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National Games Swimming preview: India's best will make waves in Rajkot po
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sajan Prakash emerged the Best Male Athlete of the 2015 National Games in his home state after bagging a phenomenal six gold and three silver medals. Besides him and backstroke specialist Srihari Nataraj, who is aiming to shine in the Freestyle sprints, Siva Sridhar (Karnataka) and a host of
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Bajrang Punia meets Home Minister Amit Shah after World Championship medal
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Ace Indian wrestler and Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia captured a bronze medal in the men's 65 kg category at the recently World Wrestling Championships 2022, by defeating Puerto Rico's Sebastian C Rivera in the bronze medal bout.
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Murli Gavit aims to end Gujarat's National Games medal drought in athletic
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Murli Gavit last won a National-level event three years ago when he claimed the 5000-10000 double in the AFI Federation Cup in Patiala before his tryst with the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships silver medal in the gruelling 25-lap event. There can be no better stage for him to return to wi
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National Games 2022: Bhavani Devi wins hat-trick of gold medals
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
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.
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Assam Rifles' Women Shine in 7th All India Police Judo Cluster -2022
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI/PNN): In the recently concluded 7th All India Police Duty Meet (Judo Cluster) 2022 which was held at Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi, the Riflewomen of Assam Rifles performed exceedingly well winning a total of 14 Medals including 10 Gold (including 02 t
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Swimmer Richa Mishra hoping to complete half-century of National Games med
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Richa Mishra first participated in the Games in Bangalore in 1997. She skipped the 1999 edition in Imphal as the competition was held in the winter months. The 2001 Games in Punjab did not include swimming in the calendar as Patiala did not have an all-weather pool back then. She has ruled t
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National Games roundup: CWG Lawn Bowls gold medallist Nayanmoni Saikia sta
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
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.
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Star Athletes visit National Games venue, try hand at shooting
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
PV Sindhu, Gagan Narang, Anju Bobby George and Trupti Murgunde, who are in Gujarat for the 36th National Games, visited the Ahmedabad Rifle Club to meet participants and cheer for them. They also tried their hand at the sport, even as Olympian medalist shooter Gagan Narang helped them with t
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Gujarat favourite Elavenil Valarivan wants to showcase consistency on Nati
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Elavenil Valarivan showed promise when she joined Gun for Glory in 2014. She announced her arrival on the world stage when won the silver medal in the 2018 World junior Championships. Her big moment came when she won gold in ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janeiro becoming only the fifth Indian wom
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National Games gathers steam with 9 high-profile sports getting under way
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The National Games caravan, which has already touched the cities of Surat and Bhavnagar besides Ahmedabad, will roll into Vadodara with the Gymnastics competition starting on Friday. The men's and women's team medals in Artistic Gymnastics will be the first to be decided in the five-day comp
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National Games: Kerala athletics coach confident of getting 10-15 medals d
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The athletes underwent a ten-day training camp at the Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education in the Kerala capital about which the coach expressed satisfaction
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Gold at National Games 'No Cakewalk', says Murali Sreeshankar
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
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.
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