S. Bindyarani Devi broke former Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu’s snatch National record while winning the National Games women’s 55kg weightlifting gold at the Maharana Pratap Sports Complex here on Friday.
After fumbling with her opening effort (83kg), the 26-year-old from Manipur successfully lifted 88kg to better Mirabai’s record which came in 2022 in a Singapore meet.
“I already hold the clean and jerk National record, my goal was to get the snatch record here,” said Bindyarani who lifted 113kg in clean and jerk for a gold-winning total of 201kg. “I’ve been lifting 91kg in snatch in training.”
Haryana men and Odisha women won the rugby sevens titles and in the inter-State team badminton, host Uttarakhand will meet Haryana in the women’s final.
In basketball, the semifinal line-up was clear in both the sections. National men’s champion Tamil Nadu will play Delhi while title favourite Kerala women will meet Punjab in the last-four stage.
At Haldwani, Maharashtra’s Mihir Ambre defeated Karnataka’s Olympian Srihari Nataraj in the 50m freestyle to emerg the fastest male swimmer while Karnataka’s Dhinidhi Desinghu, who has a rich collection of golds here, added one more while emerging as the fastest woman.
The results:
Swimming (gold medallists only): Men: 50m freestyle: Mihir Ambre (Mah) 23.29s; 400m medley: Shoan Ganguly (Kar) 4:29.10s; 200m backstroke: Rishabh Das (Mah) 2:03.34s.
Women: 50m freestyle: Dhinidhi Desinghu (Kar) 26.96s; 800m freestyle: Bhavya Sachdeva (Del) 9:17.60s; 200m backstroke: Soubrity Mondal (Ben) 2:24.41s.
Rugby Sevens: Men: Final: Haryana bt Maharashtra 22-7; third place: Odisha.
Women: Final: Odisha bt Bihar 29-5; third place: Maharashtra.
Badminton: Inter-State semifinals: Women: Uttarakhand bt Assam 3-1; Haryana bt Gujarat 3-1.
Basketball: Semifinal line-up: Men: Punjab vs. Services; TN vs. Delhi. Women: Kerala vs. Karnataka; TN vs. Punjab.
League (select results): Men: Punjab bt Delhi 89-49. Women: Kerala bt Punjab 76-44; Tamil Nadu bt Karnataka 70-62.
Published – January 31, 2025 08:28 pm IST