Special Olympics World Games | SO Bharat clinches four gold medals to start its campaign

ByPress Release, SportsCafe Editor

03/16/2019

SO Bharat has opened its tally of medals with four golds at the ongoing Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, UAE. India has so far bagged 15 medals which also include five silver and six bronze medals apart from the four gold medals at the prestigious event in the UAE’s capital city.

The Medals were clinched across Roller skating and Powerlifting. In Roller Skating Supreet Singh from Haryana (1000mtr), Rishabh Jain from New Delhi (1000mtr) and Priya Prakash Gada from Maharashtra (100 mtr) won a Gold Medal each. Manali Manoj Shelke from Maharashtra won a Gold in Combo of three in powerlifting (and a Bronze as well)

India continued to participate in other events: The divisioning in Volleyball is in progress and the result is expected to be declared on 20 March 2019 In Basketball the traditional Male (Division 6) and female matches ( Div 1) were played against France ( 23 to 21 in favour of France) and Great Britain ( 19 to 10 in favour of Great Britain) respectively . In Unified Basketball (Div 7) India scored 26 against 21 of SO Algeria. Final rounds in Judo would take place tomorrow, 16 March.

In Table Tennis in the Male category, SO Bharat played with SO Switzerland (Div 3) and SO Malta (Div 5), defeating both by 3:0 and 3:1 respectively. In the female category, SO Bharat vs SO Syria (Div 3) and SO Bharat vs SO Fiji ( Div 4) India won by 3:0 and 3:1 respectively India played 10 matches in Badminton in the Male and Female categories across Singles and Doubles winning 8 of them

Special Olympics World Games | SO Bharat clinches four gold medals to start its campaign

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