*Swastika-Shruti won women’s doubles, Isha won gold in diving*
Panaji :- Athletes from Maharashtra won medals in swimming, table tennis, wrestling, sailing, athletics, tennis and taekwondo on the seventh day of the 37th National Games on Wednesday, moving towards a century and a half of medals. Maharashtra has so far maintained its lead in the medal table by winning a total of 142 medals including 56 gold, 43 silver and 43 bronze medals.Senadal (32 gold, 12 silver, 11 bronze) is second and Haryana (24 gold, 18 silver, 23 bronze) is third.
Swastika Ghosh and Shruti Amrite won the women’s doubles table tennis gold medal. Shruti achieved double success by winning the bronze medal in mixed doubles with Jash Modi. Esha Waghmode won the gold medal while Ritika Sriram bagged the silver medal in platform diving. Similarly, in the women’s 4 by 200 meters freestyle relay race, the athletes of Maharashtra won the silver medal.
Maharashtra won a total of three medals, one gold and two silver in swimming. In athletics, Sanjeevani Jadhav bagged her second individual medal by winning silver in the 5,000 meters race. Dattu Bhokanal won the silver medal in sailing. Maharashtra won a total of four medals in this sport, two silver and two bronze. Maharashtra’s wrestlers won a total of five medals, two silver and three bronze, on the first day of wrestling. The women’s tennis team had to settle for a silver medal.Meanwhile, the women’s poomse team won a bronze medal in Taekwondo at the National Games.
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*Table Tennis*
*Swastika-Shruti duo win women’s doubles gold medal*
*Bronze medal for Shruti-Jash mixed doubles pair*
Maharashtra’s Swastika Ghosh and Shruti Amrute won the women’s doubles table tennis gold medal at the National Games on Wednesday. Shruti achieved double success by winning the bronze medal in mixed doubles with Jash Modi.
In the women’s doubles, Maharashtra’s Swastika-Shruti pair defeated West Bengal’s Sagarika Mukherjee and Kaushani Nath 3-0 (11-7, 11-2, 12-10) in the final match.
Shruti and Jash had to settle for a bronze medal after losing in the semifinals in the mixed doubles. West Bengal pair of Kaushani and Ankur Bhattacharya defeated Shruti-Jash pair 3-1. Maharashtra’s Sunil Shetty and Diya Chitale beat West Bengal’s Anirban Ghosh and Mouma Das 3-1 to book their place in the final.
Diya and Swastika have reached the semifinals in women’s singles. Both of them will have a match on Thursday. Diya scored an impressive 4-0 (11-9, 12-10, 11-5, 11-5) win over Tamil Nadu’s Gladlin Sagaya in the quarter-finals. While Swastika defeated Kavya Sri Basak 4-0 (11-5, 17-15, 11-8, 11-6).
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*Aquatics*
*Isha wins gold and Ritika silver in diving*
*Maharashtra wins silver medal in women’s relay race*
Maharashtra athletes won two medals – one gold and one silver – at the 37th National Games on Wednesday, continuing their medal streak in diving. In platform diving, 20-year-old Esha Waghmode won the gold medal while Ritika Sriram bagged the silver medal. Similarly, in the women’s four by 200 meters freestyle relay race, the athletes of Maharashtra ended the day successfully by winning the silver medal. In swimming sports, Maharashtra won a total of three medals, one gold and two silver.
Isha scored 182.75 marks while Ritika got 177.30 marks. Yesterday, Hritika won silver medal in spring board event. She is a player from Solapur and practices under the guidance of Manish Bhavsar. She has been in this sport since the age of nine. He won two bronze medals in the national sports competition held in Gujarat last year. She is working as a player in railway department in Mumbai. Till date she has won many medals at national and international level.
In platform diving, the Maharashtra team consisting of Raghavi Ramanujan, Avantika Chavan, Dhruti Ahirwal and Aditi Hegde completed the race in 9 minutes 3.52 seconds. The Karnataka team completed the distance in a record time of 8 minutes 49.74 seconds and won the gold medal.
*Now aiming for an international medal – Isha*
Gold medal in National Games has boosted my confidence. Now I want to win medals in international competitions. I want to take leaps and bounds in competitions like Asian Age Group Championships, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Games. In that regard, I am ready to make the necessary sacrifices and work hard, Isha Waghmode said.
