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Karnataka swimmer Srihari Nataraj (8 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) was adjudged the Best Male Athlete while gymnasts Sanyukta Prasen Kale of Maharashtra and Pranati Nayak of Odisha (4 gold, 1 silver each) were adjudged the Best Female Athletes.
Bagging a total of 58 medals in Goa, Odisha bettered its previous best haul of 26 medals at the 36th Natinal Games held in Gujarat from 29 September to 12 October 2022. With the 26 medals, which included four gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze, Odisha finished 17th in the medal tally.
Odisha Olympic Association had fielded a 275-member State contingent in the 36th edition. Odisha contingent, featuring more than 300 sportspersons for 31 disciplines, was sent by the Department of Sports & Youth Services, Government of Odisha. But the names of the Odisha sportspersons were not disclosed.
But the website of Goa National Games, featured names of sizeable number of players from other states in Odisha contingent. The imported players secured around 15 medals for Odisha. Prominent among them was West Bengal gymnast Pranati Nayak who garnered four gold and one silver.
Woman cycling ace Swasti Singh was second most successful sportsperson of the Odisha contingent, winning one gold and three bronze medals. Woman Olympic sprinter Srabani Nanda was another outstanding Odisha achiever, winning 200m gold and 100m silver.
Odisha bagged highest number of nine medals in kayaking & canoeing, followed by eight in artistic gymnastics, seven in athletics, five in sqay martial arts, four in pencak silat, three in lawn bowls and two in swimming.
In team sports, Odisha women captured football gold defeating Manipur in final. Odisha women also emerged champions in rugby sevens, while both the men and women kho-kho teams secured silver.
But Odisha came cropper in hockey despite spending thousands of crores in building world class stadiums, setting up high performance centres and hosting most of the national and international competitions, including two World Cups.
ODISHA MEDAL WINNERS:
25 October:
Bronze (Weightlifting): Jhilli Dalabehera (Women 49kg).
Bronze (Weightlifting): Sneha Soren (Women 55kg).
26 October:
Gold (Artistics Gymnastics): Pranati Nayak (Women individual all-around).
27 October:
Gold (Rugby 7s): Odisha Women Team (Hupi Majhi, Nirmalya Rout, Tarulata Naik, Sandhyarani Tudu, Dumuni Marndi, Mama Naik, Sunita Hansdah, Malini Soy, Rina Singh, Kabita Kasturi Padihari, Arati Murmu).
Gold (Artistics Gymnastics): Pranati Nayak (Women table vault).
Gold (Artistics Gymnastics): Pranati Nayak (Women uneven bars).
Silver (Artistics Gymnastics): Tapan Mohanty (Men still rings).
Silver (Pencak silat): Asutosh Pujari, Ganesh Pujari and Rabindra Bhatta (Men regu team event).
Bronze (Rugby 7s): Odisha Men Team (Suguda Majhi, Binod Marandi, Ashok Hansdah, Jugal Kishore Majhi, Rajkishore Murmu, Bibhuti Bhusan Sethy, Asis Sabar, Shanawaz Ahmed, Narayan Sahu, Ajit Kumar Hansdah, Ganesh Dhangada Majhi, Sale Majhi).
Bronze (Weigthtlifting): Suresh Yadav (Men 96kg).
28 October:
Gold (Artistics Gymnastics): Pranati Nayak (Women balancing beam).
Silver (Artistics Gymnastics): Pranati Nayak (Women floor exercise).
Silver (Artistics Gymnastics): Mohammad Anas (Men table vault).
Silver (Artistics Gymnastics): Tapan Mohanty (Men parallel bars).
Bronze (Pencak silat): Yashwant Luhar (Men tending, 60-65 kg)
Bronze (Pencak silat): A Aswini Rao (Women tending, 60-65kg).
29 October:
Silver (Athletics): Srabani Nanda (Women 100m run).
Silver (Pencak silat): Plizalin Tarai (Women tending, 70-75 kg).
Bronze (Athletics): Swadhin Kumar Majhi (Men high jump).
Bronze (Swimming): Shristi Upadhaya (Women 100m butterfly).
30 October:
Silver (Athletics): A Graceson Jeeva (Men 110m hurdles).
Bronze (Swimming): Shristi Upadhaya, Pratyasa Ray, Mannata Mishra, Sonia Patel (Women 4x100m medley relay).
31 October:
Silver (Athletics): Amiya Kumar Mallick, Dondapati Mrutyam Jayaram, Lalu Prasad Bhoi, Aryan Ekka (Men 4x100m relay).
1 November:
Silver (Taekwondo): Sabita Ranchiary (Women U-57 kg).
Bronze (Wushu): Biram Tudu (Men taolu category).
Bronze (Rowing): Sanjukta Dungdung, Sweeti, Anshika Bharti, Reshma Kumar Minz (Women quadruple sculls).
Bronze (Rowing): Ritu Kaudi, Sonali Swain (Women coxless pair).
2 November:
Gold (Athletics): Srabani Nanda (Women 200m run, 23.69s).
Bronze (Athletics): Animesh Kujur (Men 200m run, 20.99s).
Bronze (Cycling): Swasti Singh (Women 10 km scratch race, ).
Bronze (Cycling): Swasti Singh (Women 3km individual pursuit, 03:58.003s).
