NE Games: Manipur add 45 medals on 3rd day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 22 2012:
Manipur won 14 gold, 16 silver and 15 bronze medals on the third day of the 26th North East Games currently underway at Aizawl shooting up its overall medals tally to 24 gold, 28 silver and 23 bronze medals.
Wrestling: N Tombi (63 kg women) got gold, N Suresh (55 kg men) won silver and Th Jiten (90 kg men) bagged bronze.
Athletics: Ng David (800 m race men) and W Rajkumar (Long Jump men) won silver and L Jayenta (Tripple Jump) and Ng David (400 m race men) won bronze.
Hockey: Manipur eves settled at silver conceding defeat against Tripura 3-0 .
Manipur will meet Tripura for third place tomorrow.
Football: Manipur women entered final defeating Nagaland 6-0 .
Mizoram defeated Manipur 5-1 in men's football in the semi final.
Taekwondo: K Namita (49 kg women), Sunila Th (69 kg women) and Kh Sanatombi (above 73 kg women) won gold medal while S Bikramjit (80 kg men) bagged silver.
Th Basanti (57 kg women), W Armstrong (58 kg men), N London (68 kg men) and U Herojit (87 kg men) won bronze medals.
Judo: M Inaoton ( 66 kg men), L Sanatombi (52kg women), H Sunibala (above 57 kg women) bagged gold while Y Sangita (48 kg women) and M Kiranbala (57 kg women) got silver.
S Anilkumar (55 kg men), T Herojit ( 60 kg men) and Kh Ajit (66 kg men) won bronze.
Weightlifting: Th Somokanta (77 kg men), M Romanta (85 kg men) and YM Nafisha (75 kg women) got gold while O Geeta (69 kg women) bagged silver.
Th Kom (85 kg men) and Ak Nanaobi (98 kg men) got bronze.
Boxing: H Chaoba (57 kg women) bagged sold medal while S Neihan Kom (48 kg women), K Prabis Chanu (54 kg women), Y Sandhyarani (60 kg women), S Ronibala (64 kg women), L Tombisana (69 kg women), Kh Mocha (49 kg men), Ch Sushil (52 kg men) got silver.
K Oneithang Kom (56 kg men), N Narendrajit (69 kg men) and Kh Inaocha (75 kg men) got bronze.