National Games 2023 Goa: Maharashtra athletes dominated Day 7 of the National Games 2023 in Goa with a whooping 13 medals on Tuesday, October 31. Four nationwide records had been damaged, all in swimming, with Maharashtra claiming two seven Golds to take their total tally to 127.
Maharashtra’s Virdhawal Khade stole the highlights with a new nationwide document in the boys’s 50 freestyle. He broke his personal document to register a 22.82s timing to beat Karnataka’s Srihari Nataraj and his teammate Mihir Ambre. Rutuja Khade, from Maharashtra, additionally recorded a superb end of 26.42s in the ladies’s 50m freestyle to clinch a Gold medal.
Both Virdhawal and Rutuja set new requirements in the 50m freestyle occasions and took Maharashtra’s Gold tally previous 50 on Tuesday. Palak Joshi additionally joined her teammates with one other Gold in the ladies’s 200m backstroke by beating West Bengal’s Sourabh Mondal on Tuesday.
Karnataka’s dominance in swimming continued on Day 7 with Shoan Ganguly claiming one other Gold and with one other nationwide document. S Lakshya from Karnataka additionally shone in the ladies’s 400m medley as she beat her teammate Hashika Ramachandra to say Gold.
Ganguly set a new tournament document with a 4:28.09 end in the boys’s aquatics 400m medley. Nithik Nathella from Tamil Nadu additionally bagged a Gold in the boys’s 200m backstroke occasion and set a new nationwide document by clocking a tremendous 2:03.32 end.
National Games 2023 Medals Tally:
| Standings | Teams | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Totals Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 54 | 36 | 37 | 127 |
| 2 | Services | 20 | 11 | 8 | 39 |
| 3 | Haryana | 19 | 18 | 17 | 54 |
| 4 | Karnataka | 14 | 10 | 10 | 34 |
| 5 | Tamil Nadu | 10 | 10 | 11 | 31 |
| 6 | Madhya Pradesh | 9 | 23 | 16 | 48 |
| 7 | Manipur | 8 | 3 | 14 | 25 |
| 8 | Delhi | 7 | 5 | 17 | 29 |
| 9 | Kerala | 6 | 12 | 8 | 26 |
| 10 | Uttar Pradesh | 6 | 2 | 9 | 17 |
