National Games 2023 November 3rd Results: Shivpal Singh wins gold in men's javelin throw, Kishore Kumar Jena settles for bronze

Published at :November 4, 2023 at 10:43 AM

Modified at :January 14, 2024 at 12:56 AM

(Courtesy : ESPN)

Services getting closer to the top spot in medals tally.

Sunil Joliya Jinabhai from Gujarat shattered the Games record to secure the gold medal in the Men’s 3000 M race, while swimmers Nina Venkatesh and Dhinidhi Desinghu from Karnataka continued their exceptional performance by claiming their fifth gold in the National Games 2023.

Hosts Goa achieved their best performance in the Games, securing six gold medals in Sepak Takraw, which contributed to their improved standing in the rankings. However, the top three positions in the medal table remained unchanged.

Maharashtra maintained its lead in the medal standings with a total of 162 medals, including 60 golds, 49 silvers, and 53 bronzes. The Services Sports Control Board is narrowing the gap with the leaders, accumulating 40 gold medals after strong performances in combat sports. Haryana remained in the third position with a total of 91 medals, including 32 golds, 24 silvers, and 35 bronzes.

In athletics at the Bambolim Athletics Stadium, Sunil Joliya Jinabhai set a new Games record with a time of 8:37.15 s in the Men’s 3000 M race. Vithya Ramraj of Tamil Nadu secured the gold in the Women’s 400 M Hurdles with a time of 56.88 s, while Gujarat’s Dhaval Utekar claimed the gold in the men’s category with a time of 51.20 s. Haryana’s Preeti Lamba won the gold in the Women’s 3000 M Steeplechase with a time of 10:19.78 s.

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In the Men’s Javelin, Asian Games silver medalist Kishore Kumar Jeena earned a bronze, with SSCB’s Shivpal Yadav and D.P Manu taking gold and silver, respectively. High jumper Pooja secured the gold in the Women’s High Jump with a best jump of 1.80 m.

Tamil Nadu clinched the gold in the 4×400 M Mixed Relay event ahead of Kerala, providing an exciting conclusion to the athletics events.

At the Campal Swimming Pool, Karnataka’s young swimmers, Nina Venkatesh and Dhinidhi Desinghu, contributed to their team’s gold in the mixed team 4×100 Freestyle Relay, further adding to their growing list of achievements with five gold medals each.

In the pool, Sajan Prakash of Kerala, Srihari Nataraj of Karnataka, Bhavya Sachdeva, and Kushagra Rawat of Delhi each secured their third gold medals in the Games, with four more Games records broken.

In the shooting arena at the Mandrem Shooting Range, Sagar Bhargava from Haryana emerged victorious by defeating Paris 2024 Olympics quota winner Sarabjot Singh in a shoot-off to win the first gold medal in Shooting. Sagar shot a remarkable 10.2 in his shoot-off shot, while Sarabjot Singh took silver with a score of 9.3. The two Haryanvis were tied at 238.8 at the end of the 24-shot final. Subhash Sihag of the Services secured the bronze with 217.3.

In the wrestling arena, Haryana continued its dominance by winning five of the six gold medals, with Uttar Pradesh securing the other gold.

In Sepak Takraw at the Fatorda Multipurpose Hall, the host state, Goa, claimed six of the eight gold medals on offer. Goa’s men secured all four gold medals, while the women won two golds along with one silver and one bronze. Manipur earned the other two gold medals in the event.

At the Goa Engineering College in Farmagudi, Olympian Deepika Kumari advanced to the final of the Women’s Recurve event, beating Haryana’s Tamanna 6-4 in the semis. She will face Sangeeta of Haryana, who won her semi-final match 6-2 against Gujarat’s Bhagora Vargishkumar.

In the men’s category, giant killer Mukesh Boro, who had defeated Olympian Atanu Das in the second round, qualified for the finals by beating SSCB’s Gora Ho in the shoot-off. He will face Uttarakhand’s Kartik Rana, who also caused an upset by defeating Olympian Jayanta Talukdar in the first round. Kartik comprehensively defeated Bhagwat Singh of Chhattisgarh 7-1 in the semis to book his place in the finals.

