Pune (Maharashtra) [India], March 27 (ANI): Top Indian fencer and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Bhavani Devi efficiently defended her title on the ladies’s particular person sabre class on the Senior National Fencing Championship held in Pune on Sunday.
She clinched her eleventh nationwide title within the thirty third version of the occasion after she defeated V Sunny Alka, the 2021 bronze medalist from Kerala within the last by 15-9, as per Olympics.com.
Earlier, Bhavani, who’s a two-time Commonwealth ladies’s sabre champion, downed Punjab’s Jagmeet Kaur 15-11 in her semifinal conflict and defeated Rishika Khajuria 15-7 within the quarter-finals. She bought higher of Punjab’s Husanpreet Kaur 15-2 within the pre-quarters. She additionally received by 15-3 in opposition to Ritu Prajapati within the spherical of 32Her state group Tamil Nadu, consisting of JS Jefarlin, M Tamil Selvi, and M R Beni Quebha, clinched gold within the ladies’s sabre group occasion after they defeated Kerala by 45-34 within the last. The defending champions Kerala included Christy Jose Jona, Reesha Puthussary, S Sowmiya and V Sunny Alka.
Besides sabre, Senior National Fencing Championship 2023 additionally included group and particular person competitors for foil and epee disciplines.
Radhika Awati received gold within the senior ladies’s foil occasion, defeating VP Kanagalakshmi 15-8 within the last, which was an all-Kerala affair. In males’s foil, Manipur’s Hemash Sanasam defeated Ismile Khan of Services Sports Control Board 13-12 within the last to clinch the gold.
Prachi Lohan from Haryana, who clinched bronze within the cadet epee occasion on the Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships final yr, grew to become the nationwide champion in ladies’s epee with a 15-14 win over her state-mate Tanisha Khatri within the last.
The Senior Nationals Fencing Championship 2023 will probably be concluding on Tuesday. (ANI)