MP won three gold medals in 34th National Games
RANCHI: On the second day of the 34th National Games on Monday Madhya Pradesh won three gold medals here.
International swimmer and national record holder Sandeep Sejwal, who is representing Madhya Pradesh bagged one gold, while Arjun Singh Rawat and Shalu Raikwar bagged two more to help the state dominate the Games with nine gold, seven silver and 12 bronze medals.
Manipur added two gold to their earlier six to grab the second spot while Delhi, riding on another superlative performance by Richa, climbed to the third position in the table.
Richa clinched the 800m freestyle with a record timing of 09.24:45s, thus shattering the previous Games record held by Surabhi Tipre (09.25:30s).
Maharashtra had a silver-bronze finish when Aarti Ghorpade (09.48:71s) finished ahead of Rujuta Bhatt (09.51:17s).
Richa swam 02.49:58s in 200m breaststroke en route to her second gold of the day, while Poorva Shetye of Maharashtra (02.52:31s) and Tamil Nadu’s AV Jayaveena (02.53:09s) took the silver and bronze respectively.
Representing Madhya Pradesh, international swimmer Sejwal shattered the Games record by a big margin in the 200m breaststroke.
Sejwal clocked 02.17:53s to smash his previous record of 02.26:80s.
Matches between Orissa vs Haryana, Jharkhand vs Tamil Nadu and Assam vs Manipur, had to be called off.