Important Results:

Athletics

400 M Hurdles Men

Gold – Dhaval Utekar (Gujarat) – 51.20 s

Silver – Nikhil Bharadwaj (SSCB) – 51.50 s

Bronze – Vijay Singh Malik (SSCB) – 51.67 s

400 M Hurdles Women

Gold – Vithya Ramraj (Tamil Nadu) – 56.88 s

Silver – Veerpal Kaur (Punjab) – 58.96 s

Bronze – Nanhi (Haryana) – 59.02 s

3000 M Steeplechase Men

Gold – Sunil Joliya Jinabhai (Gujarat) – 8:37.15 s (NGR)

Silver – Mohd. Noor Hasan (SSCB) – 8:38.77 s

Bronze – Prince Raj Sharma (Sikkim) – 8:45.05 s

3000 M Steeplechase Women

Gold – Preeti Lamba (Haryana) – 10:19.78 s

Silver – Komal Jagadale (Maharashtra) – 10:21.66 s

Bronze – Bhagyashree (Gujarat) – 10:30.79 s

Javelin Throw Men

Gold – Sivpal Singh (SSCB) – 81.17 m

Silver – D.P Manu (SSCB) – 80.48 m

Bronze – Kishore Kumar Jeena (Odisha) – 78.47 m

High Jump Women

Gold – Pooja (Haryana) – 1.80 m

Silver – Mohur Mukherjee (West Bengal) – 1.74 m

Bronze – Angel P. Devasia (Kerala) – 1.74 m

4×400 Mixed Relay

Gold – Tamil Nadu – 3:21.26 s

(K.Avinash, Sumathira, S.K Kaven, Vithya Ramaraj)

Silver – Kerala – 3:21.54 s

(P. Abhiram, Gowri Nandana, Rince Joseph, Jisna Mathew)

Bronze – Maharashtra – 3:23.20 s

(R. Gautham Kamble, Yamuna Ladkat, Rahul Ramesh Kadam, Anushka Dattaray)

Shooting

10 M Air Rifle Men

Gold – Sagar Bhargava (Haryana) – 238.8 (Shoot Off: 10.2)

Silver – Sarabjot Singh (Haryana) – 238.8 (Shoot Off: 9.3)

Bronze – Subhash Sihag (SSCB) – 217.3

Swimming

Men’s 50 M Backstroke

Gold – Srihari Nataraj (Karnataka) – 25.77 s

Silver – Rishabh Das (Maharashtra) – 26.66 s

Bronze – P.S Madhu (SSCB) – 26.73 s

Women’s 50 M Backstroke

Gold – Ridhima Veerendra Kumar (Karnataka) – 30.21 s

Silver – Soubrity Mondal (West Bengal) – 30.59 s

Bronze – Sanjana Prabhugaonker (Goa) – 30.80 s

Women’s 400 M Freestyle

Gold – Bhavya Sachdeva (Delhi) – 4:27.93 s (NGR)

Silver – Vritti Agarwal (Telangana) – 4:30.03 s

Bronze – Shirin (Karnataka) – 4:34.74 s

Men’s 400 M Freestyle

Gold – Kushagra Rawat (Delhi) – 3:55.84 s (NGR)

Silver – Sajan Prakash (Kerala) – 3:58.13 s

Bronze – Aneesh S. Gowda (Karnataka) – 4:00.73 s

Women’s 200 M Medley

Gold – Manavi Varma (Karnataka) – 2:24.21 s (NGR)

Silver – Shrungi Bandekar (Goa) – 2:26.90 s

Bronze – Hashika Ramachandra (Karnataka) – 2:28.31 s

Men’s 200 M Medley

Gold – Sajan Prakash (Kerala) – 2:04.57 s (NGR)

Silver – Shoan Ganguly (Karnataka) – 2:05.68 s

Bronze – Siva Sridhar (Karnataka) – 2:05.96 s

Mixed 4 x 100 M Freestyle Relay

Gold – Karnataka – 3:38.24 s

(Aneesh S. Gowda, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Nina Venkatesh, Srihari Nataraj)

