National Games 2023 Goa: Services Sports Control Board athletes had been high of their sport with a sensational 17 medals on Day 8 of the National Games in Goda. Services bagged a whooping 12 Gold medals to their tally and are closing on high-flying Maharashtra at the highest.
Services, the winners of the final version of the National Games, had been wonderful in varied rowing occasions on Wednesday with 4 Gold medals. Services bagged Gold in the boys’s rowing M2*F1 by beating Madhya Pradesh and Punjab in the staff occasion at Chapora River. They additionally beat Delhi and Maharashtra to assert Gold in the boys’s M4*F1 as properly.
Services’ beautiful run in rowing continued with two extra Gold medals – LM2*F1 and M1*F1. Services girls’s groups missed out on medals in the W2F1, W1*F1, and LW2*F1 occasions.
In swimming, Services’ Likhit SP overcame challenges from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to win a Gold in the boys’s 50m breaststroke occasion. In-form swimmer from Kerala, Sajan Prakash, broke one other nationwide report by clocking 1:59.38 in the boys’s 200m butterfly to declare a Gold medal.
Karnataka swimmers stole the limelight on Day 8 of the thirty eighth National Games. Their girls’s staff registered a outstanding time of 8:49.74, a new nationwide report, to win the 4*200m freestyle occasion. Karnataka’s males’s staff additionally set a new nationwide report by profitable the 4*200 freestyle occasion with a sensational end of seven:37.47.
National Games 2023 Medals Tally:
| Standings | Teams | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Totals Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 56 | 43 | 43 | 142 |
| 2 | Services | 32 | 12 | 12 | 56 |
| 3 | Haryana | 24 | 18 | 23 | 65 |
| 4 | Karnataka | 16 | 12 | 12 | 40 |
| 5 | Madhya Pradesh | 14 | 26 | 21 | 61 |
| 6 | Tamil Nadu | 11 | 13 | 14 | 38 |
| 7 | Kerala | 11 | 13 | 11 | 35 |
| 8 | Delhi | 9 | 9 | 23 | 41 |
| 9 | Manipur | 8 | 5 | 14 | 27 |
| 10 | Uttar Pradesh | 6 | 8 | 9 | 23 |
