: Telangana netball team settles for silver at 36th National Games #IndiaNEWS #News Hyderabad: The Telangana State men’s netball team clinched silver in the on-going 36th National Games in Gujarat

Telangana netball team settles for silver at 36th National Games #IndiaNEWS #News
Hyderabad: The Telangana State men’s netball team clinched silver in the on-going 36th National Games in Gujarat on Saturday. The State team went down fighting to Haryana 73-75 in the summit clash. Telangana men took the lead with a point over Haryana in the first half 28-27. However, Haryana bounced back and clinched the title.
Earlier in the semifinals, Telangana defeated hosts Gujarat 55-53. Gujarat had plenty to cheer though, with their Netball Mens team adding a fifth medal after the Technical Committee awarded the bronze to them as well as their opponents, Delhi, following a tie in their bronze medal play-off. Meanwhile, Riya Saboo of Telangana bagged top honours in the Quad freestyle Skating (Artistic) event.
Gujarats ace shooter Elavenil Valarivan gave the hosts their fourth gold while Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, path-breaking fencer Bhavani Devi and wrestler Divya Kakaran, lived up to their top billing with yellow metals in their respective events.
The athletics arena at IIT, Gandhinagar, however, was on fire, with as many as nine Games records falling during the course of the action-packed day. Munita Prajapati (Uttar Pradesh), daughter of a construction labourer, and 17-year-old Parvej Khan (Services) were the stars of the day, with Munita setting the first record of this edition in the Womens 20km walk. She clocked a commendable 1 hour 38 minutes 20 seconds.
Parvej Khan, then, did one better, breaking the highly-rated Bahadur Prasads 28-year-old Games record in the mens 1500m to the delight of the fraternity. He slashed nearly two seconds off his personal best time to win the metric mile gold in 3:40. 89.
2018 Asian Games decathlon champion Swapna Barman, competing in Madhya Pradesh colours here, claimed the womens High Jump record with a clearance of 1. 83m while Praveen Chithravel (Tamil Nadu) made light of a depleted Triple Jump field to win gold with a Games record effort of 16. 68m. Damneet Singh (Punjab) in the mens Hammer Throw and Kiran Baliyan (Uttar Pradesh) in womens Shot Put also entered the record books.
In the mens 100m semifinals, Amlan Borgohain (Assam) also broke the National Games record, set at 10. 45 seconds by Haryanas Dharambir Singh in Thiruvananthapuram in 2015. Amlan Borgohain, who has been in good form this season, stopped the clock at 10. 28 seconds, two-hundredths of a second outside the National Record held by Amiya Kumar Mallick since 2016.
Powered by Ankita Raina, Gujarat womens team continued their march into the tennis final with an easy win over Karnataka. They will start favourites in the gold medal match against Maharashtra at the Riverside Sports Complex on Saturday.

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