Olympian Bhavani Devi bagged the gold medal within the girls’s particular person saber class on the thirty third Senior National Fencing Championship on the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on Sunday. It used to be a double satisfaction for Bhavani Devi as her group Tamil Nadu additionally gained the gold within the girls’s saber group match by means of outplaying Kerala 45-34 within the last.
In the ladies’s saber particular person class, Bhavani Devi, the primary Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics, clinched her eleventh nationwide name after she outplayed V Sunny Alka of Kerala 15-9 in a pulsating summit conflict.
Bhavani had stormed into the general by means of prevailing over Punjab’s Jagmeet Kaur 15-11, whilst V Sunny Alka were given the simpler of Haryana’s Aakhiri 15-9 in some other semi-final. Bhavani were given a walk-over within the spherical of 64 after which she defeated Ritu Prajapati 15-3 in a lop-sided contest within the spherical of 32.
In the pre-quarterfinals, Bhavani stamped her authority as she outclassed Punjab’s Husanpreet Kaur 15-2. In the quarter-finals, Rishika Khajuria used to be as soon as once more no fit for Bhavani, who simply gained 15-7. In the senior girls’s foil class, Kerala’s Radhika Awati gained the gold medal, beating state-mate VP Kanagalakshmi 15-8.
Radhika had defeated Jammu and Kashmir’s Riya Bakshi 15-6 within the first semi-final, whilst Kanagalakshmi were given the simpler of Manipur’s Mina Naorem 15-7 in the second one semi-final. In the ladies’s saber group class, Tamil Nadu, comprising Bhavani Devi, JS Jefarlin, M Tamil Selvi, MR Beni Quebha, gained the gold medal after outclassing Kerala 45-34 within the last.
The Kerala group comprised Christy Jose Jona, Reesha Puthussary, S Sowmiya and V Sunny Alka. In the lads’s foil particular person class, Manipur’s Hemash Sanasam gained the gold medal after he defeated Ismile Khan (SSCB) within the last 13-12.
Sanasam had marched into the general after overcoming the problem of Bihar’s Akash Kumar 15-13, whilst Ismail Khan, who ended as runner-up, made it to the summit conflict by means of defeating Haryana’s Dev 15-14 in some other semi-final.