Olympian Sajan Prakash, representing Kerala, clocked 1:59.56 in the final to win the gold, beating his own National Games record set at the previous edition in Kerala.
The youngster from Gogamba district, who was picked during a Sports Authority of Gujarat's talent identification scheme eight years ago, lost the individual gold medal match against Manipur's Okram Naobi Chanu in a shoot-off after both the players were tied at 5-5.
This is India's third medal at the ongoing shotgun world championships after Areeba Khan's silver in the junior women's skeet and the gold medal in the junior men's trap team.
Skateboarders Ranju Singh of Manipur and Shraddha Gaikwad of Maharashtra cross all odds to clinch National Games gold medals. Maharashtra bagged five gold medals while Tamil Nadu won three gold medals.
Diver Siddharth Pardeshi used the 3m Springboard to launch himself to a well-deserved National Games gold medal at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex here and to make an appeal to the ecosystem to encourage Indian Diving athletes a bit more. His competition with National Champion, team-mate a
In the second match of the championship, Sai Praneeth defeated the highly anticipated and in-form HS Prannoy of Kerala 18-21, 21-16, 22-20. After falling behind a game, Sai Praneeth defeated Kerala's HS Prannoy in the championship.
At the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot, diver Siddharth Pardeshi wrote himself into the record books as the winner of the first gold medal in the National Games Aquatics competitions 2022. The experienced Nashik-born diver beat his team-mate and National Champion H London Singh to wi
Tamil Nadu's Bhavani Devi beat Jagmeet Kaur of Punjab 15-3 in the final. She also won gold medals in the 2011 and 2015 editions. Kerala's Christy Jose Josna and Manipuri Laishram Abi Devi won the bronze medals.
Nayanmoni Saikia started the day with an emphatic 23-0 victory over Gujarat's Vaishali Makvana in a Group A contest and ended it with a 21-10 win over Beena Shah of West Bengal. In between, she joined her Assam teammates to post a 33-3 verdict against Manipur in the Fours competition.
Murali Sreeshankar has bettered his own national record thrice this season and has a personal best of 8.36m he achieved at the Federation Cup in April.
The 22-year-old Kapila hogged the limelight after his stellar performance at the 2019 South Asian Games by bagging three gold medals in Men's double, Mixed Double and Men's team
The ace shooter from Himachal Pradesh, currently on a comeback trail, headlined the pistol events at the National Games 2015 with five gold medals and a bronze.