sec and Hardeep of Haryana won the bronze
in 1:42:24 sec.
Tejaswin Shankar representing Delhi is ahead in
Decathlon with 4062 points after the completion of Day 1 with Kerala’s N
Thowfeeq closely behind.
Delhi’s Kushagra Rawat and Bhavya Sachdeva underlined
their prowess in long-distance swimming when they bettered the National Games
mark in 1500m and 800m freestyle respectively on day 2 of the aquatic
competition at the Campal Swimming Complex.
Rawat, who stopped the clock at 15:38.73 seconds, was
so dominant in the men’s 1500m freestyle category at the Campal Swimming Pool
that second-placed Sajan Prakash of Kerala was almost 30 meters behind while
bronze winner Advait Page of Madhya Pradesh was a lap behind.
In the 800m women’s freestyle event, Bhavya Sachdeva
staved off the initial challenge for Telangana’s Vritti Agarwal to clinch her
second successive National Games gold medal with a timing of 9:08.60s,
improving her own of 9:15.24s set last year in Gujarat.
National Games records were also bettered in men’s and
women’s 4×100 Medley. In the men’s category, Services (3:46.81s) clinched the
gold, Tamil Nadu (3:47.16s) the silver and Karnataka (3:47.43s) took home the
bronze with all the three teams improving on the previous mark.
In the women’s 4×100 Medley, gold winner Karnataka
(4:25.82s) and silver medallists Bengal (4:27.73s) improved on the previous
National Games record. Odisha won the bronze with a time of 4:28.88s.
In a Table Tennis competition at the Campal
Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Maharashtra women beat Haryana 3-1 to clinch the
gold medal. In the Men’s category, Delhi beat West Bengal 3-1 to secure the
gold medal.
ANI
