NATIONAL GAMES 2022 LIVE: Mirabai Chanu, Bhavani Devi win gold in National Games: Watch National Games HIGHLIGHTS

NATIONAL GAMES 2022 LIVE Streaming – National Games LIVE Day 1: Top Indian athletes Weighlifter Mirabai Chanu, Shooter Elavenil Valarivan and Fencer Bhavani Devi lived up to their expectations. They all bagged the gold medals in their respective events in the 36th National Games here on Friday. However it was the athletics that headlined the action for the day as nine Games’ records were broken during the course of the action-packed day. Follow Today in National Games LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN

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Munita Prajapati of Uttar Pradesh, set the first record of this edition as she created the new Games record in the Women’s 20km walk, by clocking a commendable 1 hour 38 minutes 20 seconds. In the Men’s 1500 m, 17-year old Parvej Khan rewrote a 28-year old record as he clocked an impressive 3:40.89 to clinch the gold medal.

2018 Asian Games decathlon champion Swapna Barman, competing for Madhya Pradesh colours claimed the women’s High Jump record with a clearance of 1.83m while Praveen Chithravel (Tamil Nadu) won gold in Triple Jump with a Games record effort of 16.68m. In the men’s 100m semifinals, Amlan Borgohain (Assam) broke the National Games record by clocking, 10.28 seconds. Other record breakers include Punjab’s Damneet Singh in the Men’s Hammer Throw, Uttar Pradesh’s Kiran Baliyan in Shot Put.

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As expected, Olympics weightlifting silver medallist Mirabai Chanu has won the gold medal in the Women’s 49 kg category. She lifted a total of 191 kgs to finish on the top of the podium. Her statemate Sanjita Chanu lifted a total of 187 kgs to win the silver medal, while Sneha Soren from Odisha won the bronze medal with a total lift of 169 kgs.

In the previous edition of the National Games that took place back in 2015 in Kerala, Services (91 gold, 33 silver and 35 bronze) finished at the top position with 159 medals and were followed by hosts Kerala and Haryana.

Earlier on Thursday, after a gap of six years the 36th edition of the sporting extravaganza was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a glittering opening ceremony.

Women’s Team semifinals: Gujarat beat Karnataka 2-0; Maharashtra beat Tamil Nadu 2-0.

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30th September 2022 – Results

The results (finals):

Athletics

Men

1500m: 1. Parvej Khan (Services) 3:40.89 (New National Games Record. Old: 3:43.57, Bahadur Prasad, Pune, 1994); 2. Ajay Kumar Saroj (Uttar Pradesh) 3:41.58; 3. Arjun Waskale (Madhya Pradesh) 3:42.31.

Triple Jump: 1. Praveen Chithravel (Tamil Nadu) 16.68m (New National Games Record. Old: 16.66m, Renjit Maheshwary, Thiruvananthapuram, 2015); 2. AB Arjun (Kerala) 16.08; 3. Arpinder Singh (Punjab) 15.97.

Hammer Throw: 1. Damneet Singh (Punjab) 67.62m (New National Games Record. Old: 66.79, Harvinder Singh, Ranchi, 2011); 2. Nitesh Poonia (Rajasthan) 67.27; 3. Niraj Kumar (Services) 65.25.

20km Race Walk: 1. Devender Singh (Services) 1:26:25.00; 2. Suraj Panwar (Uttarakhand) 1:26:25.00; 3. Akshdeep Singh (Services) 1:28:15.00

Women

1500m: 1. K M Chanda (Delhi) 4:19.59; 2. Ankita Dhyani (Uttarakhand) 4:19.86; 3. KM Deeksha (Madhya Pradesh) 4:20.94.

High Jump: 1. Swapna Barman (Madhya Pradesh) 1.83m (New National Games Record. Old: 1.82, Bobby Aloysius, Ludhiana, 2001); 2. Abhinaya S Shetty (Karnataka) 1.81; 3. Grace Glistus Merley (Tamil Nadu) 1.81.

Shot Put: 1. Kiran Baliyan (Uttar Pradesh) 17.14m (New National Games Record. Old: 16.54m, Harbans Kaur, Imphal, 1999); 2. Manpreet Kaur (Punjab) 16.77; 3. Manpreet Kaur (Haryana) 16.76.

Hammer Throw: 1. Sarita Romit Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 61.03m; 2. Rekha Singh (Uttarakhand) 59.51; 3. Reni (Haryana) 58.74.

20km Race Walk: 1. Munita Prajapati (Uttar Pradesh) 1:38:20.00 (New National Games Record. Old: 1:40:35.00, Sapna, Thiruvananthapuram, 2015); 2. Mansi Negi (Uttarakhand) 1:41:28.00; 3. Reshma Patel (Uttarakhand) 1:42:10.00.

