National Games: Rajat, Purvasha hit the bull's-eye in compound

KOCHI: Asian Games gold-medal winning archer Rajat Chauhan of Rajasthan prevailed over his India teammate Abhishek Verma of Delhi to win the gold medal in the men's compound archery event at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sunday.
In an all Telengana fight, Isaiah Sanam prevailed over D Kranti Kumar 143-140 to pick up the bronze.
The women's compound gold was won by Andhra Pradesh's Purvasha Shende, who was a member of the Indian bronze-medal winning side at the Incheon Asian Games.Purvasha defeated her India teammate Trisha Deb, who also won an individual bronze at Inche on, 144-142 in the semifinal.
Rajat picked up two more medals as he led Rajasthan to gold in mixed team event and silver in men's team event. While they won against Punjab in the former event, they lost to the same opposition in the latter. The compound women's team event was won by Arunachal Pradesh.
In Thiruvananthapuram, the tennis action wound up with Tamil Nadu's Ramkumar Ramanathan clinching the men's singles gold by beating statemate Sriram Balaji 6-2, 6-4. The men's doubles gold went to the pair of Saketh Myneni and Vishnu Vardhan after they rallied to beat Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Natarajan 6-7 6-3 11-9.
Golden double for Ankita
The women's title was won by Gujarat's Ankita Raina, who staved off Maharashtra girl Prarthana Thombare 7-5, 6-3. It was a golden double for Ankita as she along with Eetee Maheta ended numero uno in women's doubles, getting the better of Telangana's Nidhi Chilumula and Sowjanya Bavisetti 6-2, 6-1. In Thrissur, Punjab's Smit Singh clinched the men's skeet gold on the final day of shotgun competitions at the Police Academy shooting range.
In the cycling competition being conducted near the Kovalam beach in Thiruvananthapuram, Rutuja Satpute of Maharashtra won the 28km Individual Time Trial Road Race for women gold by clocking 46 min 49.145 sec.