The Hosts of the Khelo India Winter Games – Jammu and Kashmir, put up a spectacular show on the 3rd day of the event. Sunday was blessed with a sunny day and the events were smoothly conducted in almost every location. The J&K participants won three Gold Medals in three categories: Figure Skaters Girls event (15-19 age group), Junior Girls Long Distance Competition and Alpine Category 01 Boys. The other games that were scheduled for the 3rd day of the Games include: Ice Stock, Ice Hockey, Ice Skating, Bandy Curling, Bobsleighing & Skelton, Snowshoe, Nordic, Ski Mountaineering, Alpine G Slalom and Cross Country.
The Games saw the participation of several spectators who cheered for their favourite teams and athletes in the games. The winners of the different games were given awards and the allocated prizes by officials and other sports council administrators. Earlier in Bandy, Gujarat won first position, Haryana second position while Maharashtra satisfied with third position. Similarly, in Ice Skating of 1000 m for the Senior Girls category, Swarali Ashutosh Deo of Maharashtra achieved 1st position, Raina Kukreja of Haryana got 2nd position and Anushka Merchant of Haryana obtained 3rd position.
In the same event of Senior Men, Suyog Sanjay Tapkir of Maharashtra wrested 1st position, Anubhav Gupta from UP and Padma Gurmeet of Ladakh got 2nd and 3rd positions, respectively. In Figure Skaters event of Boys (13-15 years), Kapish Kaushik and Utkarsh Saxena both players from Haryana got first and second positions respectively while Ayush Jaguri of Uttrakhand had to satisfy with 3rd position.
In Figure Skaters Girls (15-19 years), Wafa Tariq from J&K topped, followed by Chelsi Singh of Haryana, who won 2nd position and Shezan Wani (J&K) secured 3rd position. Also, in Figure Skaters Senior Girls category, Kashish Sharma stayed at top while Suyog Sanjay Tapkir obtained top position in Speed Skaters in Senior Men category.
Aman Thakur (HAWS) got gold medal in Senior Men Long Distance competition, Ghulam Haider (Ladakh) won gold in Junior Boys Long Distance competition, Dhanalaksmi (Karnataka) received Gold in Senior Women Long Distance category and Sara (J&K) bagged Gold in Junior Girls Long Distance. In Nordic 15 km (Men), Shubham Parihar (Army Red) got 1st position and in Nordic 1.5 km (Junior Girls), Shabnum (HP) scaled top position. Farhat Shabir (J&K) and Priyanshu Kawan (UK) achieved first position in Alpine Category 01 Boys and Alpine Category 02 Boys, respectively.
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