Pranati Nayak’s win over Deepa Karmakar in the Vault final on Thursday turned heads at the National Artistic Gymnastics Championships at the newly built gymnastics facility at Kalinga Stadium Complex in Bhubaneswar. The 28-year-old Pranati Nayak is a two-time Asian bronze medalist and was India’s only competitor in the gymnastics competition at the Asian Games last year.
Railways Pranati Nayak, 2020 Olympian, averaged 13,067 points in her vault, earning 13,300 and 12,833 respectively. Deepa Karmakar (Tripura) averaged 12.584 after scoring 12.700 and 12.467 respectively. Interestingly, both Pranati Nayak and Deepa Karmakar scored 13.40 points on vault in the all-around final on Wednesday.
Deepa Karmakar celebrated her return to the National Championships with a win in the all-around competition on Wednesday.
Results:-
men:
All-in: 1. Rakesh Batra (Odisha) 75.05 points (12.15 floor, 11.35 hp, 14.15 ring, 12.75 vault, 12.20 parallel bars, 12.45 horizontal bars); 2. Siddharth Verma (Railways) 74.74; 3. Gaurav Kumar (Services) 74.65.
Floor exercise: 1. Gaurav Kumar (services) 12.867 points; 2. Jatin Kumar (Odisha) 12,533; 3. S. Ruban Mitti (Manipur) 12,467.
Pommel Horse: 1. Harikrishnan (Kerala) 13.13; 2. Siddharth Verma (Railways) 13,033; 3. Yogeshwar (Haryana) 12,400.
Episodes: 1. Rakesh Kumar Batra (Odisha) 13.53; 2. Swatheesh KP (Kerala) 13,200; 3. Tapan Mohanty (Odisha) 13.167.
Vault: 1. Siddharth Verma (Railways) 13.134; 2. Ujjwal Naidu (Railways) 13,050; 3. Shreyas Chaudhary (Services) 13,017.
Parallel Bars: 1. Tamboli Sword (Services) 13,900; 2. Rakesh Kumar Batra (Odisha) 13,433; 3. Gaurav Kumar (Services) 13,333.
Horizontal bar: 1. Yogeshwar (Haryana) 13,000; 2. Gaurav (services) 12,300; 3. Rakesh Kumar Batra (Odisha) 12,233.
Team: 1. Railways (Siddharth Verma, Ujjwal Naidu, Abhilekh Parashar, Shayan Sharma) 293.00; 2. Services 292.10; 3. Odisha 290.40.
slim:
All-round: 1. Deepa Karmakar (Tripura) 49.55 points (13.40 v, 10.65 uneven bars, 13.10 balance beam, 12.40 floor exercise); 2. Pranati Das (Railway) 47.00; 3. Ganguly Swastika (Railway) 45.30.
Floor exercise: 1. Pranati Das (Rail) 11,900 points; 2. B Aruna Reddy (Tamil Nadu) 11,867; 3. Shatakshi Taki (Maharashtra) 11,533.
Vault: 1. Pranati Nayak (Rail) 13,067; 2. Deepa Karmakar (Tripura) 12,584; 3. Protista Samanta (Railroad) 12.350.
Uneven bars: 1. Pranati Das (rail) 10.433; 2. Deepa Karmakar (Tripura) 10.433; 3. Karishma (Odisha) 10,300.
Balance beam: 1. Ritu Das (West Bengal) 13.167; 2. Ridhi Haat (Maharashtra) 10,933; 3. Pranati Nayak (Railways) 10,433.
Team: 1. Railways (Pranati Das, Swastika Ganguly, Bidisha Jain, Protishtha Samanta) 182.60; 2. Maharashtra 169.65; 3. West Bengal 166.80.
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