JOIN US Naveen John Thomas fetched Karnataka’s third gold medal of the 35th National Games, emerging triumphant in the 36-km individual time trial in the cycling event.
Naveen clocked 50 minutes 08.047 seconds to finish on top in a field of eight cyclists.The 28-year-old left behind Arvind Panwar of Maharashtra and Amit Jangara of Services in second and third positions. Arvind clocked 50:28.373 for the silver while Amit took the bronze in 50:44.648.
Rejani Vijayakumari of Kerala claimed the gold medal in the women’s 72-km mass start event. She clocked two hours 29 minutes 40.58 seconds. Rejani had to fight hard to ward off Seema Rani of Haryana, who was a close second in 2:29:40.622. Anjitha Subalithan T P of Kerala took the bronze, 2:29.40.645.
Medals tally
TEAM G S B T
Services 42 12 13 67
Maharashtra 26 35 26 87
Haryana 26 18 7 51
Kerala 16 13 22 51
Punjab 11 16 16 43
Madhya Pradesh 11 10 20 41
Tamil Nadu 9 5 14 28
Manipur 6 4 4 14
Gujarat 6 3 5 14
Tripura 5 0 0 5
Delhi 4 6 16 14
Andhra Pradesh 4 3 5 12
Assam 4 0 6 10
Karnataka 3 13 14 30
Telangana 3 6 2 11
Odisha 3 2 1 6
Uttar Pradesh 2 21 19 42
West Bengal 2 10 24 36
Chhattisgarh 2 3 1 6