Final Up to date: January 13, 2023, 00:17 IST
Maharashtra State Olympic Video games Winners Pune (IANS)
Pune took 116 gold, 96 silver and 105 bronze medals for a complete of 317. Thane completed as runners-up grabbing 47 gold, 34 silver and 37 bronze whereas Kolhapur completed third
Pune have been topped champions on the concluding day of the Maharashtra State Olympic Video games after bagging 5 gold medals every in swimming and biking on the Balewadi Sports activities Advanced on Thursday.
The sporting powerhouse acquired the Champions Trophy from Divisional Commissioner Saurav Rao throughout the vibrant closing ceremony, drawing the curtains down on the 12-day competitors that had seen over 10,000 athletes combating for gold and glory in near 40 sports activities in 8 cities of Maharashtra.
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Total, Pune took 116 gold, 96 silver and 105 bronze medals for a complete of 317. Thane took residence the runners-up trophy, grabbing 47 gold, 34 silver and 37 bronze. Kolhapur completed third.
The Greatest Male Athlete was Rishabh Das of Thane, who fished out 5 gold from the swimming pool. The Greatest Feminine Athlete was Pune’s Shraddha Talekar, who additionally took 5 gold from gymnastics.
Welcoming the company, Sports activities Commissioner Suhas Divse mentioned, “We had an excellent occasion due to teamwork between the MOA and the Sports activities Division. The Maha Video games will go down as a historic occasion and do wonders to sports activities within the state.”
Chief visitor Saurav Rao identified that the federal government is extending all help and services to the athletes. “It’s as much as the athletes to make the most of this. I’m positive we are going to quickly produce Olympians,” he mentioned.
Maharashtra Olympic Affiliation secretary Namdev Shirodkar provided the vote of thanks.
On the final day of the Video games, 25 gold medals have been on provide in boxing and over a dozen in wushu. Although Pune wasn’t anticipated to dominate the medals tally in these two occasions, the contingent would have aimed to pocket just a few yellow metals to take care of their high standing after which financial institution of the swimming pool.
Pune, Thane and Mumbai had been the dominant groups within the swimming pool over the previous couple of days and issues have been no completely different on Thursday. Pune clinched 5 of the six gold medals within the girls’s class with Sadhavi Dhuri bagging a person double (50m butterfly and 100m freestyle) earlier than becoming a member of forces along with her different teammates to clinch the 4x200m and 4x50m freestyle gold medals.
Within the diving occasions, Solapur’s Esha Waghmode upset Nationwide Video games gold medallist Medhali Redkar of Mumbai to clinch the ladies’s 1m Springboard gold medal.
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