Suryaksh shocks second-seed Saneeth, to take on Sathish for men’s badminton gold
The Hindu
Unseeded Suryaksh Rawat shines in badminton, while Tamil Nadu's S. Rudramayan and Mehak Sharma excel in weightlifting.
After keeping everyone guessing for the last few days, host Uttarakhand’s World No. 10 Lakshya Sen pulled out of the National Games badminton competition but Suryaksh Rawat nicely made up for the disappointment in the home camp by packing off Karnataka’s second-seeded D.S. Saneeth and entering the men’s singles final.
Just 16, the unseeded Rawat came up with a stunning display in the semifinal, recovering from 15-19, and took the last six points to win the decider 13-21, 22-20, 21-19.
“I didn’t make many mistakes, I kept it simple, went for long strokes,” said Rawat who will meet Tamil Nadu’s top-seeded K. Sathish Kumar in Tuesday’s gold-medal clash.
Meanwhile, in weightlifting, Tamil Nadu’s S. Rudramayan broke the snatch national record raising it to 175kg (OR 172) in the men’s plus-109kg event but could only end up with the overall silver (total 355kg). Services’ Lovepreet Singh took the gold with 367kg.
“I was expecting gold but clean-and-jerk let me down a bit,” said Rudramayan. “My dad Soronamuthu, a Commonwealth Games medallist in 1990, is my coach.
Later Punjab’s Mehak Sharma was on a record-breaking spree in the women’s above 87kg event, bettering the records in snatch (new 106kg), clean-and-jerk (141) and total (247) to win the gold comfortably.
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