NATIONAL GAMES | Animesh and Sudeshna emerge because the quickest athletes

Odisha’s Animesh Kujur, centre, wins the men’s 100m gold at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.

Odisha’s Animesh Kujur, centre, wins the boys’s 100m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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Can’t be!

That’s what everybody who had been watching the boys’s 100m last from the trackside appeared to say because the outcomes got here up on the enormous display screen a couple of seconds later. It confirmed Providers’ Manikanta Hoblidhar, the nationwide document holder with 10.23s, because the quickest man of the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games on the Ganga Stadium right here on Saturday. Manikanta even posed for the posse of keen cameramen.

But it surely was Odisha’s Animesh Kujur who appeared to have completed first. There had been some confusion someplace and a few 20 minutes later, through the medal ceremony, issues grew to become clear and Kujur returned sporting the dear gold medal.

Was he shocked when Manikanta was proven because the winner first?

Sudeshna Shivankar, centre, of Maharashtra claims the women’s 100m gold at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.

Sudeshna Shivankar, centre, of Maharashtra claims the ladies’s 100m gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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RITU RAJ KONWAR

“No, I knew I got here first. I didn’t have any doubt. My expectation was to interrupt the nationwide document, but it surely’s okay.,” mentioned Odisha’s Kujur who clocked 10.28s which equalled Amlan Borgohain’s Video games document set in 2022. Borgohain took the bronze, whereas Manikanta went with out a medal, taking the fifth spot in 10.46.

Kujur, not a robust starter, made up properly in direction of the end.

“My coach instructed me, don’t panic even in case you don’t get a superb begin, you’ve a superb top-end. Simply imagine that you simply’re going to do good,” mentioned Kujur who’s coached by Englishman Martin Owens on the Reliance Basis’s Odisha centre.

He has some huge objectives for this yr and that features breaking the 100m nationwide document although the 200m is his important occasion.

Sawan Barwal of Himachal Pradesh won gold and created a National Games record in the men’s 10000m at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.

Sawan Barwal of Himachal Pradesh gained gold and created a Nationwide Video games document within the males’s 10000m on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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RITU RAJ KONWAR

“Sure, within the senior Federation Cup… simply wait and watch,” he mentioned, elevating hopes throughout.

Kujur mentioned his coach was engaged on his begin.

“He’s doing one thing, one thing…I additionally don’t know what’s happening in his thoughts.”

In the meantime, Maharashtra’s Sudeshna Shivankar, final yr’s Khelo India College Video games champion, shocked prime names like R. Giridharani and Srabani Nanda to emerge because the quickest girl right here in 11.76s.

Tamil Nadu’s Pavithra Venkatesh and Baranica Elangovan made it a pleasant one-two in ladies’s pole-vault the place nationwide record-holder Rosy Meena Paulraj completed tenth.

Pavithra Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu won gold in women’s pole vault at the 38th National Games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.

Pavithra Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu gained gold in ladies’s pole vault on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Saturday, 08 February 2025.
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RITU RAJ KONWAR

Earlier, within the morning, Himachal Pradesh’s Sawan Barwal broke Nationwide document holder Gulveer Singh’s Nationwide Video games document within the mens’ 10,000m clocking 28:49.93s.

“I may have completed so much higher, however there was nobody to push me,” mentioned the 26-year-old.

The outcomes: Males: 100m: 1. Animesh Kujur (Odi) 10.28s EMR, 2. Pranav Gurav (Mah) 10.32, 3. Amlan Borgohain (Asm) 10.43. 1500m: 1. Yoonus Shah (Ser) 3:46.48s, 2. Ritesh Ohre (MP) 3:46.64, 3. Ram Singh (Utk) 3:50.24. 10,000m: 1. Sawan Barwal (HP) 28:49.93s, 2. Kiran Matre (Mah) 29:04.76, 3. Vinod Singh (MP) 29:43.60. Lengthy soar: 1. Shahnavaz Khan (UP) 7.70m, 2. V. Sriram (TN) 7.59, 3. C.V. Anurag (Ker) 7.56. Discus throw: 1 Gagandeep Singh (Ser) 55.01m, 2. Nirbhay Singh (Har) 54.07, 3. Alex P. Thankachan (Ker) 52.79.

Girls: 100m: 1. Sudeshna Shivankar (Mah) 11.76s, 2. Nithya Gandhe (Tel) 11.79, 3. R. Giridharani (TN) 11.88. 1500m: 1. Ok.M. Chanda (Del) 4:17.74s, 2. Ok.M. Deeksha (MP) 4:21.92, 3. Amandeep Kaur (Pun) 4:22.75. 10,000m: 1. Sanjivani Jadhav (Mah) 33:33.47s, 2. Ankita (Utk) 34:31.03, 3. Soniya (Utk) 35:45.19. Pole vault: 1. Pavithra Venkatesh (TN) 3.95m, 2. Baranica Elangovan (TN) 3.90, 3. Mariya Jaison (Ker) 3.90. Discus throw: Seema (Har) 52.70s, 2. Bhavana Yadav (Del) 51.82, 3. Amanat Kamboj (Pun) 49.94.

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