*Maharashtra’s winning streak in water polo*
Maharashtra players recorded their second straight win in men’s water polo today as they thrashed Karnataka 13-2. Yesterday, Maharashtra defeated Manipur 28-3.
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*Athletics*
Sanjeevani Jadhav wins silver medal in 5000 meters race
Maharashtra’s Sanjeevani Jadhav bagged her second individual medal of the National Games by winning the silver medal in the 5000m race.
Sanjeevani completed the race in 15 minutes 50.33 seconds. Himachal Pradesh’s Seema Kumari covered the distance in 15 minutes 44.05 seconds to win the gold medal, while Gujarat’s Drishti Chaudhary (15 minutes 58.60 seconds) bagged the bronze medal.
Maharashtra’s Poonam Sonu had to settle for fourth place. She took 16 minutes 42.84 seconds to complete the race.
Sanjeevani had earlier won a silver medal in the 10,000 meters race of the event. Poonam won the bronze medal in that race, while Seema Kumari won the title.
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*Wrestling*
*Maharashtra’s wrestlers won a total five medals*
Maharashtra’s wrestlers won a total of five medals – two silver and three bronze – on the first day of wrestling at the National Games.
Amol Bongarde won the silver medal in the men’s 57 kg category, while Tushar Dubey won the silver medal in the 130 kg category. Vinayak Patil won bronze medal in 67 kg category.
In the women’s category, Bhagyashree Fund won the bronze medal in the 62 kg category while Amruta Pujari won the bronze medal in the 76 kg category.
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*Rowing*
*Silver medal to Dattu Bhokanal*
*A total four medals earned*
Maharashtra’s Dattu Bhokanal won a silver medal in Rowing at the National Games on Wednesday. He also won silver in the men’s coxless four and bronze in the quadruple and double sculls. In rowing, Maharashtra won a total of four medals, two silver and two bronze.
In the men’s individual scull category, international player Dattu Bhokanal was edged out by three seconds for the gold medal. He clocked 6 minutes, 31.9 seconds. In this group, Senadal’s Balraj Panwar won the gold medal (6 minutes, 28.5 seconds) and Punjab’s Karamjit Singh (6 minutes, 28.5 seconds) won the bronze medal.
Maharashtra won silver in men’s coxless four. The Maharashtra team consisting of Akshat, Gurmeet Singh, Vipul Ghurde and Jasmail Singh clocked 5 minutes, 52.1 seconds. Senadal (5 minutes, 47.5 seconds) won the gold medal. His team consisted of Jaswinder Singh, Bhim Singh, Puneet Kumar and Ashish. Jharkhand’s team consisting of Lakhvir Singh, Jaspreet Singh, Harpal Singh and Parvinder Singh bagged the bronze medal.In the men’s quadruple group, the quartet of Tejas Shinde, Omkar Mhaske, Mitesh Gill, Ajay Tyagi finished third with a time of 5 minutes, 34.7 seconds. Senadal’s team of Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh clocked 5 minutes, 29.1 seconds while winning the gold medal. While the team from Delhi (5 minutes, 31.1 seconds) won the gold medal. This team consisted of Sunil Atri, Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Manish, Rohit.
In the men’s double scull category, the pair of Mitesh Gill and Ajay Tyagi clocked a time of 6 minutes, 29.0 seconds to bag the bronze medal. Senadal’s Satnam Singh and Parminder Singh (6 minutes, 13.1 seconds) bagged the gold medal and Delhi’s Manjit Kumar and Ravi (6 minutes, 21.3 seconds) bagged the bronze medal.
*Reaction*
Athletes from Maharashtra participated in seven events in Rowing. Four of these medals were won. This is certainly commendable when compared to the performance of the previous National Games.
*Rajendra Shelke, Coach of Maharashtra*
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*Hockey*
*Jugraj Singh’s hat-trick gives Maharashtra a stunning win over Delhi*
Jugraj Singh’s hat-trick led Maharashtra men’s hockey team to a resounding 4-2 win over Delhi. Maharashtra, included in Group B, registered its second win in the 37th national sports Games.
