Gopi, Lakshmi champs

Veteran Gopi Chand, who will be leading the National team for the World Championship to be held in Copenhagen this May, gave no chance to second seed Sachin Ratti of Punjab in the men8217;s singles final. He took only 45 minutes to clinch the singles title with a score of 15-0 15-6.

Top seed PVV Lakshmi picked up her second gold by thrashing second seed Neelima Choudhury 11-9 2-11 11-4.

Maharashtra8217;s Nirmala Kotnis and Andhra8217;s CH Deepti got bronze.

Results

Men singlesfinal: Gopi Chand bt Sachin Ratti 15-0 15-4; Bronze: JS Vidyadhar AP and Mangrish Palekar Mah; Doubles: George Thomas amp; Marcose Bristow Ker bt Gopi Chand amp; Chetan Anand AP 15-12 15-11; Bronze: Bhushan Akut amp; Amrish Shinde Mah, VD Singh amp; ND Singh Pun.

Women singles final: PVV Lakshmi AP bt Neelima Choudhary AP 11-9 2-11 11-4; semis: Neelima bt Nirmala Kotnis Mah 11-0 8-11 11-6; Lakshmi bt CH Deepti AP 11-8 11-7

Punjab sweep equestrian honours

The Punjab equesterian team completed a clean sweep of the equesterian gold, picking up all six on offer, besides two silver and one bronze, as competitions concluded today.

So complete was their domination that second-placed Karnataka got just three silver. Today, the Punjab riders picked up both gold on offer.

It was a grand comeback, as Punjab had managed just one gold in the last National Games.

Assam had a sound debut, picking up three bronze while Manipur logged one silver.

Results

Tent peggingteam: 1 Punjab Jagdhish Singh, Talwinder Singh, Satpal Singh, Jasvir Singh; 2 Manipur; 3 Assam; Show junping: Varun Sharma Pun, PC Kumarswamy Kar, Jagdish Singh Pun.

Bihar beat UP

Strong contenders Bihar registered a facile 2-0 victory over Uttar Pradesh in a Pool A league match, while fancied Manipur were held to a 1-1 draw by Orissa in a Pool B encounter in women8217;s hockey today.

With three more league matches to go before the semi-finalists are spotted tomorrow, the fight would be between Bihar, Punjab and Chandigarh from Pool A, while in Pool B, Manipur, Orissa and Maharashtra are front-runners.

Results

Bihar 2 Adeline Kerketta 19th, Pushpa Pradhan 46th bt UP 0; Manipur 1 T Nandini Devi 40th drew Orissa 1 Jacinta Toppo

Archery

Sworo registers record, clinches fourth gold

Bihar8217;s star archer Chekrovolo Sworo won her fourth gold in women8217;s individual event with a new Games record, while the state8217;s archers earned the women8217;s team gold in thefifth National Games today.

Sworo, who had earlier clinched gold in 60m, 70m and the team event, beat Jhanu Hansda 106-96 in the women8217;s individual to set a Games record. Falguni Chatterjee of Bihar, who defeated Swati Mukherjee of West Bengal by eight points 88-81 collected the bronze.

Results

Men8217;s individual: MR Tirkey Ser 105, Manoj Kumar Murmu UP 101, Limba Ram Bihar; Team: 1 UP Satya Dey, Ved Kumar, Manoj Kumar 237, 2 Bihar LR Sanga, L Ram, MC Patel 229, 3 Services.

Women8217;s team: 1 Bihar Tridala Banerjee, Sworo, Girija Devi 202, 2 West Bengal Tira Smanta, Sampha Ghosh, Swati Mukherjee 176, 3 Manipur.

Nisha swims to two more medals

Karnataka mermaid Nisha Millet continued her gold hunt picking up two more medals in the 400 metre individual medley and 50m backstroke to take her tally to seven in women8217;s swimming.

Results

Men

200m medley: Sebastian Xavier Ker 2:21.82, Deepak Singh Delhi 2:22.98, TA Sujith SSCB 2:25.52; 50mbackstroke: Senthil Kumar Ker 28.93s, Surjit Kumar Beng 29.04s, KS Arul Kumar 30.17s; 4215;200 freestyle: 1 SSCB 8:41.52, 2 Karnataka 8:59.42, 3 Bengal 9:03.12;

Women

400m medley: Nisha Millet Kar 5:36.30, K Chitra Kar 5:49.42, Sumy Cyriac Ker 5:52.81; 50m backstroke: Nisha Millet Kar 33.96s; Reshma Millet Kar 34.64s, Sumy Cyriac 35.27s.

Delhi, Services share lead in shooting

On a day when three National Games records were shattered, Delhi and Services shared the medal tally in shooting events.

Services hold top position with four gold and four silver, while Delhi has four gold, two silver and two bronze.

Three Games records were broken in the Air rifle 10m women, Air rile 10m men and free rifle prone 50m men.

Results

Men:

Air rifle 10m: TC Pallangaga Ser 679.6 New record: PR 667 C Deshmukh;

Free rifle prone 50m: Shankar MP 686.5 New record: PR MT Sutar;

Sport rifle prone 10m: Kuneli Sengupta Beng580; Team: 1 Maharashtra, 2 Bengal, 3 Manipur;

Standard Pistol: Jaspal Rana 578 New record, PR: 570, Ashok Pandit Mah, Samresh Jung Del; Team: 1 Delhi

Women

Air rifle 10m: Anjali Ved Pathak Mah 487 New Games record: PR Suma Dixit 482 1997; Team: 1 Services, 2 Maharashtra, 3 MP.

Sports rifle three position: Suma Dixit Mah 653.2, Kuheli Gangulee Beng 650.2, Deepali Deshpande Mah 647; Team: 1 Maharashtra Suma, Deepali, Anjali Ved Pathak 1673, West Bengal 1573, Manipur 1314.

Sports rifle prone: Kuheli Gangulee Beng 580, Anjali Ved Pathak Mah, Anuja Tere Mah; Team: 1 Maharashtra Anjali, Anuja, Suma Dixit 1713, 2 Bengal 1688, Manipur 1524

WB lose to Punjab

West Bengal8217;s hopes of entering the last four stage of the football event of the fifth National Games rest on the spin of a coin.

In Group A, Bengal are tied with Assam at four points after they lost to Punjab 2-1 today. Both team have equal goal difference forcing the Games8217;management to decide the semi-finalist on the spin of a coin tomorrow.

Results

Punjab 2 Same Lama, Prasanto Das bt Bengal 1 Srikanta Dutta; Kerala 1 drew Assam 1; Manipur 2 bt Goa 0.