The 38th National Games 2025 running in Uttarakhand is moving at its full pace. It has been 4 days of the games and many states have opened their account, but if any one athlete has created the most panic, then it is 14 -year -old Dhinidhi Desinghu. This swimmer coming from Karnataka has won his fifth gold medal, leaving everyone behind in the pool. Despite this, Karnataka has fallen from the first place in the medal tally and now services have reached the top.

Swimmers of Karnataka including Dhinidhi

Dhinidhi, who took part in the Paris Olympics, made a tremendous start by winning 3 gold medals on the first day of the National Games. On Saturday 1 February, Dhinidhi won its 5th gold in women's 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay. In this relay event, Karnataka team also included Shirin, Shalini R Dixit and Meenakshi Menon in this relay event. In this event, Gujarat won silver and Maharashtra won bronze medals.

But not only Dhinidhi, but experienced swimmer Srihari Nataraja also played an important role in maintaining swimming for Karnataka. Nataraja, one of the top men's swimmers in India, put the gold medal in the team relay in the men's 4 × 200 meter freestyle and in the bag of Karnataka. The team of Srihari, Dakshan S, Shon Ganguly and Aneesh S Gowda won the time of 7: 45.82 minutes. Apart from these, Sajan Prakash of Kerala won the men's 200 meter butterfly gold medal with 2: 01.40 minutes. At the same time, Dhriti Ahirwal of Maharashtra won the gold medal at the women's butterfly event.

Services secured first place

As far as medal tally is concerned, the services entered the first place in a bang. On Saturday, the services players won 8 medals including 5 gold medals and secured first place. He is currently at the top with a total of 26 medals including 14 gold. At the same time, Karnataka is in second place, which has 23 medals with 13 gold medals in the bag so far. At the same time, Manipur, who stood first on Friday, rolled in fourth place the next day. He currently has 24 medals in his account but it has only 11 gold. At the same time, Maharashtra is in third place, which has won the highest number of 41 medals including 11 gold and 18 silver.