BASKETBALL

Men (Group B): Punjab 80 (Parminder Singh Sr 19, Vipin Kumar 9) bt Uttar Pradesh 30 (Suresh Kumar 20); Bihar 75 (Shahid Qureshi 27, Jaldeep Dhaliwal 16, Cyril Miranda 11) bt Rajasthan 68 (Mahindra Singh 27, Ashok Kumar 20)Women (Group A): Andhra Pradesh 56 (Yamuna Philip 22, U P Laiji 8, A Anandi 8) bt Karnataka 51 (M R Savitha 18, Jayawanthi Shyam 12); West Bengal 58 (Rekha Choudhary 14, Aparna Ghosh 18, Preeti Vanita 10) bt Kerala 36 (Bini Kurien 10, Sini George 9); Group B: Maharashtra 72 (Ivy Cherian 18, Arnika Gujjar 12) bt Punjab 47 (Prabjot Gill 17, Shivani 11); Chandigarh 58 (Amrita Jasmaine 12, Sheeba Maggan 17, Poonam 13) bt MP 52 (Shruti Sharma 16, Nishita 10)

FENCING

Men: Epee individual event: 1 Jai Kumar V (Har); 2 Hemanta Singh (Del); 3 Mohit Ashwani (Har) and N A Mathew (Pun)Women: Foil individual event: 1. Claramma James (Kar); 2. Charanjit Kaur (Pun); 3. Vaishali P Nagulkar (Mah) and L Sittanathoibu Devi (Manipur).Epee individual event: 1. Prathiba (Kar), 2. Yasodha (Kar)WEIGHTLIFTING

Men (54 kg): 1. T Muthu (TN) snatch (107.5 kg + cj 132.5) Total 240 kg (Games record); 2 A K Pandian (Mah) 225 kg (100+125); 3 Srikanth Mudi (WB) 225 kg (100+125)Women (46 kg): 1 Madhura Sinhasane (Mah) snatch 60 kg + cj 77.5 kg Total 137.5 kg; 2. Tikina Gopal (Ori) 130 kg (57.5+72.5); 3 Inderjit Kaur (Pun) 120 kg (55+65)

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