KIUG 2021: Siva Sridhar seals seven gold medals, upsets in Archery Range and Boxing comes to a close

Thursday
marked
the
final
day
of
swimming.
Jain
University
dominated
the
pool
winning
14
gold
across
the
competition.
The
host
university’s
Siva
Sridhar
was
the
undoubted
star,
having
won
seven
gold
and
two
silver
in
the
pool.
His
haul
is
more
than
that
of
the
previous
edition’s
most
successful
athletes
(Siddhant
Sejwal
and
Sadhvi
Dhuri
–
five
gold
each).

A
deluge
of
upsets
was
served
at
the
archery
competition
which
kicked
off
at
the
Jain
Global
campus
today.
First
to
fall
was
Muskan
Kirar
of
Rani
Durgavati
Vishwavidyalaya
in
the
compound
women’s
singles.

Kirar
had
topped
the
qualification
round,
but
failed
to
get
going
in
the
day,
falling
to
the
last
place
qualifier,
Sneh
Rani
of
Guru
Nanak
Dev
University
135-139.
Rani
was
knocked
out
in
the
very
next
round
by
Punjabi
University’s
Sujata.

Last
year’s
silver
medallist
Raginee
Markoo
progressed
through
the
competition
steadily
only
to
fall
in
the
semi-finals
herself.
Kirar’s
teammate,
Markoo
lost
to
Sant
Gadge
Baba
Amravati
University’s
Madhura
Dhamangaonkar
140-146.

The
upsets
rolled
on
in
the
men’s
compound
too.
Punjabi
University’s
Kulwinder
Singh
and
Sangampreet
Bisla
had
finished
first
and
second
in
the
men’s
compound
qualification
yesterday.
Just
like
in
the
women’s
though,
the
top
seed,
Kulwinder
fell
at
the
very
first
knockout
round,
losing
to
Shivaji
University’s
Kunal
Shinde
143-141.

Bisla
made
it
through
the
first
round
but
fell
to
Guru
Nanak
Dev
University’s
Hritik
Sharma
via
shoot-off
in
the
very
next
round.
Both
archers
had
shot
144,
and
9
in
the
shoot-off.
Hritik
won
on
the
basis
of
his
arrow
being
closer
to
the
centre.

Hritik
said
he
was
using
the
Khelo
India
University
Games
experience
as
a
launchpad
for
his
season.
“I’ll
go
to
the
Jr
Nationals
after
this
so
it
was
crucial
I
put
up
a
good
show
here,”
he
said.
“No
matter
the
opponent,
this
sport
is
about
your
own
mental
strength,
your
performance.
And
you
have
to
look
inward.
Today
was
the
same.
I
made
some
mistakes,
which
I
need
to
work
on.”
Hritik
was
beaten
in
the
semis
by
Delhi
University’s
Tanishdeep
Singh.

25
boxing
medals
(12
women,
13
men)
were
decided
today,
concluding
an
exciting
event.
In
the
women’s
competition,
26
different
universities
won
a
medal,
with
eleven
different
universities
winning
gold
in
the
12
weight
categories
–
Ch.
Ranbir
Singh
University
is
the
only
one
winning
two
gold,
in
the
48-50kg
and
60-63kg
weight
categories.
Five
of
these
eleven
are
from
Haryana.
The
men’s
event
was
no
different,
with
11
universities
dividing
up
the
13
categories
(Lovely
Professional
University
the
ones
to
win
three
gold).

Olympians
MM
Somaya,
Anil
Aldrin,
Sandeep
Somesh
and
Ravi
Nayakar
were
present
at
the
boxing
venue
in
the
Jain
Global
Campus,
for
the
medal
ceremonies.
Somaya,
a
gold
medallist
in
hockey
from
Moscow
in
1980
commended
the
infrastructure
at
the
venue.
“I
watched
boxing,
archery,
swimming
and
Judo.
I
was
there
at
the
hockey
venue
in
the
morning,”
he
said.
“I
am
quite
happy
to
see
the
level
of
competition
at
the
Khelo
India
University
Games.”

There
will
be
ten
medals
up
for
grabs
on
Day
six
at
the
games,
six
in
Judo
and
four
from
shooting.

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