Uttarakhand’s shine continues.. 10 more medals including two gold medals

Amaanullah Usmani

Dehradun – Uttarakhand continued to rain medals on Monday with its excellent performance in the National Games. The state has got 10 medals including two gold medals. Due to which the number of medals has increased to 77. These include 17 gold, 27 silver and 33 bronze medals.

Ankita Dhyani won the gold medal in 3000 meter race and Siddharth Rawat in Judo. While Prakhar, Sahil Malik, Anu Kumar and Praveen won silver medals in four times 400 meter relay race. Bhagirathi Rawat, Aarna Chauhan and Shraddha Joshi won silver medals in the Modern Pentathlon Team event. At the same time, Pradeep Rawat won the silver medal in Judo men’s 73 kg category.

While Ayush Mawadi in Judo men’s 66 kg category, Diya Chaudhary and Jaya Kapoor in lawn tennis women’s double category, Bhagirathi Rawat in modern pentathlon women’s individual event, Kanishka Joshi, Ansh Bisht and Surya Patel in men’s team event of the same competition and Sunita Shrestha in cycling won bronze medals.

Monday was the day of Uttarakhand’s daughter Ankita in the National Games. She won the first gold medal for the state in athletics by winning the gold medal in the 3000 meter steeplechase event. She ran so well in the athletics track that she became famous. After winning the silver medal in the 10 thousand meter race recently, she won this second medal in athletics.

Originally a resident of Merud village of Jayharikhal in Pauri district, Ankita initially ran in fourth place for about 200 meters, after which she had taken a good lead over the athletes of other states in the competition, which she maintained till the end and defeated everyone. According to Ankita, being in fourth place at the beginning of the race was part of her strategy. To test the athletes from other states of the country, he took slow steps and then speeded up the race.