Excelsior Sports Correspondent
GULMARG, Mar 11: On 3rd day of Winter Games (KIWGs), the needle of medal tally began to incline towards Army as their team dominated Men’s Ski Relay Event and raced to Gold while Uttarakhand team scaled Silver and Himachal Pradesh walked for Bronze medal in the competition.
The Slalom Snowboard event for Women held at Kangdoori saw thrilling contest among the participants. Himachal Pradesh was crowned with Gold & Silver but missed hat-trick of medals as bronze went to Maharashtra.
The podium crowned Preeti Thakur as Golden Girl, Prakarti Thakur as Silver Girl both Himachal girls, while Urmila Pable of Maharashtra took pride in bronze.
The Nordic Ski Sprint Women was again dominated by Kusum Rana of ITBP who won second Gold today while three-time Gold Medalist of KWIG Bhavanj Thekkada from Karnataka did a late come back in this competition to obtain Silver. The Bronze was claimed by none other than Selma Soreng from ITBP.
For Men’s event of 15 km Nordic Sprint, Army won all three coveted medals as Sunny, Stanzin and Thupstan won Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively.
Army decimated all competitors and got top 12 positions in the event and the streak was only broken by ITBP.
In Alpine Slalom women, Himachal Pradesh players swept medals with Anchal Thakur, Tanuja Thakur & Promila Thakur winning Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.
Deputy Director General, Sports Authority of India, Vineet Kumar while speaking regarding KIWG said the games had been tremendous success as Sports Authority of India and J&K Sports Council have done marvellous job to conduct games efficiently and smoothly.
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