Post his medal at the National Games, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also congratulated Shauryajit, a Class 5 student of Vadodara's Bharati Vidya Bhavan, on his success.
When Shauryajit Khaire won a bronze medal in Mallakhamb during the National Games held in Gujarat last year, he became the talk of the whole country after becoming the youngest athlete to win a medal at the Games.Now 10-year-old is in Madhya .
The 36th National Games 2022, which was held across six cities of Gujarat, concluded on Wednesday with the Services Sports Control Board topping the medal tally by winning 128 medals, including 61 gold, followed by Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on the chart table. It was the Services’ fourth consecutive championship title at the National Games. The country’s prestigious multi-event sporting extravaganza, which returned after a gap of seven long years, witnessed about 7,000 athletes from 28 states, eight Union Territories and Services (Indian Armed Forces) competing for medals in 36 sporting disciplines. For the first time, Yogasana was included in the games, a few years after the Sports Ministry formally recognised it as a competitive sport. One of the key moments of the event was a 10-year-old young prodigy Shauryajit Khaire winning bronze medal in Individual Pole (Mallakhamb), which astonished everyone and prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tweet “What a
The 36th National Games came to a poignant end here at the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Indoor Stadium on Wednesday, with Services Sports Control Board, Kerala's Sajan Prakash and Karnataka's Hashika Ramchandra walking away with the top .