National Games 2025: Srihari Natraj also won 5th gold, top in services medal table

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|03-02-2025

In the ongoing National Games 2025 in Uttarakhand, only and only swimmers are present. Two swimmer of the same state has caught everyone's attention by putting a gold medal. These swimmers are Dhinidhi Desinghu and Srihari Nataraja. After the 14 -year -old Dhinidhi of Karnataka, Srihari of Karnataka also won the fifth gold by winning the fifth gold by winning 5 gold medals in the games. Karnataka has benefited from the success of these two, which is constantly made in the top-2 in the medal table. Apart from these, the players of the services also continued the process of success.

Nataraja won the fifth gold

Srihari Natraj, who represented India at the Paris Olympics, won the gold medal in the men's 100 meter backstroke on Sunday 2 February in 56.26 seconds. This is Srihari's fifth gold medal in these National Games, while so far a total of 6 medals have come in his bag. He left the sky behind Karnataka, who received the silver medal. At the same time, Maharashtra won the bronze of this event. Not only Karnataka, but Delhi also won two gold medals in swimming.

On the other hand, Jagdish Vishwakarma of Services in weightlifting took a gold medal by lifting a total weight of 345 kg in the 102 kg weight category. The special thing is that he lifted the weight of 195 kg in his clean and jerk and then surprised everyone by standing on one leg. At the same time, Vaishnav Thakur of Maharashtra, who broke the national record by lifting 160 kg in snatch, won the silver medal. At the same time, in the 81 kg category of women, the lineage of Chandigarh took 208 kg and won the gold medal.

Services still on top

Talking about the medal table, the services and Karnataka kept their positions in the top-2 for the second consecutive day. Services topped the total 33 medals (9 silver, 7 bronze) with 17 gold. After that Karnataka has won 33 medals including 15 gold medals, including 9 silver and 9 bronze. At the same time, it is third with Maharashtra (13 Gold, 23 Silver, 15 Bronze). Manipur (11 Gold, 9 Silver, 5 Bronze) remained at the top till two days ago.

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