MUMBAI, DEC 22: Maharashtra's gymnasts won seven gold, 20 silver and 26 bronze medals in the recently concluded 36th National Rolling Skating Championship held at the Vishakapatnam.The state also won the overall artistic championship trophy.
Medal winners Men (Speed Skating): Monish Lokhandwala (3 gold, 1 silver and won individual championship), Artistic Skating: Monish Lokhandwala (2 silver, individual championship), Mihir Jhaveri (1 gold, 1 silver); Boys 9-12: Pranav Kerkar (1 gold), Rahul Rahudkar (1 bronze), Harshal Mundal (1 bronze); Artistic Skating: Jeet Shroff (2 silver); Pair Skating: Jeet Shroff/ Ishita Desai (2 Bronze); 6-9 (Artistic Skating): Krish Patel (1 Bronze); Under 6 (Speed Skating): Aditya Desai (2 silver), Krishnakant Agrawal (2 silver); Artistic Skating: Dhanvin Mehta (1 silver, 1 bronze), Rahul Patel (1 Bronze)
Girls (above 16) speed skating: Ritu Kapai (2 bronze); 12-16 yrs (Speed Skating): Shradha Joshi (2bronze); Artistic Skating: Sweta Dattani (1 gold, 1 silver); 6-9 yrs (speed skating): Mansi Shenolkar (Nagpur, 2 silver, 1 bronze); Artistic Skating: Devanshi Undkat (1 bronze), Harshita Kothari (1 bronze); Under 6 (Speed Skating): Krishna Deshmukh (Pune, 2 silver)
Sujay best
Sujay Ghag of Malvi Gymnasium, Thane was adjudged as Malvi Mandal Sri in the the Thane district level amateur body-building contest organised by the Sri Malvi Mandal, Thane.
Results
(Group 1): Altaf Iswam (Pioneer), Deepak Dhage (Sri Anand Bharti Vyayamshala), Dinesh Mhatre (Hanuman Seva Mandal, Kalyan)
Group 2: Sujay Ghag (Malvis Gymnasium), Rajendra Raval (Shiv Shankar), Morvin Kariya (Malvis Gymnasium)
Group 3: Atul Kadam (Kanvinde, Dombivli), Pramkumar (Khatate Lawerence);
Group 4: Ganesh Koli (Aarya Krida Mandal), Rajesh Jadhan (Jaibhart, Karigoan), Ajay Singh (Lawerence, Thane)
Team Championship: Lawerence Health Club, Thane (13 points), MalvisGymnasium, Thane (11 points)
Space Travels tops
In a nail-biting finish requiring four runs of the last ball of the last over of Vikram Patil (Thomas Cook), Divakar Shetty hit an explosive cover-drive for four to help Space Travels to retain the title in the Cathay Pacific Sixes cricket tournament at the Islam Gymkhana.
RESULTS
Final: Thomas Cook 75-2 in 5 overs (Vivek Patil 33) lost to Space Travels 76-3 in 5 overs (Dilip Agarwal 33, Hersh Kemry 2-10).
Semi-finals: Gujarat Agents 36-3 in 5 overs lost to Space Travels 88-2 in 5 overs (Dilip Agarwal 32, Shaunak Parikh 28); Sachinam Travels 64-1 in 5 overs lost to Thomas Cook 69-2 in 5 overs.
Quarter-finals: Stop N Shop 49 in 5 overs (R Vyas 28) lost to Space Travels 51 in 3.2 overs (Hitesh Khambe 25); Cathay Pacific 59 in 5 overs (V Narkarni 35) lost to Gujarat Agents 60-1 in 4.3 overs (R Chisty 25 n.o., Rizwan Khan 22); Pune Agents 64-1 in 5 overs lost to Thomas Cook 72-4 in 5 overs (Vivek Patil 31); Blue Star 53-4 in 5overs lost to Sachinam Travels 55-1 in 4.1 overs.
Best Player: Hersh Kenny (Thomas Cook), prize: one free ticket to Mumbai/Hong Kong/Mumbai; Best Batsman: Dilip Agarwal (Space Travels), one free ticket to Mumbai/Bangkok/Mumbai; Best Bowler: Vinayak Gawas (Space Travels), one free ticket to Mumbai/Dubai/Mumbai.
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