On the first day of the 38th National Games started in Uttarakhand, some amazing performances and some shocking results were seen. The first day of the Games was named after the 14 -year -old swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu, who performed amazing in the swimming pool and put a gold medal. At the same time, some results in the shooting were as expected, but the experienced pistol shooter and Silver Medalist of London Olympics Vijay Kumar could not do the qualifying. Overall, the first day was named after the swimmers of Karnataka, who won many gold medals.

Karnataka swimming pan

Talking about the swimming matches happening in Haldwani, the 14 -year -old Desinghu, who came from Karnataka, got a lot of discussion last year. At such a young age, he represented India at the Paris Olympics. However, he did not get success in Paris, but in the National Games, he showed that he is the future of India in this sport. Desinghu won the gold medal with a time of 2 minutes 3:24 seconds in women's 200m freestyle.

Apart from this, the emerging swimmer of Karnataka also captured Gold in 100 meter butterfly. Desinghu did not stop here and completed the hat -trick of 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay by winning his name. Karnataka's golden jump in swimming pool did not stop here and experienced Indian Olympics Srihari Natraj also won 2 gold medals. Nataraja also approved the name of Karnataka on the men's 200m freestyle and 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay. Apart from this, Karnataka also received 2 silver medals in swimming on the first day. Apart from Karnataka, only Tamil Nadu could win the gold medal in swimming on the first day.

Vijay Kumar gets disappointment

At the same time, veteran shooter Vijay Kumar, who was representing Himachal Pradesh, was disappointed in the ongoing shooting matches in Dehradun. Vijay Kumar, who created history by winning the silver medal of pistol shooting at the London Olympics, failed to qualify for men's rapid fire rounds. In this event, Vijayveer Singh Sidhu of Punjab was number 1 with 587 points, while Aneesh Bhanwala (582) of Haryana, Neeraj Kumar (579) of Army, Bhavesh Shekhawat (577) of Rajasthan and Omkar Singh (574) Gurpreet of Army Singh (574) also reached the finals.

Ramita reached the final

On the other hand, female shooter Ramita Jindal, who won the bronze medal in the Asian Games, secured first place in the qualification of 10 meter air rifle. During this time he obtained 634.9 points. Ramita finished second and Narmada Raju of Tamil Nadu finished third. Vinod of Vidarsa of Kerala got fourth place. Shreya Aggarwal (632.0) of Madhya Pradesh, Elavenil Valarivan (631.9) of Gujarat, Meghna Sajjanar (631.2) of Karnataka and Manyata Singh (630.1) of Odisha are other shooters to make a place in the finals on Thursday.