Ajinkya Jadhav opened Maharashtra’s account by scoring a field goal in the sixth minute of the ongoing hockey league match at the Peddem Sports Complex in Mapasa. So Maharashtra had a 1-0 lead in the first session. In the 21st minute of the second session, Govind Bisht scored a field goal to equalize 1-1. But just five minutes later, Jugraj scored (in the 26th minute) through a penalty corner. Therefore, Maharashtra had a 2-1 lead at the interval.
In the 37th minute of the third session, Jugraj scored the second goal with the help of a penalty corner to increase Maharashtra’s lead to 3-1. In the next minute, Delhi’s Dheeraj Vats reduced the gap to 3-2 by scoring through a penalty corner. Then in the fourth session, Jugraj scored his third individual goal through a penalty corner in the 57 minute.
The Maharashtra men’s hockey team, led by international hockey player Yuvraj Valmiki, registered a winning opening in the national tournament by defeating Odisha 2-1 on Monday.
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*Tennis*
*Maharashtra Women’s Tennis Team Wins Silver Medal*
The Maharashtra women’s tennis team had to settle for a silver medal in the National Games. Losing both singles matches, Maharashtra lost 0-2 to Gujarat in the final.
Gujarat’s Vaidehi Chaudhary defeated Maharashtra’s Vaishnavi Adkar 6-3, 6-0 in the first singles match of the women’s team group of the ongoing Goa Sports Authority Stadium. Then in the second singles match, Gujarat’s Ankita Raina defeated Maharashtra’s Rutuja Bhosle 6-4, 6-4.
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*Tekwondo*
*Bronze for Maharashtra Women’s Poomse Team*
Maharashtra Women’s Poomse Team won Bronze Medal in Taekwondo National Games.
The Maharashtra women’s team comprising of Mrunali Harnekar, Vasundhara Chhede and Sanika Jagtap secured the third position with a score of 6.38. Manipur (6.40 points) also got the bronze medal. Arunachal Pradesh bagged the gold medal with 6.51 points and Assam bagged the silver medal with 6.43 points.
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*Archery*
*Maharashtra Men’s Archery Team assured Medal*
Maharashtra men’s archery team makes it to the finals in the compound event at the National Games Medal has been decided. Similarly, the women’s team will have a chance to win a bronze medal. Maharashtra men’s team defeated Uttar Pradesh team by a margin of 236-224 in the ongoing compound archery competition at Goa College of Engineering, Patangan, Ponda. They then defeated the Haryana team 238-236 and qualified for the finals. This team includes Prathamesh Javakar, Manav Jadhav, Harsh Borate, Parth Korde. Maharashtra will face Delhi on November 5 for the gold medal.
Sameer Mhaske and Amar Jadhav are guiding the team while Girish Kukde is the manager.
Maharashtra women’s team beat Goa 232-210. But they had to lose from the Punjab team. Purvsha Shende, Madhura Dhamangaonkar, Tejal Salve, Pritika Pradeep are included in the Maharashtra team. The bronze medal match of this team will be played against the Madhya Pradesh team on November 5.
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*Roll ball*
*Double win for Maharashtra Women’s team*
*Semi-final claim strengthened with resounding win over Madhya Pradesh*
Maharashtra women’s roll ball team recorded a resounding victory over Madhya Pradesh 17-3 in the national sports Games. On the strength of this second victory, the Maharashtra team has strengthened its claim to enter the semi-finals.
National player Mahek Raut, captain Shweta Kadam and Akshata Shikalgar performed remarkably in this match. This team is guided by Hemangini Kale, Aishwarya Madane.
Maharashtra men’s team faced defeat in the group match. But still the Maharashtra team has maintained its hopes of entering the semi-finals.
*Women’s team’s medal contention remains – Coach Hemangini Kale*
The Maharashtra Women’s team has celebrated two consecutive victories in their group in the tournament with the best performance. The performance of the team players has been commendable. Therefore, the team has been able to strengthen its claim to enter the semi-finals. Maharashtra women’s team coach Hemangini Kale has expressed the belief that the Maharashtra team is definitely becoming a medal contender by continuing this campaign of victory.
