Rameshori completes hat-trick of gold in cycling

RANCHI: Indian star rider Ch Rameshori Devi continued to dominate the cycling competition completing a hat-trick of gold medals in the 34th National Games on Sunday.

Her third gold came in the 3km team pursuit when she along with K Suchitra Devi, Th Helen Devi and Y Sunita Devi had an effort of 4:04.234 to earn Manipur the title.

The star Manipur rider also has a silver medal in the Games.

Kerala quartet of Rejani V, Mahitha Mohan, Deepa Chandran and Kezia Verghese stood second, while Punjab bagged the bronze through Gurpreet Kaur, Rekha Rani, Sandeep Kaur and Mamta Kumari.

Services riders clinched the second gold on offer today when Atul Singh, Satbir Singh, Vinod Malik and Sombir Singh clinched the 4km team pursuit title with a timing of 4:43.635.

Punjab's Sarpreet Singh, Harpreet Singh, Amandeep Singh and Amrit Singh bagged the silver at 4:49.104, while Rajasthan's star studded team of Rajendra Bishnoi, Suraj Mal Jat, Suresh Bishnoi and Rakesh Kumar Jhakar slipped to the third spot with a timing of 4:57.710.