Olympian fencer Bhavani Devi, representing Tamil Nadu, continued her domination in the national circuit winning gold in the Womens Sabre Individual Fencing competition on Thursday in the 37th National Games being held here.Bhavani beat S. Sowmiya of Kerala 15-5 in the final to win back-to-back gold medals. Shiksha Ballouria of Himachal Pradesh and Jagmeet Kaur of Punjab won bronze medals.Delighted to win Gold in Individual Sabre at the #NationalGames 2023. Its always a special feeling to compete in India, in front of my friends and family. Thank you, Goa! 🏅 pic.twitter.com/24JIW7y3JG— C A Bhavani Devi (@IamBhavaniDevi) October 26, 2023Babu Gaonkar gave the host their first gold medal of the games after winning the Mens Laser Run event in Modern Pentathlon at Ponda. Ajay and Ravi of Haryana finished with silver and bronze. Later in the day, Babu teamed up with Seeta Gosavi to win the silver in the Laser-Run mixed relay where Anju and Ravi of Haryana won the gold and Yoginee Salunke and Shahaji Sargar of Maharashtra won the bronze, as per a press release.In the Womens Laser Run, Ujjala of Haryana clinched the gold ahead of Yoginee Umakant Salunke of Maharashtra who won the silver and Neha Yadav of Madhya Pradesh won the bronze. In the Mens Laser Run, Team Haryana won gold followed by Madhya Pradesh with the silver and Maharashtra with the bronze. In the Womens Team event, Madhya Pradesh won gold while Maharashtra returned with silver followed by Goa who won bronze.At the Campal Sports Village, Popy Hazarika of Assam clinched the gold in the Womens 59 kg weightlifting category with a total lift of 191 Kg (Snatch - 86 Kg, C&J-105 Kg). Davinder Kaur of Punjab won the silver with a total lift of 182 kg and M. Deepanayomi of Andhra Pradesh lifted 180 kg to win the bronze.In the Mens 67 kg category, Mizorams Lalhunthara lifted a total of 281 kg to clinch the gold, edging out Subhash Lahre of SSCB by just a kilogram who won the silver with a total lift of 280 Kg and Arunachal Pradeshs Bengia Tani won bronze with a lift of 277 Kg.In Gymnastics at the Peddem Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Yogeshwar Singh of Haryana clinched gold followed by Sidharth Verma of Uttar Pradesh and Gaurav Kumar of SSCB who won silver and bronze in All Round Individual Mens event in Gymnastics.Pranati Nayak, who is now representing Odisha, won the gold in the womens All Round Individual which was held late yesterday. Pranati Das of West Bengal won the silver while Shraddha Talekar of Maharashtra won bronze.Odisha beat Karnataka and Bihar beat Delhi in the quarterfinals of Womens Rugby played at the Athletics Stadium, Bambolim. Odisha beat Karnataka 64-0 in dominating fashion to book their places in the semi-finals while Bihar also reached the semis beating Karnataka 53-0. Netball Fast 5s at the Campal Sports Village and Basketball 3x3 are also underway with the group stage matches.(With ANI inputs)
