Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

Manipur cyclists win four medals: Imphal, Dec 27: Manipur cyclists won one gold, two silver and a bronze medal in the 13th National Road Cycling Championship at Erode (Tamil Nadu) on Thursday. N Chaoba Devi pedalled to gold in the 30 km individual time trial with a timing of 50:40.39 sec and H Renubala added the 20 km time trial bronze in the under-19 girls' category. She clocked 36:04.15 sec. I Sonia provided one of the silver medals with a timing of 1::16:57.60 sec in the 7 km U-15 girls' individual time trial. The state quartet of L Maniton, U Ashok, L Bikram and A Bishkumar had to be content with the silver in Under-19 boys’ team time trial event. Posted On: The Sangai Express

Manipur finish second: Imphal, Dec 23: Manipur added one gold and a silver to finish runners-up in the 25th Sub Junior National Taekwondo Championship which concluded at Bhopal on Sunday. Uttar Pradesh won the overall championship title. Manipur bagged four gold, two silver and three bronze medals. L Rabikanta won the boys' light-heavy weight title to add the only yellow metal fetched on Sunday while Kh Marshal secured the silver in welter weight division.