Asian Games silver medalist, Kavita Raut and 12-year-old swimmer, A V Jayaveena stole the limelight as big names faltered on the fourth day of the 34th National Games at Ranchi yesterday. Avenging her Asian Games 10,000 metre defeat, Kavita Raut, a poor tribal athlete from Maharashtra, won the event by a big margin even as the Games was mired in yet another mess with the technical officials unable to provide the results on time. In Swimming, the golden girl, Richa Mishra bagged her seventh medal in total but returned empty handed in the 50 metre breaststroke where Jayaveena, a class VII student from Tamil Nadu, showed a lot of promise to claim the silver as Maharashtra's Poorva Shetye and Monique Gandhi claimed the gold and the bronze medals. Manipur however won both the men's and women's team events to dominate the sepak takraw courts at the Indoor Stadium in Dhanbad to consolidate their position atop the medals standings with 19 gold, 10 silver and 12 bronze medals. Delhi remained on the second spot with 17 Gold, 9 Silver and 12 Bronze, while Madhya Pradesh with 16 Gold, 15 Silver and 21 Bronze was at the third position.
News On AIR | February 17, 2011 8:53 AM
Kavita Raut & Jayaveena wins Gold medal at National Games