Renukacharya hodmani

Khelo India Beach Games: With three gold medals, all from pencak silat, hosts Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu kept their nose ahead of Manipur, Maharashtra and Delhi in the medal standings of the Khelo India Beach Games here on Wednesday.

Hosts DNHDD added a third pencak silat gold late on Tuesday evening when Princess Thomas won the creative solo event for women. Manipur won a pair while Punjab, Delhi and Maharashtra clinched one each to account for the eight golds awarded in pencak silat so far.

Four gold medals were decided on Wednesday – two each in 10 km open water swimming and sepak takraw (team event consisting of three players). In one of the most gruelling event of these Games, Maharashtra’s Diksha Yadav and Karnataka’s Renukacharya Hodmani won the women’s and men’s races in a fairly docile early morning Arabian Sea.