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National Games 2022: Bhavani Devi wins hat-trick of gold medals

Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], October 1 (ANI): Tokyo Olympic fencer Bhavani Devi gained the ladies’s sabre competitors on the National Games 2022 in Gandhinagar’s Mahatma Mandir on Friday, incomes her the third consecutive gold medal.

Tamil Nadu’s Bhavani Devi beat Jagmeet Kaur of Punjab 15-3 within the last. She additionally gained gold medals within the 2011 and 2015 editions. Kerala’s Christy Jose Josna and Manipuri Laishram Abi Devi gained the bronze medals.

Fellow Olympian Elavenil Valarivan gained the gold medal within the girls’s rifle capturing, edging out Karnataka’s Tillotama Sen 16-10. West Bengal’s Mehuli Ghosh took the bronze.

Gujarat’s star Elavanil Valarivan started the ultimate moderately slowly and moved to the highest spot after the second sequence. The chief board saved altering until the final shot within the fifth sequence and Elavenil managed to pip Mehuli Ghosh by 0.3 factors to arrange a gold medal match with top-ranked Tilottama Sen.

In the ultimate, Elavenil Valarivan took an early 4-0 lead. Tilottama tried to maintain tempo by successful a few factors at common intervals however misplaced nonetheless.

In athletics at IIT, Gandhinagar, 9 National Games data fell throughout the day.

Munita Prajapati (Uttar Pradesh), daughter of a building labourer, and 17-year-old Parvej Khan (Services) took centrestage. Munita set the primary report of this version within the girls’s 20km stroll, clocking a commendable 1:38.20.

Parvej Khan then broke the famend Bahadur Prasad’s 28-year-old National Games report within the males’s 1500m to the delight of the fraternity. He slashed almost two seconds off his private finest time to win the metric mile gold in 3:40.89.

Asian Games 2018 decathlon champion Swapna Barman, competing in Madhya Pradesh colors, claimed the ladies’s excessive leap report with a clearance of 1.83m whereas Praveen Chithravel (Tamil Nadu) made mild of a depleted triple leap subject to win gold with a Games report effort of 16.68m.

Damneet Singh (Punjab) within the males’s hammer throw and Kiran Baliyan (Uttar Pradesh) in girls’s shot put additionally entered the report books. In the lads’s 100m semi-finals, yet-to-be-ratified Amlan Borgohain (Assam) additionally broke the National Games report, set at 10.45 seconds by Haryana’s Dharambir Singh in Thiruvananthapuram in 2015.

Amlan Borgohain, who has been in good kind this season, stopped the clock at 10.28 seconds, two-hundredths of a second exterior the National Record held by Amiya Kumar Mallick since 2016.

Elsewhere, powered by Ankita Raina, Gujarat girls booked their last berth with a simple win over Karnataka. They will begin favourites within the gold medal match towards Maharashtra on the Riverside Sports Complex on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Divya Kakran (Uttar Pradesh) stopped a Haryana sweep of all six gold medals at stake on the opening day of wrestling. She gained the ladies’s 76kg class title, beating Haryana’s Reetika within the quarter-finals and Rohini Satya Shivani (Telangana) and Rani (Himachal Pradesh) with a measure of consolation within the subsequent bouts.

Haryana males and Odisha girls claimed the Rugby 7s gold medals respectively with victories over the Maharashtra groups. Haryana males performed a greater second half to dash away from 7-7 on the break to a 19-7 win. Odisha girls, who shocked nationwide champions Bihar within the semi-finals, dominated their title conflict, opening up a 15-0 lead within the first half in a 22-0 win.

Haryana scored a golden double in netball, their males’s staff defeated Telangana 75-73 in a thriller that went to the wire and their girls quelled Punjab’s problem 53-49. (ANI)

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