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Rajkot, Oct 8 (Ians) Olympian Srihari Nataraj (Karnataka) ended his campaign in the National Games swimming competition in a blaze of glory, capturing his sixth gold medal with a brilliant show in the men’s 100m Freestyle final at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex here on Saturday.

Srihari won in 50.41 seconds, setting a new National Games record time.

Throughout the week, he watched his senior Sajan Prakash (Kerala) claim five gold, two silver and a bronze medal. On Saturday, he stormed to a 100m Freestyle win, with Sajan Prakash finishing seventh. Srihari accomplished his mission of claiming the two freestyle sprint gold medals to add to the two backstroke titles besides anchoring the Karnataka relay squads to two gold.

S.P Likhit made a clean sweep of the three men’s breaststroke events by winning the 100m event on Saturday, helping Services to increase their haul of gold to 44 so far...

Gandhinagar, Oct 8 (Ians) Karnataka’s ace cyclist Naveen John successfully defended his men’s Individual Time Trial title in the National Games Road Cycling competition on the highway east of the Gujarat Capital.

Manipur’s Tongbram and Monorama Devi, who was a part of the Indian team in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, defeated Chayanika Gogoi (Assam) and Pooja Baban Danole (Maharashtra) to win the Women’s 85km Road Race on a cloudy morning.

Services and Maharashtra rallied to win the men’s and women’s gold medals in the Water Polo competition at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot. Services recovered to defeat Kerala 10-8 with two last-minute goals in a nail-biting men’s final while Maharashtra women beat Kerala 5-3 in the last round-robin match to win the title.

With five medals on Saturday from water polo, cycling and yogsana, Maharashtra went past Services in the total medal count.

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