Kerala comfortably defeated their southern counterparts Karnataka 2-0 in the first semifinal while West Bengal beat Services by a solitary goal in the other semifinal played under floodlights.
Track cyclists Ronaldo Laitonjam Singh, David Beckham and Esow Alban are all geared up for World Championships which is set to take place in Paris from October 12, 2022
Services finished the day with a tally of 51 gold, 33 silver and 29 bronze for a total of 113 medals. Haryana (31 gold) and Maharashtra (29) continued their fight for the second place on the medals tally.
Mohit Sherawat came into the National Games as the pre-event favourite, having won the Senior Nationals title in Lucknow earlier this year. But he dislocated his shoulder midway through the quarterfinal against Sarabjit Singh of Punjab.
On a day when most bouts either ended in knockouts, it was Sanjeet, who lived up to his billing against Uttarakhand's 20-year-old Harish Singh, earning another RSC win to enter the quarterfinals.
In the fight for a place in the Men's summit clash to be played on Monday, Maharashtra will take on Uttar Pradesh while Haryana face off against Karnataka.
"The date of the 37th National Games will be decided keeping in view the dates of the 19th Asian Games, which will be held from September 23 to October 8 next year in Hangzhou, China," IOA secretary general Rajeev Mehta informed as quoted by Olympics website.
Srihari Nataraj of Karnataka competed at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot and set a new National Games record with a time of 50.41 seconds to add to his collection of gold.
As hosts, the state had already created history by organising the National Games in less than 100 days. Gujarat upgraded and spruced up all the venues in six cities and left no stone unturned to give over 7,000 athletes a memorable experience. But with their athletes grabbing the opportunity
Simranjit Kaur managed to breach through her opponent's defence on multiple occasions, before forcing the referee to give a standing count of eight to Rinki in the final round, en route to her unanimous 5-0 victory. Shiva warmed up in style by recording a 5-0 unanimous verdict win over home
Medhali Redkar banked on her belief of not rejecting any new idea without trying it out first and took the plunge.The 24-year-old, who had won multiple national-level medals in gymnastics, has been successfully balancing her academics and sports over the years.
Sai Praneeth after consistently beating some of the big names in the game since 2017, he topped it off by winning the Singapore Super Series crown in 2017 and a World Championship bronze medal in 2019.