Fencing

Men’s Foil: Bibish Kathiresan (Services) beat Arjun (Services) 15-11. Bronze medals: Veluatham Vinoth Kumar (Tamil Nadu) and Bikcy Thokchom (Services).

Women’s Sabre: Bhavani Devi (Tamil Nadu) beat Jagmeet Kaur (Punjab) 15-3; Bronze medals: Christy Jose Josna (Kerala) and Laishram Abi Devi (Manipur).

Gymnastics

Men’s Team: Services (Abhijeet Kumar, Bhaskar Das, Debang Dey, Dip Roy Chowdhury, Gaurav Kumar and Saif Tamboli) 297.95; 2. Uttar Pradesh 294.30; 3. West Bengal 281.60.

Netball

Men: Haryana beat Telangana 75-73 (27-28); Bronze medal play-off: Delhi drew with Gujarat 65-65 (28-28).

Women: Haryana beat Punjab 53-49 (30-20); Bronze medal play-off: Karnataka drew with Bihar 57-57 (24-20).

Rugby 7s:

Men: Haryana beat Maharashtra 19-7 (Half-time 7-7); Bronze medal play-off: Delhi beat West Bengal 29-24 (17-0). Semifinals: Haryana beat Delhi 31-5 (Half-time 19-0); Maharashtra beat Bengal 22-12 (12-5).

Women: Odisha beat Maharashtra 22-0 (15-0); Bronze medal play-off: Bihar beat Delhi 14-5 (14-0). Semifinals: Maharashtra beat Delhi 12-10 (12-0); Odisha beat Bihar 12-10 (7-10).

Shooting

Men’s 10m Air Rifle: Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil (Maharashtra) beat Arjun Babuta (Punjab) 17-7; Bronze: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (Madhya Pradesh).

Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Medal match: Anish Bhanwala (Haryana) 30; Ankur Goel (Uttarakhand) 22; Gurmeet Singh (Services) 18; Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu (Punjab) 12.

Women’s 10m Air Rifle: Elavenil Valarivan (Gujarat) beat Tilottama Sen (Karnataka) 16-10; Bronze medal: Mehuli Ghosh (West Bengal).

Weightlifting

Men

61kg class: 1. Charu Pesi (Arunachal Pradesh) Snatch 114kg, Clean & Jerk 145kg, Total 259kg; Muna Nayak (Maharashtra) 108, 147, 255; 3. Zakhuma (Mizoram) 113, 141, 254.

Women

49kg class: 1. Mirabai Chanu (Manipur) Snatch 84kg, Clean & Jerk 107kg, Total 191kg; 2. Sanjita Chanu (Manipur) 82, 105, 187; 3. Sneha Soren (Odisha) 73, 96, 169.

55kg class: 1. Ranibala Devi (Manipur) 84, 104, 188; 2. Veerjeet Kaur (Chandigarh) 82, 98, 180; 3. Pramila Krisani (Odisha) 70, 97, 167.

Wrestling

Men’s Freestyle:

57kg class: Aman (Haryana); 2. Udit (Haryana); 3. Rohit Patel (Madhya Pradesh) and Abhishek Dhaka (Delhi).

97kg class: 1. Deepak Nehra (Haryana); 2. Sahil (Punjab); 3. Sahil (Delhi) and Pareven Kumar (Haryana).

Men’s Greco-Roman

67kg class: 1. Ashu (Haryana); 2. Karanjeet Singh (Punjab); 3. Neeraj (Delhi) and Moirangthem Taibanganba (Manipur).

87kg class: 1. Sunil Kumar (Haryana); 2. Harpreet Singh (Punjab); 3. Ravinder Kumar (Services) and Chhagan Meena (Rajasthan).

Women’s Wrestling:

62kg class: 1. Manisha (Haryana); 2. Freedom Yadav (Uttar Pradesh); 3. Tannu Mallik (Uttarakhand) and Poonam (Chandigarh).

76kg class: Divya Kakaran (Uttar Pradesh) beat Rani (Himachal Pradesh) 4-0; Bronze medals: Reetika (Haryana) and Bipasha (Delhi).

Other important results:

Lawn Bowls

Women’s Singles: Group A: Nayanmoni Saikia (Assam) beat Chingakham Surajbala Devi (Manipur) 21-7; Beena Shah (West Bengal) beat Vaishali Makvana (Gujarat) 21-4. Group B: Shaista Sharma (Delhi) beat Sarita Tirkey (Jharkhand) 20-13; Anamika Kumari (Bihar) beat Saina Naika (Odisha) 21-16.

Tennis

Men’s Team semifinals: Services beat Delhi 2-0;

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