Nationwide Video games: Deepika Kumari baggage two gold medals in archery; Maharashtra keep high spot

Deepika, representing Jharkhand, started her medal rush with a gold in ladies’s particular person class and later paired with Mrinal Chauhan to safe the highest podium end within the combined crew class. Picture: X / @Nat_Games_Goa

Panaji: Former world No. 1 archer Deepika Kumari clinched two gold and a silver medal, whereas Asian Championships gold medal-winning shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar bagged the highest spot in 50m rifle 3-positions occasion on the Nationwide Video games in Panaji on Monday.

Deepika, representing Jharkhand, started her medal rush with a gold in ladies’s particular person class and later paired with Mrinal Chauhan to safe the highest podium end within the combined crew class.

She additionally helped Jharkhand win silver within the ladies’s crew occasion, the place they misplaced to Haryana within the shootout.

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Desk-toppers Maharashtra, third-placed Haryana and Assam shared the opposite gold medals in recurve because the archery occasions got here to an finish on Monday.

With three extra days remaining, Maharashtra are main the medals tally with 68 gold, whereas Providers and Haryana are second and third with 54 and 50 gold medals respectively.

In capturing, Tomar pipped Niraj Kumar of Providers to win gold. Providers’ Chain Singh, who had topped the qualifying, gained the bronze.

In males’s 25m rapid-fire pistol, Vijayveer Sidhu, representing Punjab, clinched the gold medal whereas Haryana’s Anish Bhanwala and Adarsh Singh gained the silver and bronze respectively.

In judo, Delhi gained three out of the eight gold medals on supply whereas Manipur bagged two. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab gained the opposite three gold medals.

Punjab and Odisha shared the coastal seaside dash combined crew occasion gold whereas Madhya Pradesh bagged the ladies’s kayak quadruples.

Suman Devi of Haryana clinched gold within the coastal seaside dash ladies’s occasion forward of Telangana’s Beeda Hemalatha and Maharashtra’s Nikita Darekar.

Within the males’s class, Providers’ Salman Khan pipped Olympian rower Dattu Bhokanal of Maharashtra to win gold, whereas Odisha’s Sourbh Kumar gained the bronze.

Providers beat Kerala 4-2 within the first semifinal of the soccer competitors to e book their place within the title spherical. They’ll face Manipur, who beat Punjab 2-1.