Khelo India Games: Shivangi picks her fifth gold & Assam move to sixth position overall

Khelo India Games: Shivangi picks her fifth gold & Assam move to sixth position overall

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GUWAHATI: Day XI of Khelo India Games turned out a good one for Assam as the host bagged 19 medals in six disciplines and moved to sixth place in the medal tally in 3rd Khelo India Youth Games. Among the 19 medals four are gold and five are silver.

With today’s collection, Assam took their medal tally to 64 out of which 19 are gold, 19 silver and 26 bronze.

Among the four gold medals one came in the swimming which was collected by swimmer Shivangi Sarma in the U-21 women 50m free style. She clocked 27.43 sec on way to win gold. It was the fifth gold medals for Assam’s swimmer in this edition of the Games and she took her overall individual medal tallies to seven. The swimmer, who bagged six medals in the recently concluded SAF Games, came out with another spectacular performance in Guwahati.

Lawn Bowl gave two gold medals to Assam this evening. Both came in mixed pairs and mixed triples of the U-21 categories. In this discipline there were altogether ten numbers of medal events and Assam made podium finish in all the events. Among the 10 medals host collected 7 gold, 2 silver and one bronze.

The other gold medal of the day came in Tennis which was won by Parikshit Somani and Sheikh Md. Iftikhar. The duo defeated Shashank Macherla and Sai Karteek Reddy of Telengana in straight sets 6-3, 6-1 in the men’s U-21 category.

Assam collected silver medals on Tuesday in three disciplines: boxing, U-17 boys football and badminton. Boxing altogether gave ten medals to the host on Tuesday and three of them are silver. Aikon Mili, Karmaveer Phogat and Pranta Jyoti won silver in the boxing. Mili participated in the U-17 girls while Karmaveer and Pranta Jyoti represented the State in U-17 boys categories.

The bronze medals were won by Chandan Narzary, Sujuma Boro, Mary Moran, Sumitra Brahma, Imdad Hussain, Gaurav Majumdar and Tahil Uddin.

In the badminton, Ankita Gogoi and Isha Rani Baruah won silver in the U-17 girls doubles event. Earlier Tonmoy Bikash Baruah and Navyaranjan Das ensured a bronze medal in the boys U-17 doubles.

Assam also won two bronze medals in the swimming event through Milanton Dutta and Anubhuti Barua. Anubhuti won her medal in U-21 women 200mts butter fly with 2:37.56 timing. Milanton clocked 30.77sec to bag bronze in the U-21 breast stroke.

Meanwhile Assam had to satisfy with a silver medal in the U-17 boys football after they lost the final to Mizoram by a solitary goal at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here today. The lone goal of the match was scored by M Lalpektluanga in the 37th minutes. Odisha bagged bronze medal defeating Punjab 3-2.

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