National Games: Shrishti Singh of UP got silver

National Games: Jharkhand's Tasin Begam wins gold in taekwondo
Ranchi | Monday, Feb 14 2011 IST
 

Maintaining the pace of victory, Jharkhand's Tasim Begam today bagged the gold medal in under-49kg taekwondo event of the 34th National Games here.

Poorva D Dixit of Madhya Pradesh and Naksum Bhutia of Sikkim got silver and bronze medals respectively.

Yesterday, Jharkhand, host of the February 12-26 mega event, won two gold and a bronze medal in taekwondo different women categories.

Sonam Rajput and K Srilakshmi had bagged gold under-67kg and over-73kg competition respectively while Priti Kumari got bronze under-46kg event.

In men under-58kg taekwondo, Arjun Arjun Rawat of Madhya Pradesh got gold medal while A Pradeep Singh of SSCB won silver medal.

Whereas, both Sumit Tiwari of Goa and E Sanatomba Singh of Manipur were tied placed in the third position and won bronze medal in the same event.

Rekha Devi P of Karnataka bagged gold and Shrishti Singh of UP got silver in under-87kg taekwondo women's category while both Monika Raikwar of MP and O Wangoleima Chanu of Kerala won the bronze medals.

In men's under-87kg taekwondo final, Ibrahim Khan of SSCB bagged gold and Manipal Singh of MP got silver medal while Fani Bhushan Prasad of Jharkhand and Dinesh Kumari Bharti of Punjab had to satisfy with bronze medals.

In wushu Taijiquan women's category, L Sanatombi of Manipur was placed first with 8.69 points while K Rita Devi of UP and K h Bidyashwori were placed second and third with 8.59 and 8.37 points respectively.

In men's competition of wushu under same category, M Sadananda of Haryana was placed first with 9.59 points while M Gyandash of SSCB and TH Modun Maring of Jharkhand were respectively placed second and third.

In karate Kumite men under 75kg category, Kunal Dey of WB got gold and Vikas Sharma of MP bagged silver while Md Noor Khan of Manipur and Tam Tapak of AP got bronze medlas. In another 55kg category of same event, Ashok Kumar of Tamil Nadu got gold and Damang Syngkong of Meghalaya won silver while Lal Rang Bawla of Mizoram and Devanand Baskey got Bronze in the same event.

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