Olympian C. A. Bhavani Devi of Tamil Nadu continued her domination in the women's Sabre Individual Fencing event while hosts Goa opened their account with three medals from Modern Pentathlon in the 37th National Games
Babu Gaonkar gave the entire state something to cheer for by bagging the men's Laser Run gold medal with a timing of 12:26.27 sec and then combining with Sita Gosavi to win a silver medal in mixed relay
Bhavani Devi, who was the biggest star to be in action on the day the Games were officially declared open by the Prime Minister, defeated Kerala's S Soumiya 15-5 in the final to win back to back National Games gold medals. Shiksha Ballouria of Himachal Pradesh and Jagmeet Kaur of Punjab won