Rajkot (Gujarat) [India], October 9 (ANI): At the National Games 2022 in Gujarat on Saturday, Tokyo Olympian Srihari Nataraj gained the boys’s 100-meter freestyle swimming competitors to win his sixth gold medal total.
Srihari Nataraj of Karnataka competed on the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot and set a brand new National Games file with a time of fifty.41 seconds so as to add to his assortment of gold.
Sajan Prakash, a fellow Olympian from Kerala who has 5 gold, two silver, and a bronze medal from this competitors, got here in seventh within the 100m freestyle occasion.
At the National Games 2022, this was Srihari Nataraj’s second gold medal in freestyle swimming. He had beforehand gained two gold medals within the backstroke and relay competitions, respectively.
SP Likhit took first place within the males’s 100-meter breaststroke competitors, rising Services’ whole variety of gold medals gained to 45. With 30 gold medals, Haryana is in second place, and Maharashtra is third with 28.
With 23 gold medals, 19 of which got here from the aquatics competitions, Karnataka has moved as much as the fourth place.
With 22 gold medals, Tamil Nadu is sixth on the medal stand after defeating Karnataka within the 4×100-meter medley relay remaining.
At the Sabarmati Riverfront Sports Complex in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s males defeated Madhya Pradesh 2-0 within the males’s gentle tennis remaining, giving their state 11 gold medals total.
Mohit Sherawat of Delhi gained the boys’s 81 kg gold on the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar regardless of competing in his semifinal and remaining matches with a dislocated proper shoulder.
Naveen John of Karnataka gained the boys’s 38 km time trial within the highway biking competitors on the freeway east of Gandhinagar, whereas Tongbram Monorama Devi of Manipur gained the ladies’s 85 km highway race by defeating Chayanika Gogoi of Assam and Pooja Baban Danole of Maharashtra.
At the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot, the groups taking part in water polo pulled collectively to win the boys’s and girls’s gold medals. In an exhilarating males’s remaining, Services got here again to beat Kerala 10-8 with two late objectives, and within the ladies’s round-robin remaining, Maharashtra ladies defeated Kerala 5-3 to win.
With 134.22 factors, S Vaishnavi of Tamil Nadu gained the ladies’s inventive yogasana competitors. Vaishnavi was flanked on the rostrum by the Maharashtra staff of Chhakuli Bansilal Selokar (127.68) and Purva Shriram Kinare (126.68).
Karnataka defeated Gujarat 11-2 within the males’s hockey competitors on the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in Rajkot to advance to the semi-final matchup with Haryana, who defeated Tamil Nadu 3-0 in their very own final-eight matchup. After an exhilarating 1-1 tie within the common recreation, Uttar Pradesh defeated West Bengal in a shootout. Maharashtra, who defeated Jharkhand within the different quarterfinal, will play Uttar Pradesh. (ANI)