3 November:
Gold (Mini Golf): Abhipsa Panda & Bikash Chandra Pattnaik (Mixed doubles).
Silver (Taekwondo): Jhanvi Mazumder (Janhabi Majumdar), (Women 73+ kg).
Bronze (Athletics): Kishore Kumar Jena (Men javelin throw, 78.47m).
Bronze (Sepak takraw): Itishree Samal, Allaka Srabani, Rupali Sahoo, Gayatri Sahoo, Simran Ekka, Sangita Kisan (Women Quad).
Bronze (Sepak takraw): Itishree Samal, Allaka Srabani, Sangita Kisan (Women double).
4 November:
Silver (Kayaking & Canoeing): Tomthilnganba Ngashepam and Khangembam Nanao Meitei (Men 1000m kayak pair, 3:44.00s).
Bronze (Kayaking & Canoeing): Phairembam Borish Singh & Avinash Shingham (Men 1000m canoe pair, 4:37.630s).
Bronze (Cycling): Swasti Singh (Women omnium individual, 129 points).
Bronze (Lawn Bowl): Roshni Sahu, Rajeswari Seth, Bishnupriya Bohidar and Padmasinee Putel (Women fours).
5 November:
Gold (Women Football): Odisha (Jabamani Tudu, Arifa Zaheer, Supriya Routray (Captain), Munica Minz, Jasoda Munda, Pyari Xaxa, Grace Lalrampari Hauhnar, S Lynda Kom, Bannya Kabiraj, Mamata Patra, Malati Munda, Juli Kishan (Vice-Captain), Subhadra Sahoo, Manisha Naik, Manju Ganjhu (GK), Pragyan Kishan, Sumitra Hembram, Spandita Das (GK), Shibani Mundari, Sonia Ekka).
Gold (Kayaking & Canoeing): Fulmani Xaxa and Bidya Devi (Women 500m kayak pair).
Bronze (Kayaking & Canoeing): Sachima Karketta and Rasmita Sahoo (Women 500m canoe pair).
6 November:
Gold (Rowing): Shagandeep Singh and Sanjukta Dungdung (Costal mixed doubles, 02:36.1s).
Silver (Kayaking & Canoeing): Tomthilnganba Ngashepam, Thongam Rahul Singh, Khangembam Nanao Meitei and Suraj Bijale (Men 500m kayak fours).
Silver (Kayaking & Canoeing): Oinam Bidya Devi, Shruti Chougule, Roji Devi and Fulmani Xaxa (Women 500m kayak fours).
7 November:
Silver (Kayaking & Canoeing): (Men 200m Kayak 1).
Bronze (Kayaking & Canoeing): Salam Arshi Devi (Women 200m canoe individual).
8 November:
Gold (Cycling): Swasti Singh (Women 75 km mass start, road cycling).
Silver (Kho-kho): Odisha women team (Sasmita Nath Sharma, Sabila Khatun, Kadambini Majhi, Madhusmita Ojha, Ananya Pradhan, Arachana Majhi, Ranjeeta Barik, Priyanka Sing, Arachana Pradhan, Subhashree Sing, Magai Majhi, Smaranika Sahoo, Champa Majhi, Rupali Pradhan, Nandita Kujur).
Silver (Kho-kho): Odisha men team (Debendra Nath, Jagannath Murmu, Lipun Mukhi, T Jagannath Das, Niranjan Samal, Deepak Sahoo, T Balaram Das, Bharat Pradhan, Vishal Oram, Pabani Sabar, Teppala Sankar, Arjun Singh, Ajay Mandra, Chandan Sahoo, Siddheswar Tudu).
Silver (Sqay Martial Art): Kunda Majhi (K3 Women)
Silver (Sqay Martial Art): Parveen Asif (ASI Women).
Bronze (Sqay Martial Art): Dil Afroz (Women 74 kg).
Bronze (Sqay Martial Art): Minati Sahoo (Women 62 kg).
Bronze (Sqay Martial Art):
Bronze (Lawn Bowl): Kailash Majhi, Sourav Ranjan Maharana, Tarini Prasad Nayak, Narasingha Rana (Men fours).
Bronze (Lawn Bowl): Lalit Sharma (Men singles).
ODISHA MEDALS BY SPORT (Read as Sport, Gold, Silver, Bronze & Total): Athletics 1+3+3= 7, Cycling 1+0+3= 4, Football 1+0+0= 1, Gymnastics 4+4+0= 8, Kayaking & Canoeing 1+4+4= 9, Kho-kho 0+2+0= 2, Lawn Bowls 0+0+3= 3, Mini Golf (Demo) 1+0+0= 1, Pencak Silat 0+2+2= 4, Rowing 1+0+2= 3, Rugby 1+0+1= 2, Sepak Takraw 0+0+2= 2, Sqay Martial Arts 0+2+3= 5, Swimming 0+0+2= 2, Taekwondo 0+1+1= 2, Weightlifting 0+0+3= 3, Wushu 0+0+1= 1.
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TOP: Odisha cycliing icon Swasti Singh shows one of her medals at the 37th National Games in Goa.
RIGHT: Odisha duo, Abhipsa Panda and Bikash Chandra Pattnaik pose with their gold medal in mini golf mixed double event of the 37th National Games in Goa on 3 November 2023.
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