NATIONAL GAMES - Dipa sizzles with high-five
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Gold Rush Continues For Tripura Gymnast
Commonwealth Games bronze
medallist gymnast Dipa Karmakar was the showstopper on Friday finishing
with a total of five gold medals for Tripura as Services Sports Control
Board (SSCB) continued their domination in the overall standings on Day
Six of competitions in the 35th National Games here.
SSCB broke away from the neck-and-neck competition being offered by
Haryana to top the medals tally with 36 gold, 11 silver and 12 bronze
for a total of 61. Maharashtra were second with 25 gold, 29 silver and
12 bronze (74). Dipa, who won a historic bronze at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in the vaulting table, didn't have any problem in
annexing the floor exercise gold as she won the gold with ease. It was
her second gold of the day after triumphing in the balancing beam. Dipa,
who also came fourth in the Incheon Asaid, began her medal haul here
winning the allround title and she followed up with two more gold medals
on Thursday, winning the vault and un
even bars. She amassed 52.100 points in all.
The overall individual silver was won by Pranti Nayak (47.600), whose participation for Madhya Pradesh has the Bengal Olympic Association up in arms, claiming that the gymnast's registration and training were conducted in the eastern state. Bengal's Pranati Das (43.000) settled for bronze. Silver-medallist and Asian Games bronze-medal list Ashish Kumar ended his campaign with a silver (parallel bars) and a bronze (table vault), braving a heel injury through the competition.
In archery, Olympian Deepika Kumari reached the semifinals of the women's recurve individual event getting past Jharkhand teammate Rimil Buriuly 7-3. She was joined by statemate Laxmi Rani Majhi along with Seema Verma of Punjab and Satbir Kaur of Assam. However, in the men's section, another Olympian Jayanta Talukdar crashed out of the individual event by losing to statement Babulal Marandi of Jharkhand 6-4. Tarundeep Rai, another Olympian from Servic es, didn't face any hiccups as he thrashed Asaam's Dhaniram Basumatary 7-3 to make the last four.
Services' shooters were on target in both the team and individual competitions of the men's 50m rifle 3 position event. The trio of Surendra Singh Rathod, Satyendra Singh and Chain Singh Manhas totalled 3492 to finish on top, well ahead of Haryana (Sanjeev Rajput, Mahesh Kumar and Deepak Kumar), who shot a score of 3431.
Boxing off to acrimonious start:
Despite Boxing India's threat of a ban, 127 men and 55 women from 27 state units and the Services Sports Control Board registered for the event. However, much to their shock, the organisers decided to conduct the event under the old pattern of scoring due to the absence of the new software, leading to protests from teams who demanded that boxers be allowed to wear headguards if every scoring punch was to fetch points as per the old norms.
The overall individual silver was won by Pranti Nayak (47.600), whose participation for Madhya Pradesh has the Bengal Olympic Association up in arms, claiming that the gymnast's registration and training were conducted in the eastern state. Bengal's Pranati Das (43.000) settled for bronze. Silver-medallist and Asian Games bronze-medal list Ashish Kumar ended his campaign with a silver (parallel bars) and a bronze (table vault), braving a heel injury through the competition.
In archery, Olympian Deepika Kumari reached the semifinals of the women's recurve individual event getting past Jharkhand teammate Rimil Buriuly 7-3. She was joined by statemate Laxmi Rani Majhi along with Seema Verma of Punjab and Satbir Kaur of Assam. However, in the men's section, another Olympian Jayanta Talukdar crashed out of the individual event by losing to statement Babulal Marandi of Jharkhand 6-4. Tarundeep Rai, another Olympian from Servic es, didn't face any hiccups as he thrashed Asaam's Dhaniram Basumatary 7-3 to make the last four.
Services' shooters were on target in both the team and individual competitions of the men's 50m rifle 3 position event. The trio of Surendra Singh Rathod, Satyendra Singh and Chain Singh Manhas totalled 3492 to finish on top, well ahead of Haryana (Sanjeev Rajput, Mahesh Kumar and Deepak Kumar), who shot a score of 3431.
Boxing off to acrimonious start:
Despite Boxing India's threat of a ban, 127 men and 55 women from 27 state units and the Services Sports Control Board registered for the event. However, much to their shock, the organisers decided to conduct the event under the old pattern of scoring due to the absence of the new software, leading to protests from teams who demanded that boxers be allowed to wear headguards if every scoring punch was to fetch points as per the old norms.
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