Madhya Pradesh’s Adwet Page and Kerala’s Sajan Prakash made headlines by winning their third swimming gold medal at the National Games here on Thursday. On the other hand, Mana Patel won the second gold medal for Gujarat at the Sardar Patel Swimming Complex. West Bengal recurve archer Atanu Das won the men’s singles gold medal by defeating Army’s Gurcharan Das 6-4 in the final. Sena continues to lead the medal table with a total of 95 medals, of which 41 are gold, 28 silver and 26 bronze.
Haryana won four out of five gold medals in archery, strengthening its second position with 29 gold. Maharashtra (24) is close to the Army in terms of total medals with 93 medals. Advait Page showed great speed at the end of the 800m freestyle event and won the gold medal in spectacular fashion. He finished first, beating Aryan Nehra (Gujarat) and Sajan Prakash in the final meters.
Sajan Prakash subsequently sweeps three breaststroke events with a gold medal in the 50m butterfly. In the 100m backstroke finals, Olympians Mana Patel and Srihari Natraj won their second individual gold medals. Akarshi Kashyap, the second seed from Chhattisgarh, defeated Maharashtra’s Malvika Bansod 21. 8, 22. Badminton women’s singles gold medalist by defeating 20. Former World Championships bronze medalist Praneeth (Telangana) defeated Mithun Manjunath of Karnataka by 21.11, 12.21, 21. She won the men’s singles gold medal by defeating 16.
Telangana has also won women’s doubles and mixed team titles in badminton. N Sikki Reddy and Gayatri Gopichand defeated Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam of Karnataka 21. 14, 21. beat 11. In men’s doubles, PS Ravikrishna and Shankarprasad Udayakumar of Kerala beat Hariharan Msakrunan and R Ruban Kumar by 21. 19, 21. Beat 19. In mixed doubles, Ashwini Ponnappa and K Sai Prateek of Karnataka beat Rohan Kapoor and Kanika Kanwal of Delhi by 21. 16, 21. win by 13.
With this, Telangana got three gold in the event. Telangana women’s basketball defeated Tamil Nadu 67-62. Experienced diver Surjit Rajbansi won the only gold medal for the army. He and H London Singh finished in the top two army positions in the men’s 1 meter springboard event. World boxing championship bronze medalist Jamuna Boro (Assam) began her campaign 5-0 over Nirmal in the women’s 57kg weight class. In the women’s 66kg, former junior world champion Ankushita Boro also advanced to the next round.