Pole vaulter Shiva Subramaniam, weightlifter Sambo Lapung broke gold medal records in national games. More sports news – Times of India

Gandhinagar: Pole-vaulter shiva subramaniam and lifters sambo lapung I broke national records on my way to winning their respective gold medals. National sport Here on Monday.
While Siva jumped over 5.31m to break his own national record set four years ago, Sambo, representing Arunachal Pradesh, shot 198 to break the clean and jerk national mark in men’s 96kg. kg lifted. lifting,
Motivated by an overwhelming crowd at IIT Gandhinagar, Siva Subramaniam broke the National Games record for the first time, set by Vijay Pal Singh in 1987 at 5.10m by covering a distance of 5.11m.
He then jumped over 5.21 meters and asked to raise the bar to 5.31 meters in keeping with the national record. He failed in the first attempt but passed it the next time.
Star Lapung, a weightlifter from Arunachal Pradesh, broke the clean and jerk national record in the 96kg category, lifting 198kg at the Mahatma Mandir complex here to win the gold medal.
Lapung missed his date with a record at the National Championships in Bhubaneswar earlier this year when the judges dismissed his attempt as a no-lift. But on Monday, no one could stop him from achieving the national record from Vikas Thakur (Services).
Jagdish of Services won the silver medal with a total of 331kg, 15kg less than Lapung.
In swimming, SP Likhit earned two gold medals for services to the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot. She first won 200m breaststroke gold and then swam a leg in the service 4x100m medley relay victory.
Ritika Sriram (Maharashtra) won her ninth gold medal at the National Games, her first in this edition, when she won the women’s 3m springboard diving event.
With 179.15 marks, she immediately dedicated the gold to her coach-husband and two-year-old son.
Kirpal Singh (Punjab) also created a new National Games record en route to his discus throw gold. His 59.32m broke the 25-year-old mark of 58.56 set by Shakti Singh.
Gagandeep Singh and Prashant Malik (both services) won silver and bronze medals.
The men’s rowing team of Services won all the seven gold medals at the course on the Sabarmati River Front. He added three on Monday through the formidable Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh (lightweight double sculls), quadruple sculls and coxed eight teams.
In women’s events Vindhya Sankat and Rukmani from Madhya Pradesh both climbed the podium twice with victories in the lightweight double sculls and quadruple sculls.
Her teammate Khushpreet Kaur also won her second gold medal in the quads on Sunday by winning the singles sculls.
The stellar performances by their athletes meant that the services continued to dominate with 32 gold, 18 silver and several bronze medals for a total of 68 medals.
In shooting, Sift Kaur Kamra of Punjab won the women’s 50m rifle 3 position title by defeating Shriyanka Sarangi of Odisha. SIFT took a 6-0 lead but Sriyanka struggled with some high 10s to take a 15-15 lead in the race for 16 points.
The duo clocked a low of 9.8 in the 16th series before Sif won the gold medal with a 10.1 over Sriyanka’s 9.8.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh men and Telangana women became the inaugural winners of 3×3 basketball gold medals after beating Tamil Nadu 21-18 and Kerala 17-13 respectively in the final at Bhavnagar.
Telangana’s joy in badminton doubled when their star shuttlers won the mixed team gold medal in a 3-0 win over Kerala in Surat.
The husband-wife duo of Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy gave the team the lead by defeating HS Prannoy before going down a game to former World Championship bronze medalist B Sai Praneeth.
After this, Samia Farooqui did the work of sealing the gold with Gaurikrishna swiftly.
In the men’s recurve archery semifinal, Atanu Das (West Bengal) defeated Tarundeep Rai (Sewa) 6-0.
Tarundeep had defeated Jayant Talukdar of Jharkhand, who topped the qualification, in a match that could leave him emotionally exhausted.
Atanu Das will meet Gurcharan Besra (Sewa) in the final.
In women’s hockey, Haryana captain Rani Ramphal scored a hat-trick to beat Odisha 4-0.
This was Haryana’s second win in Group A at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in Rajkot. Now they have been confirmed in the last four.
In another match, Uttar Pradesh bounced back from their opening defeat to secure a 6–0 win over hosts Gujarat.
In Group B, Karnataka beat Jharkhand 3-3 from behind, while Punjab beat Madhya Pradesh 2-1 for their second win.
In the men’s Pool A match, Haryana beat West Bengal 7–0 to score Abhishek’s hat-trick.