National Games 2023 in Goa: Karnataka dominated Day 5 of the National Games 2023 with six spectacular Gold medals and entered within the high 5 of the standings on Sunday, October 29. High-flying Maharashtra additionally made the headlines with 5 (*104*) and additionally turned the primary facet to cross the 100-medal mark on Day 5.
In a giant growth, Sajan Prakash from Kerala broke the nationwide document to win Gold in the lads’s 100m butterfly occasion by clocking 53.79s. He additionally bagged the Silver within the males’s 200m freestyle whereas Karnataka’s Srihari Nataraj claimed Gold with one other nationwide document.
Karnataka’s Nina Venkatesh bagged the Gold within the ladies’s 100m butterfly with a nationwide document whereas her teammate Dhinidhi Deshinghu emerged winner within the 200m freestyle, beating swimmers from Goa and Telangana. Karnataka further dominated swimming occasions on Day 5 by successful two extra Gold medals within the males’s 4*100m freestyle and the ladies’s 4*100m freestyle occasions. Karnataka’s males’s and ladies’s groups set a nationwide document of 03:26:88 within the 4*100m freestyle.
With 5 Gold medals in swimming, Karnataka dominated the occasion with total six medals on Day 5. They moved up within the standings with 9 Gold medals and took their total tally to 29. Maharashtra stay on the high with 44 Gold medals, 26 greater than second-placed Haryana.
National Games 2023 Medals Standings:
| Standings | Teams | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Totals Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 44 | 29 | 31 | 104 |
| 2 | Haryana | 18 | 11 | 15 | 44 |
| 3 | Services | 15 | 8 | 6 | 29 |
| 4 | Karnataka | 9 | 5 | 6 | 29 |
| 5 | Manipur | 7 | 3 | 11 | 21 |
| 6 | Tamil Nadu | 5 | 8 | 7 | 20 |
| 7 | Odisha | 5 | 7 | 8 | 20 |
| 8 | Rajasthan | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 9 | Madhya Pradesh | 4 | 20 | 11 | 35 |
| 10 | Punjab | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 |
