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National Games 2022: Sajan Prakash, Hashika Ramachandra win gold medals in
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Sajan Prakash, competing at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Ahemdabad, beat tough competition from Madhya Pradesh's Advait Page in the men's 400-meter freestyle and Karnataka's S Siva in the 200-meter individual medley to increase his personal gold medal total at this edition to five.
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Archer Atanu Das puts Tokyo disappointment behind, wins National Games gol
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Atanu Das, who had lost to Japan's Takaharu Furukawa of Japan in Tokyo, hasn't been able to make it to the Indian squad since then and was also dropped from the Target Olympic Podium scheme. The West Bengal archer's tribulations came to an end as he won the Men's Individual Recurve gold.
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National Games: Assam's Jamuna, Ankushita set ring on fire
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Jamuna Boro lit up the boxing ring in the opening bout of the day with a flurry of punches to unsettle the Nagaland pugilist early on, before banking on her swift movements to get the opponent to her knees. Ankushita's combination punches were too hot to handle for the Telangana boxer.
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Ashwini Ponnappa embarks on new Mixed Doubles journey with gold in Nationa
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Women's Doubles specialist Ashwini Ponnappa was embarking on a new journey as a Mixed Doubles player. Her first partner: her own Karnataka statemate K Sai Prateek in the 36th National Games.
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National Games 2022: B Sai Praneeth, Aakarshi Kashyap win badminton single
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
At the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay (PDDU) Indoor Stadium, B Sai Praneeth of Telangana defeated Mithun Manjunath of Karnataka 21-11, 12-21, 21-16 in 63 minutes, and Aakarshi Kashyap of Chattisgarh defeated Malvika Bansod of Maharashtra 21-8, 22-20 in 45 minutes.
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National Games: Boxers Lovlina, Jaismine, Hussamuddin off to winning start
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Returning from a nose injury, Lovlina warmed up for the tougher bouts ahead with a flurry of punches that connected right on the Bihar pugilist's face, to eventually clinch the contest in style.
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National Games: Karnataka teenager Hashika claims fourth gold in swimming
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Favourite Hrutika Shriram stayed on course to repeat the golden hattrick by winning the Women's 10m Platform event. Though she was self-admittedly not at her best, she did her dives well enough to pick up her second gold in three days and her 10th crown in four editions of the National Games
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National Games: Teen star Aneesh Gowda remains humble in victory
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Aneesh Gowda has been extremely happy in the past few weeks. He notched up personal best times in two of the three Freestyle events that he raced in at Lima, Peru in the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships. From there, he flew to Guwahati for the SFI National Championships where he won
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My time will also come: National Games javelin throw gold medallist Manu D
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Left to train all by himself in the absence of his Services coach Kashinath Naik, Manu DP admitted to being clueless in Birmingham, as all he could afford was a video call to the 2010 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, posted at the Army Institute of Sports (ASI), Pune.
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National Games: Sajan Prakash wins gold medal in 200m butterfly swimming
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
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.
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National Games: Telangana's B Sai Praneeth to face Mithun Manjunath in bad
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In the Men's semifinals, played at the PDDU Indoor Stadium here on Wednesday, Sai Praneeth downed M Raghu of Karnataka 21-12, 21-19 while Mithun was clearly the dominant player in his 21-9, 21-11 victory over Gujarat's Aryamann Tandon
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Picked by SAG talent scouts 8 years ago, Amita Rathva makes state proud wi
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
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.
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