Sunil Joliya Jinabhai of Gujarat broke the Games record to clinch the gold medal in the men's 3000m steeplechase event, while Karnataka swimmers Nina Venkatesh and Dhinidhi Desinghu extended their 100 per cent win record to claim their fifth yellow metal in the 37th National Games in Goa on Friday. (Full Coverage | Sports News)
Hosts Goa registered their best performance of the 🐭Games, winning six gold medals in sepaktakraw to climb up the standings char✨t, where top three positions remained unchanged.
Maharashtra continued to stay on the top of the table with a total of 162 medals including 60 golds,♕ 49 silver and 53 bronze.
Services Sports Control Board is ꦛcatching up with the leaders, taking their gold medal tally to 40 after some strong performances in combat sports. ꩲHaryana remains in third position with a total of 91 medals including 32 golds, 24 silvers and 35 bronze.
At the Athletics Stadium in Bambolimꦡ, Jinabhai finished the race with a timing of 8:37.15s to break the existing Games record of 8:43.05s in the name of Shankar Lal Swami, which was set in the last edition.
Asian Games medallist Vithya Ramraj of Tamil Nadu won the gold in the women's 40𒀰0m hurdles with a timing of 56🌌.88s while Gujarat's Dhaval Utekar bagged the yellow metal in the men's category with a timing of 51.20s.
Preeti Lamba of Haryana secured the gold in the wo🍌men's 3000m steeplechase with a timing of 10:19.78s.
In the men's Javelin, Asian Games silv💞er medallist Kishore Kumar Jena had to be satisfied with a bronze. SSC🧸B's Shivpal Yadav and DP Manu won gold and silver respectively.
Upcoming Pooja won tౠhe gold in the women's high jump with a best leap of 1.80m.
Vithy🌼a Ramraj dipped ahead of Jisna Mathew at the finish line to give Tamil Nadu the gold in the 4x400m mixed relay event ahead of Kerala.
At the Campal Sꦓwimming Pool, Karnataka's young swimming stars Venkat𝓰esh and Desinghu guided their team to gold in the mixed team 4x100m freestyle relay. They now have five gold medals each with one more day of competition left.
Sajan Prakash of Kerala, S♔rihari Nataraj of Karnataka, Bhavya Sachdeva and Kushagra Rawat of Delhi won their third gold medals of the Games on a day where four more games records were broken in💜 the pool.
Sagar Bhargava pipped state-mate and Paris 2024 Olympics quota winner Sarabjot Singh🧸 in a shoot-off, to win the first go🐲ld medal in shooting.
Haryana's Sagar, competing in the men's 10m air pist𓆉ol, held his nerve to shoot a 10.2 in h꧑is shoot-off, as the India international settled for silver with a weak 9.3.
The two Haryanvis were tied at 238.8 at🤪 the end of the 24-shot final. Subhash Sihag of Services won bronze with 217.3.
Haryana continued thei𝔍r dominance in the wrestling mat, winning f🌠ive out of the six gold medals on offer with Uttar Pradesh winning the other gold.
Olympian Deepika Kumari qualified for the final of theไ🐽 women's recurve archery event after beating Haryana's Tamanna 6-4 in the semifinal. She will face Sangeeta of Haryana.