Silver – Maharashtra – 3:42.61 s

(Meet Makhija, Avantika Chawan, Rujuta Khade, Virdhawal Khade)

Bronze – Delhi – 3:47.73 s

(Kushagra Rawat, Bhavya Sachdeva, Kshama Iyer, Vishal Grewal)

Wrestling

Men’s 65 Kg Freestyle

Gold – Sujeet (Haryana)

Silver – Rohit (SSCB)

Bronze – Mohit Kumar (Haryana), Manoj Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)

Men’s 74 Kg Freestyle

Gold – Naveen (Haryana)

Silver – Sourabh Sehrawat (Delhi)

Bronze – Vijay (SSCB), Rohit Prajapati (Madhya Pradesh)

Men’s 60 Kg Greco Roman

Gold – Saurabh (Uttar Pradesh)

Silver – Sumit (Chandigarh)

Bronze – Gyanender (SSCB), Sagar Singh (Punjab)

Men’s 87 Kg Greco Roman

Gold – Sunil Kumar (Haryana)

Silver – Neeraj (Delhi)

Bronze – Harpreet Singh (Punjab), Sushant (SSCB)

Women’s 53 Kg

Gold – Pooja (Haryana)

Silver – Gursharan Kaur (Punjab)

Bronze – Banita Kumar (Himachal Pradesh), Priyanshi (Madhya Pradesh)

Women’s 57 Kg

Gold – Mansi (Haryana)

Silver – Neetu (Chandigarh)

Bronze – Swati (Uttar Pradesh), Simran (Delhi)

Archery

Recurve Women Semi-Finals

Sangeeta (Haryana) bt Bhagora Vargishkumar (Gujarat) – 6-2

Deepika Kumari (Jharkhand) bt Tamanna (Haryana) – 6-4

Recurve Men Semi-Finals

Kartik Rana (Uttarakhand) bt Bhagwat Singh Porte (Chhattisgarh) – 7-1

Mukesh Boro (Assam) bt Gora Ho (SSCB) – 5-5 (10-8)

Cycling

Women’s 4 KM Team Pursuit

Gold – Manipur – 05:05.870

Silver – Maharashtra – 05:08.432

Bronze – Haryana – 05:18.700

Men’s 4 KM Team Pursuit

Gold – SSCB – 04:18.650

Silver – Haryana – 04:21.039

Bronze – Punjab – 04:22.943

Women Sprint Individual

Gold – Mayuri Lute (Maharashtra)

Silver – Triyasha Paul (Delhi)

Bronze – Shweta Gunjal (Maharashtra)

Men Sprint Individual

Gold – Yanglem Rojit Singh (Manipur)

Silver – David Beckham (Andaman & Nicobar Islands)

Bronze – Luv Kumar Yadav (Rajasthan)

Wushu

Men’s Nandao

Gold – Sajan Lama (SSCB) – 9.30 points

Silver – Ravi Suryavanshi (Uttar Pradesh) – 8.30 points

Bronze – Akash Oraon (Jharkhand) – 8.00 points

Women’s Nandao

Gold – Yorna Rosni (Arunachal Pradesh) – 8.60 points

Silver – Saloni Jadhav (Maharashtra) – 8.00 points

Bronze – Ritika Ghosh (West Bengal) – 7.80 points

Men’s Gunshu

Gold – Shashi Kishan Tamang (SSCB) – 9.40 points

Silver – Ningthoujam Malemnganba Singh (Manipur) – 9.15 points

Bronze – Balwant Singh (Rajasthan) – 8.95 points

Women’s Gunshu

Gold – Vanshika Namdeo (Madhya Pradesh) – 8.65 points

Silver – Priyanka Sajwan (Punjab) – 7.95 points

Bronze – N.P Greeshma (Kerala) – 7.60 points

Sepak Takraw

Women’s Quad Final

Goa bt Haryana – 2-0

Women’s Doubles Final

Goa bt Andhra Pradesh – 2-1

Women’s Team Final

Manipur bt Goa – 2-0

Women’s Regu Final

Manipur bt Nagaland – 2-0

Men’s Doubles Final

Goa bt Kerala – 2-0

Men’s Quad Final

Goa bt Delhi – 2-1

Men’s Team Final

Goa bt Manipur – 2-1

Men’s Regu Final

Goa bt Manipur – 2-0

Taekwondo

Women’s Under 53 Kg

Gold – Anisha Aswal (Delhi)

