National Games 2023: Maharashtra defended their top begin in the medal standings with eight Gold medals on Saturday, October 27. Athletes from Maharashtra pulled off spectacular wins in the fashionable pentathlon – triathle, weightlifting and combined gymnastics – aerobics occasions on Day 3 to take the staff’s general medal tally to 37.
Last version’s winners Services Sports Control Board loved a combined day with three Gold medals and slipped to 3rd place in the standings. Haryana had been the largest gainers on Saturday with seven Gold medals and jumped to second place in the medals tally standing.
Maharashtra’s Harshad Wadekar bagged the Gold in the lads’s 96kg weightlifting class by lifting a complete of 335kg. He defeated Services’ Jagdish Vishakarma (Silver) and Odisha’s Suresh Yadav (Bronze). Chandigarh’s Gourav Gaurav claimed the victory in the 89kg class by lifting 319kg whereas Marush PS settled for a Silver.
Maharashtra’s Rahu Nitin Pakhle and Sejal Jadhav claimed the top two spots in the ladies’s trampoline occasion. Sanyukta Kale and Nishka Kale (each from Maharashtra) additionally recorded Gold and Silver in the ladies’s rhythmic- equipment hoop occasion. Sanyukta Kale additionally bagged Gold in the ladies’s rhythmic- equipment ball occasion to clinch her second apex medal in gymnastics.
Haryana’s Khatri Taniksha defeated Himachal Pradesh’s Dutta Hyotika in the ladies’s fencing epee particular person remaining to clinch her state’s tenth gold in the thirty seventh National Games in Goa.
National Games 2023 Medals Standings:
| Standings | Teams | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Totals Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 11 | 12 | 13 | 36 |
| 2 | Haryana | 10 | 3 | 6 | 19 |
| 3 | Services | 6 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 4 | Karnataka | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Punjab | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | Assam | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Tamil Nadu | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | Manipur | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 10 | Odisha | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
