Olympian fencer Bhavani Devi of Tamil Nadu continued her domination in the women’s Sabre Individual Fencing event while hosts Goa opened their account with three medals from Modern Pentathlon in the 37th National Games on Thursday.
Bhavani Devi, who was the biggest star to be in action on the day the Games were officially declared open by the Prime Minister, defeated Kerala’s S Soumiya 15-5 in the final to win back to back National Games gold medals. Shiksha Ballouria of Himachal Pradesh and Jagmeet Kaur of Punjab won the bronze medals.
Earlier in the day, Babu Gaonkar gave the host their first gold medal of the games after winning the Men’s Laser Run event in Modern Pentathlon at Ponda. Ajay and Ravi of Haryana finished with silver and bronze. Later in the day, Babu teamed up with Seeta Gosavi to win the silver in the Laser Run mixed relay where Anju and Ravi of Haryana won the gold and Yoginee Salunke and Shahaji Sargar of Maharashtra won the bronze.
