Bajrang Punia had picked up the injury during his pre-quarter-final bout at the world championships. However, he produced a spirited fightback to go on to win his fourth world championships medal, a bronze, with a bandage on his head.
Mouma Das did just that when she saved two match points before defeating 19-year-old Diya Chitale of Maharashtra in five sets to set up West Bengal's victory in the table tennis women's team final at the 36th National Games.
Guwahati (Assam) [India], September 23 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that the Assam government will provide jobs to all medal winners of the state at the National Games 2022.
The kabaddi event is beginning three days prior to the opening ceremony on September 29 and will end on October 1, to ensure that the players can head for Season 9 of the PKL
As many as 50 medals are at stake in swimming, which will be held in Rajkot from October 2. The swimmers have received full support from the government and have been training at the state-of-the-art swimming pool at the Savi Sports Complex in Ahmedabad for weeks.
The top-seeded pair of Sanil Shetty and Reeth Rishya went down 0-3 to unseeded Manav Thakkar and Filzahfatema Kadri. The husband-wife duo, which got a first-round bye, played and lost tamely to an exuberant Gujarat pair, Kadri combining well with Thakkar.
Jashpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], September 23 (ANI): Elizabeth Beck, a 28-year-old tribal girl from Chhattisgarh's Jashpur, has been selected for the National Games after becoming the best cyclist of the State. The CFI Cycle Federation of India has selected Elizabeth from Chhattisgarh on the
Number 1 and number 2 seeds from Tamil Nadu, G. Sathiyan and A. Sharath Kamal, toyed with their respective opponents scoring an identical 4-0 wins to move into the pre-quarterfinals of the men's singles in the 36th National Games at the Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Indoor Stadium here today.