Besides the two gold, Rakesh won silver in parallel bars and bronze in horizontal bar. He also helped Odisha win the bronze medal in mens team event. Among other individual medal winners of Odisha, Jatin Kumar grabbed silver in mens floor exercise, Tapan Mohanty claimed bronze in mens rings and Karishma secured bronze in womens uneven bars.

In womens apparatus events, Pranati Das of Railways clinched a double gold (uneven bars and floor exercise) apart from finishing second in the all-around womens category. Her teammate Pranati Nayak clinched two medals, winning gold in vault and bronze in balance beam.

Meanwhile, Tripura Olympian Dipa Karmakar bagged a total of three medals (gold in all-around, silver in vault as well as uneven bars) in the womens competition. Gaurav Kumar from Services also won as many as four medals. Apart from bronze in all-around, he clinched gold in floor exercise and one silver each in parallel bars and horizontal bar.

Siddharth Verma (Railway) won three medals, which included gold in vault and one silver each in all-around and pommel horse. Yogeshwar (Haryana) was another outstanding performer, winning gold in horizontal bar and bronze in pommel horse.

State Sports Department Secretary Vineel Krishna graced the closing ceremony as chief guest. Gymnastics Federation of India president Sudhir Mital was present on the occasion.

MEDAL WINNERS (Individual Apparatus):

WOMEN: Vault: 1. Pranati Nayak (Railways, 13.067 points), 2. Dipa Karmakar (Tripura, 12.584), 3. Protistha Samanta (Railways, 12.350). Uneven Bars: 1. Pranati Das (Railways, 10.433 points), 2. Dipa Karmakar (Tripura, 10.433), 3. Karishma (Odisha, 10.300).Balance Beam: 1. Ritu Das (West Bengal, 13.167 points), 2. Riddhi Hatte (Maharashtra, 10.933), 3. Pranati Nayak (Railway, 10.433).Floor Exercise: 1. Pranati Das (Railways, 11.900 points), 2. B Aruna Reddy (Tamil Nadu, 11.867), 3. Shatakshi Takke (Maharashtra, 11.533).

MEN: Floor Exercise: 1. Gaurav Kumar (Services, 12.867 points), 2. Jatin Kumar (Odisha, 12.533), 3. S Ruban Meitei (Manipur, 12.467). Pommel Horse: 1. Harikrishnan (Kerala, 13.133 points), 2. Siddharth Verma (Railways, 13.033), 3. Yogeshwar (Haryana, 12.400). Rings: 1. Rakesh Kumar Patra (Odisha, 13.533 points), 2. Swathish KP (Kerala, 13.200), 3. Tapan Mohanty (Odisha, 13.167). Vault: 1. Siddharth Verma (Railways, 13.134 points), 2. Ujwal Naidu (Railways, 13.050), 3. Shreyas Chaudhary (Services, 13.017). Parallel Bars: 1. Saif Tamboli (Services, 13.900 points), 2. Rakesh Kumar Patra (Odisha, 13.433), 3. Gaurav Kumar (Services, 13.333). Horizontal Bar: 1. Yogeshwar (Haryana, 13.000 points). 2. Gaurav Kumar (Services, 12.300), 3. Rakesh Kumar Patra (Odisha, 12.233).
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TOP: Odisha star Rakesh Kumar Patra poses after winning the all-around gold medal at the Senior National Artistic Gymnastics Championship in Bhubaneswar on 4 January 2024.
RIGHT: Rings gold medal winner Rakesh Patra (Centre) poses with silver and bronze medalists Swathish KP (Left) and Tapan Mohanty at the Senior National Artistic Gymnastics Championship in Bhubaneswar on 4 January 2024