Silver – Raksha Chahar (Chandigarh)

Bronze – Neeshita Kotwal (Maharashtra), Aditi P (Karnataka)

Women’s Under 67 Kg

Gold – Margerette Maria Regi (Kerala)

Silver – Afreen Hyder (Jammu & Kashmir)

Bronze – Madhu Singh (Madhya Pradesh), K. Kanaka Mahalakshmi (Andhra)

Women’s 73+ Kg

Gold – Rodali Barua (Goa)

Silver – V. Pravalika Kustagi (Karnataka)

Bronze – Namrata Tayade (Maharashtra), Jhanvi Mazumder (Odisha)

Men’s Under 63 Kg

Gold – Ajay Kumar (Haryana)

Silver – Nitesh Singh (Uttarakhand)]

Bronze – Sritam Dalal (Gujarat), Deepanshu Kumar (Delhi)

Men’s Under 80 Kg

Gold – P. Saravana Kumar (Goa)

Silver – Shivansh Tyagi (Delhi)

Bronze – Yasin Muhammed (Kerala), Abhijeet Baliyan (Rajasthan)

Men’s 87+ Kg

Gold – R. Preetham (Haryana)

Silver – P. Anand (Goa)

Bronze – Jasvant (Haryana), Vivek Prakash (Bihar)

Hockey

Women

Pool A: Haryana bt Odisha – 7-2

Pool B: Karnataka bt Goa – 7-0

Men

Pool A: Maharashtra bt West Bengal – 4-1

Pool B: Uttar Pradesh bt Goa – 5-1

Squash

Women’s Team Semi-Finals

Tamil Nadu bt Rajasthan – 3-0

Maharashtra bt Uttar Pradesh – 3-0

Men’s Semi-Finals

Maharashtra bt SSCB – 2-0

Tamil Nadu bt Madhya Pradesh – 2-0

Tennis

Men’s Doubles Semi-Finals

Prajwal S.D Dev/Adil Kalyanpur (Karnataka) bt Sidharth Rawat/Sidharth Vishwakarma (Uttar Pradesh) – 6-0, 6-1

Arjun Kadhe/Purav Raja (Maharashtra) bt Digvijay Pratap Singh/Karan Singh (Haryana) – 7-5, 7/6

Women’s Doubles Semi-Finals

Rutuja Bhosale/ Prarthana Thombare (Maharshtra) bt Janani Ramesh/C. Sai Samhitha (Tamil Nadu) – 6/0, 6/0

C. Shravya Shivani/Rashmika S. Bhamidipaty (Telangana) bt Sharmada Balu/Soha Sadiq (Karnataka) – 6/1, 6/0

Mixed Doubles Semi-Finals

Rutuja Bhosale/Arjun Khade (Maharashtra) bt Yubrani Banarjee/ Nitin Sinha (West Bengal) – 6/3, 6/1

C. Sai Samhitha/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (Tamil Nadu) bt Sharmadha Balu/Prajwal S.D Dev – 5/7, 7/6 (5), 10-7

Diving

1 M Spring Board Women

Gold – Palak Sharma (Madhya Pradesh)

Silver – Hruthika Shriram (Maharashtra)

Bronze – Annesha Dhara (West Bengal)

Water Polo

Women’s Semi-Finals

Kerala bt Maharashtra – 16-7, West Bengal bt Karnataka – 16-5

Men’s Semi Finals

SSCB bt Kerala – 13-6, Maharashtra bt West Bengal – 16-5

Women’s Football Semi-Finals

Odisha bt West Bengal – 0-0 (5-4)

Manipur bt Haryana – 1-1 (3-2)

Men’s Football

Pool B: Punjab drew Goa – 1-1, Services bt Karnataka – 1-0