Underlining their dominance on the wrestling mat, wrestlers from Haryana added four gold medals to take their count to 16 gold, eight silver and 16 bronze medals.
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This includes some important gold in weightlifting and one gold each in shooting, yoga, cycling and gatka.
Defending champions Maharashtra, who had taken the lead on day one, are in second place with 13 gold, six silver and seven bronze medals.
Manipur, which collected six golds in Thang-Ta in two days, finished third after winning an additional gold in cycling.
Jammu and Kashmir created a stir by winning their maiden gold in the traditional martial arts discipline, Sumit outperforming Madhya Pradesh’s Ashish in the 60kg category.
Haryana wrestlers are expected to be in disastrous form at home. They had won all five golds on the opening day of the competition and looked set for another clean sweep on Day 2, especially with two of the five final bouts being All-Haryana affairs.
But Chandigarh Yashveer Malik There were other plans. Displaying strong defensive skills, he defeated Nishant 6-2 in the 65kg Greco-Roman final.
it all started with Sun By technical superiority he defeated Vishwajit More of Maharashtra.
In the weightlifting segment, Bengai Tani opened Arunachal Pradesh’s gold medal account in the boys’ 67kg category by lifting a total of 264kg. T Madhavan of Tamil Nadu (Boys 61kg) and Haryana’s Usha (Girls 55kg) were among the podium toppers in their respective weight categories.
Haryana also finished 1-2 in the 10m Air Pistol event at the Karni Singh Shooting Range in Delhi. Shiv Narwali Gold medal, Samrat Rana got silver and Uttar PradeshSahil won the bronze medal.