Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar of Guru Nanak Dev University clinched the men’s 10m Air Rifle gold with a dominating performance that saw him lead from the first shot on the 3rd day of the 4th Khelo India University Games (KIUG) 2023, Ashtalakshmi, at the Kahilipara Shooting Range Guwahati. (More Sports News)
The 23-year-old has qualified for the final in second spot but never looked under any trouble as he scored a total of 252 points, beating second-pl♔aced Umamahesh Maddieni of KLE🍌F University by 2.1 points. Sumedh Sasane of Shivaji University bagged the bronze medal with a score of 228.8 points.
“I am quite happy with the way I shot today. I didn’t have a good outing in the ISSF World Cup in Granada and I came here to work on certain 💦flaws and find my rhythm ahead of a long season,” said Tomar.
He also teamed up with Vidit Jain and Manpreet Singh Basra to help Guru Nanak Dev University clinch the te꧒am gold with a total of 1871.7 points and jump to the 10th spot in overall standings.
Jain University continued to top the standings as their women’s team emerged victorious in the basketball event with a 68-58 win over the University of Madras and their swimmers added two more gol🦂d medals bringing the total medal count to seven gold, four silver and four bronze.
Chandigarh University are second with four gold, six silver and eight bronze while Savitribai Phule University jumped to third place thanks to two gold medals from the weightlifting arena in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
Trupti Mane of Savitribai Phule University clinched the women’s 76kg gold with a total of 177 kg. Mane started with two unsuccessfꦕul lifts in snatch before finally managing to cleanly lift 77kg. She then went on to lift 100kg in her third attempt of clean and jerk to take home the gold. Shreya Ganamukhi of Shivaji University bagged silver with a total of 169kg and Sana of CSMU won the bronze with a total lift of 168kg.
Later, Savitribai Phule University’s Abhijit Disale won the 89k🔴g gold with a total lift of 302kg. GNDU’s Surinderpal Singh (284kg) and SRTMU’s Krishna Dalvi 🐈(282kg) bagged the silver and bronze medals respectively.
In the kabaddi competition at the Sarusajai Sports C🥃omplex in Guwahati, Chandigarh University defeated Bharati Vidyapeeth 34-32 in the women’s final while Mangalore University bagged the men’s gold with a 36-22 win ܫover University of Kota.
RESULTS:
BASKETBALL
Men:
Gold🐓 medal match – Panjab University bt Un꧃iversity of Madras 85-84
Bronze 🃏medal match – Jain University bt University🔯 of Rajasthan 79-78
Women:
Gold medal match – Jain Univers�♐�ity bt University of Madras 68-58
Bronze mꦐedal match – Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science bt Guru Nanak Dev University 100-8𒀰4
FOOTBALL
Men:
Group A: Guru Nanak Dev University bt University of Calcutta 1-0; U﷽niversity of Calicut bt Punj⛄abi University 2-0
Women:
Annamalai University bt University of Calicut 4-0
KABADDI
Men:
Gold medal match – Mangalore Univerಌsity bt University of Kota 36-22
Bronze – Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada Universityও, Chaudhaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚry Bansi Lal University
Women:
Gold medal match – Chaꦅndigarh University bt Bharati Vidy🌌apeeth 34-32
MALLAKHAMB
Women Team: Gold – University of Mumbai 84.35pts; Silver – Vikram Universit𒁏y 81.45pts; Savitribai Phule University 79.45pts
SHOOTING
Men:
10m Air rifle: Gold – Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar (Guru Nanak Dev Uni) 252ptsꦇ; Silver – Umamahesh Maddineni (KLEF Uni) 249.9; Bronze – Sumedh Sasane (Shivaji Uni) 228.8
10m Air Rifle team: Gold – Guru Nanak Dev Univ👍ersity 1871.7pt𝓀s; Silver – University of Rajasthan 1868.3; Bronze – Panjab University 1865.2
SWIMMING
Men:
400m Medley: Gold – Sai Nihar Bikkina (KLEF Uni) 4:45.01s; Silv𝔉er – Manikanta L (Jain Uni) 4:51.10; Bronze – Aaryan Bhosale (Uni of Mumbai) 4:53.55s
200m freestyle: Gold – Krishna Gadakh (Uni of Kerala) 1:58.48s; Silver –𝔉 Sambhavv R (Jain Uni) 1:59.09s; Bronze – Leonard V (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Uni) 1:59.38s
100m Butterfly: Gold – Harsh Saroha (Chandigarh Uni) 55.95s; Silve🦄r – Vishnu G (Mahatma Gandhi Uni) 57.21s; Bronz🌺e – Pratham Sharma (Chandigarh Uni) 57.36s
4x100m medley: Gold – Jain Uni✤versity 3:58.37s; Silver – Anna University 3:59.73s; Bronz𝕴e – University of Calicut 4:02.18
Women:
800m freestyle: Gold – Anumati Chougule (Jain Uni) 9:50.39s; Silver – Preetha V (Jain Uni) 9:57.28s; Bronze – Varsha V (Uni of Madra💙s) 10:09.28
200m butterfly: Gold – Shristi Upadhaya (Jadavpur Uni) 2:30.5�⛄�3s; Silver – Uttar Gogoi (Chandigarh Uni) 2:33.07s; Bronze – Kalyani Saxena (Sarvajanik Uni)
2🎶00m freestyle: Gold – Snigdha Ghosh (Adamas Uni) 2:14.27s; Silver – Pratyasa Ray (Utkal Uni) 2:15.15s; Bronze – Anumati Choug🐬ule (Jain Uni) 2:17.77s
100m butterfly: Gold – Shristi Upadhaya (Jadhavpur Uni) 1:06.08꧑s; Silver – Snigdha Ghosh (Adamas Uni) 1:06.15s; Bronze – Uttara Gogoi (Chandigarh Uni) 1:07.00
WEIGHTLIFTING
Men:
8ꦡ1kg: Gold – Gurkaran Singh (PU-PB) 307kg; Silver – Valluri Ajay Babu (CU) 300kg; Bronze – Adinarayana Battu (CUTM) 295kg
89kg: Gold – Abhijit Disal♉e (SPPU) 302kg; Silver – Surinderpal Singh (GNDU) 284kg; Krishna Dalvi (SRTMU) 282kg
Women:
71kg: Gold – Manju (🥃MDU) 179kg; Silver – Navde൲ep Kaur (CU) 178kg; Bronze – Bhavana Sharma (LTSU-P) 176kg
76kg: Gold – Trupti Mane (SPPU) 177kg; Silver – Shreya Ganamukhi (SU-MHR) 169kg; Bronze – San💙a (CSMU) 168k💝g
81kg: Gold – Srilakshmi Chukka (AU) 187kg; Silver – ღHeena (PU-PAT) 187kg; Bronze – Re🌳shma (DBRAU) 186kg.
