{"id":91214,"date":"2023-10-26T20:14:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=91214"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:44:40","slug":"national-games-goa-clinch-one-gold-silver-and-bronze-from-modern-pentathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=91214","title":{"rendered":"National Games: Goa clinch one gold, silver and bronze from Modern Pentathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Goa Khabar: Hosts Goa had a lot to cheer for on the day the 37th National Games were officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as their Modern Pentathlon contingent clinched a gold, silver and bronze medal from the five events that were held at Ponda on Thursday.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Babu Gaonkar, a 22-year-old tribal from Netravali village in Sanguem, clinched the gold medal in the Men\u2019s Laser Run category with a timing of 12:26.27 sec to kick off the proceedings.<\/div>\n
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This was Goa\u2019s first medal of the Games after coming close on a couple of occasions. The son of a tractor mechanic then teamed up with Seeta Gosavi to bag the mixed relay silver and the women\u2019s laser run team won the bronze medal.<\/div>\n
In the mixed team relay, Gaonkar and Gosavi set a timing of 16:01.50 to finish behind Anju and Ravi of Haryana, who clocked a time of 15:23.91.<\/div>\n
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In the women\u2019s laser run, Madhya Pradesh bagged the gold while Maharashtra clinched silver.<\/div>\n
There was something to cheer for Goa from the Netball arena as well with their men\u2019s team registering a second successive win in Fast5 category to assure themselves a semi-final spot.<\/div>\n
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In the opening Pool A match, Goa defeated Uttar Pradesh 33-20 and then got the better of Rajasthan 40-28.<\/div>\n
The women\u2019s team, however, was knocked out after losing to Himachal Pradesh 24-15 and Kerala 26-24.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Goa Khabar: Hosts Goa had a lot to cheer for on the day the 37th National Games were officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as their Modern Pentathlon contingent clinched a gold, silver and bronze medal from the five events that were held at Ponda on Thursday. Babu Gaonkar, a 22-year-old tribal from Netravali […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":91215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-91214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91216,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91214\/revisions\/91216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}