Veteran Muni Ram Tirkey of Bengal and the promising Prativa Boro of Assam emerged the men's and women's champions in the recurve event of the 34th National Games archery competition at Jamshedpur on Thursday.
The men's field had all the best Indian archers in the fray — Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai, Mangal Singh Champia — but all lost early to lesser-known names. Tirkey, National champion in 1999, stopped Viswash Kumar of Services six sets to four.
Manjeet Singh of Jharkhand created a new Games record in the men's 94 kg section of the weightlifting event at Jamshedpur. He lifted 150 kg to erase the record of 142 set by Sukhwinder of Punjab in 1999.
The results: Archery: Recurve: Men: Final: M.R. Tirkey (Ben) bt Viswash (Ser) 6-4; Women: Final: Prativa Boro (Asm) bt Deepika Kumari (Jhr) 6-4; Compound: Men: Final: Abhishek Verma (Del) bt Ritul Chatterjee (AP) 5(10)-5(9); Women: Final: Sunita Rani (Pun) bt V.J. Sureka (AP) 7-3.
Weightlifting: Men: 85 kg: 1. Chandrakant Mali (Mah) 135+171=306, 2. Gobind Singh (J&K) 130+150=280; 94 kg: 1. Manjeet Singh (Jhr) 150+165= 315, 2. V. Christopher (Mah) 140+165=305, 3. Santosh Galgat (MP) 130+162=292 (Manjeet's snatch of 150 is NMR, old 142 by Sukhwinder Singh 1999).
Women: 69 kg: 1. Pratima Kumari (Jhr) 83+108=191, 2. K. Krishna Kumar (Del) 82+101=183, 3. Seeta Jena (Ori) 76+95=171; 75 kg: 1. L. Monika Devi (Jhr) 100+126= 226, 2. A. Janeshwari Devi (Bih) 90+106=196, 3. Premila Devi (Mnp) 83+106=189.
Cycling: Men's 70 km road time trial: 1. Services (Satbir, Sombir, Vinod Malik & Atul Singh) 1:31:19.88s, 2. Punjab 1:33:20.40, 3. Delhi 1:35:48.26.
Women's 42 km road time trial: 1. Manipur (Sunita, Suchitra, Helen & Rameshori) 1:05:17.88s, 2. Kerala 1:07:59.02, 3. Punjab 1:08:19.31.
Tennis: Team event: Semifinals: Men: Delhi bt AP 2-1.
Women: Delhi bt Karnataka 2-0.
