Ranchi, Feb 21 (PTI): Gurpreet Kaur bagged two gold medals as international rider Ch Rameshori Devi continued her golden run with her fourth yellow metal at the Sidho Kanhu Velodrome in the 34th National Games here today.
Riding on Gurpreet and Rameshori''s performances, Manipur and Punjab bagged two gold medals each to dominate the competition.
Having claimed a hat-trick of gold medals yesterday, Rameshori clinched the women''s 200m sprint, pipping her statemate K Suchitra Devi and stopping the clock at 13.876.
Kerala''s Kezia Verghese settled for the third spot.
Manipur clinched their second gold in cycling in men''s 200m sprint through O Bikram Singh. Asia Cup (Japan round) bronze medallist Bikram Singh clinched his second gold when he stopped the clock at 13.338 en route to the 200m sprint title.
Punjab''s Amrit Singh and R L Manoj of Services bagged the second and third spots respectively.
Pankaj Kumar of Haryana clinched the men''s 6km scratch title with a timing of 09:51.30 as Amandeep Singh (Punjab) and Manpreet Singh Kalsi of Maharashtra settled for silver and bronze.
Gurpreet earned Punjab the title in women''s 4km scratch clocking 07:27.723, while Rejani V (Kerala) and T Nita Devi (Manipur) bagged the silver and bronze medal.
She bagged her second gold of the day logging 25 points en route to the title in the 16km points race as Th Helen Devi of Manipur (21) was pushed to the second spot.
Rejani V of Kerala logged 17 for the third place.
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Services, Manipur win gold in fencing
Ranchi, Feb 21 (PTI) Services and Manipur bagged the two gold medals on offer in the fencing competition of the 34th National Games here today.
Vijay Kumar earned Services the individual gold while Tuka Ram of Andhra Pradesh bagged the silver and Gourav Gupta (Chandigarh) and Rajeshwar (Manipur) got the bronze medals.
Manipur women''s team clinched the team gold in the epee event as Punjab bagged the silver, while Kerala and Chhattisgarh bagged the two bronze medals.
