The squad, which had earlier clinched both the men's and women's team titles, claimed three more titles today -- men's singles, women's singles and doubles. Andhra lost the lone gold in the men's doubles to Kerala's top-seeded pair of George Thomas and Marcose Bristow at the DM College Indoor Stadium here.

Veteran Gopi Chand, who will be leading the National team for the World Championship to be held in Copenhagen this May, gave no chance to second seed Sachin Ratti of Punjab in the men's singles final. He took only 45 minutes to clinch the singles title with a score of 15-0 15-6.

Top seed PVV Lakshmi picked up her second gold by thrashing second seed Neelima Choudhury 11-9 2-11 11-4.

Maharashtra's Nirmala Kotnis and Andhra's CH Deepti got bronze.

Results

Men singles(final): Gopi Chand bt Sachin Ratti 15-0 15-4; Bronze: JS Vidyadhar (AP) and Mangrish Palekar (Mah); Doubles: George Thomas & Marcose Bristow (Ker) bt Gopi Chand & Chetan Anand (AP) 15-12 15-11; Bronze: Bhushan Akut & Amrish Shinde (Mah), VD Singh & ND Singh (Pun).

Women singles (final): PVV Lakshmi (AP) bt Neelima Choudhary (AP) 11-9 2-11 11-4; (semis): Neelima bt Nirmala Kotnis (Mah) 11-0 8-11 11-6; Lakshmi bt CH Deepti (AP) 11-8 11-7

Punjab sweep equestrian honours

The Punjab equesterian team completed a clean sweep of the equesterian gold, picking up all six on offer, besides two silver and one bronze, as competitions concluded today.

So complete was their domination that second-placed Karnataka got just three silver. Today, the Punjab riders picked up both gold on offer.

It was a grand comeback, as Punjab had managed just one gold in the last National Games.

Assam had a sound debut, picking up three bronze while Manipur logged one silver.

Results

Tent pegging(team): 1 Punjab (Jagdhish Singh, Talwinder Singh, Satpal Singh, Jasvir Singh); 2 Manipur; 3 Assam; Show junping: Varun Sharma (Pun), PC Kumarswamy (Kar), Jagdish Singh (Pun).

Bihar beat UP

Strong contenders Bihar registered a facile 2-0 victory over Uttar Pradesh in a Pool A league match, while fancied Manipur were held to a 1-1 draw by Orissa in a Pool B encounter in women's hockey today.

With three more league matches to go before the semi-finalists are spotted tomorrow, the fight would be between Bihar, Punjab and Chandigarh from Pool A, while in Pool B, Manipur, Orissa and Maharashtra are front-runners.

Results

Bihar 2 (Adeline Kerketta 19th, Pushpa Pradhan 46th) bt UP 0; Manipur 1 (T Nandini Devi 40th) drew Orissa 1 (Jacinta Toppo)

Archery

Sworo registers record, clinches fourth gold

Bihar's star archer Chekrovolo Sworo won her fourth gold in women's individual event with a new Games record, while the state's archers earned the women's team gold in thefifth National Games today.

Sworo, who had earlier clinched gold in 60m, 70m and the team event, beat Jhanu Hansda 106-96 in the women's individual to set a Games record. Falguni Chatterjee of Bihar, who defeated Swati Mukherjee of West Bengal by eight points (88-81) collected the bronze.

Results

Men's individual: MR Tirkey (Ser) 105, Manoj Kumar Murmu (UP) 101, Limba Ram (Bihar); Team: 1 UP (Satya Dey, Ved Kumar, Manoj Kumar) 237, 2 Bihar (LR Sanga, L Ram, MC Patel) 229, 3 Services.

Women's team: 1 Bihar (Tridala Banerjee, Sworo, Girija Devi) 202, 2 West Bengal (Tira Smanta, Sampha Ghosh, Swati Mukherjee) 176, 3 Manipur.

Nisha swims to two more medals

Karnataka mermaid Nisha Millet continued her gold hunt picking up two more medals in the 400 metre individual medley and 50m backstroke to take her tally to seven in women's swimming.

Results

Men

200m medley: Sebastian Xavier (Ker) 2:21.82, Deepak Singh (Delhi) 2:22.98, TA Sujith (SSCB) 2:25.52; 50mbackstroke: Senthil Kumar (Ker) 28.93s, Surjit Kumar (Beng) 29.04s, KS Arul Kumar 30.17s; 4x200 freestyle: 1 SSCB 8:41.52, 2 Karnataka 8:59.42, 3 Bengal 9:03.12;

Women

400m medley: Nisha Millet (Kar) 5:36.30, K Chitra (Kar) 5:49.42, Sumy Cyriac (Ker) 5:52.81; 50m backstroke: Nisha Millet (Kar) 33.96s; Reshma Millet (Kar) 34.64s, Sumy Cyriac 35.27s.

Delhi, Services share lead in shooting

On a day when three National Games records were shattered, Delhi and Services shared the medal tally in shooting events.

Services hold top position with four gold and four silver, while Delhi has four gold, two silver and two bronze.

Three Games records were broken in the Air rifle 10m (women), Air rile 10m (men) and free rifle prone 50m (men).

Results

Men:

Air rifle 10m: TC Pallangaga (Ser) 679.6 (New record: PR 667 C Deshmukh);

Free rifle prone 50m: Shankar (MP) 686.5 (New record: PR MT Sutar);

Sport rifle prone 10m: Kuneli Sengupta (Beng)580; Team: 1 Maharashtra, 2 Bengal, 3 Manipur;

Standard Pistol: Jaspal Rana 578 (New record, PR: 570), Ashok Pandit (Mah), Samresh Jung (Del); Team: 1 Delhi

Women

Air rifle 10m: Anjali Ved Pathak (Mah) 487 (New Games record: PR Suma Dixit 482 1997); Team: 1 Services, 2 Maharashtra, 3 MP.

Sports rifle three position: Suma Dixit (Mah) 653.2, Kuheli Gangulee (Beng) 650.2, Deepali Deshpande (Mah) 647; Team: 1 Maharashtra (Suma, Deepali, Anjali Ved Pathak) 1673, West Bengal 1573, Manipur 1314.

Sports rifle prone: Kuheli Gangulee (Beng) 580, Anjali Ved Pathak (Mah), Anuja Tere (Mah); Team: 1 Maharashtra (Anjali, Anuja, Suma Dixit) 1713, 2 Bengal 1688, Manipur 1524)

WB lose to Punjab

West Bengal's hopes of entering the last four stage of the football event of the fifth National Games rest on the spin of a coin.

In Group A, Bengal are tied with Assam at four points after they lost to Punjab 2-1 today. Both team have equal goal difference forcing the Games'management to decide the semi-finalist on the spin of a coin tomorrow.

Results

Punjab 2 (Same Lama, Prasanto Das) bt Bengal 1 (Srikanta Dutta); Kerala 1 drew Assam 1; Manipur 2 bt Goa 0.