Imphal, February 17: Fencers of hosts Manipur continue to dominate proceedings in the 11th National Junior Fencing Championship underway at Khuman Lampak Indoor Stadium collecting five gold medals and four silvers on the second day today.

Manipur is leading the medal's tally as West Bengal secured second position with a silver followed by Punjab in third at five silvers, Karnataka four bronzes and.

Andhra Pradesh and Assam with a bronze each.

Manipur made a clean sweep of the five gold medals on offer today besides grabbing four silvers with the finals in four individual categories featuring an all Manipur contests while four other State fencers also advanced to the finals in two other individual events besides a team event.

In individual girls sabre event final today, N Harina Devi defeated Th Tinku by 15 points to nine while Kamataka's N Lakshmi Devi and N Bindu Devi secured the third position.

State lass M Usharani defeated W Roji Devi 15-7 to win the individual girls foil event 'with the bronze going to Punjab duo Gurpreet and Lovjit Kaur.

The third yellow metal came in individual boys sabre section where Chingsomba Ningomba out-scored State-mate A Rupachandra Singh 15-10.Karnataka's Binod and Opelin of Assam shared the bronze.

S Jayanta Meitei culling the 15 point win margin in 2:51.52 sees relegated A Sanatomba Singh to the second spot with the bronze medal going to Sumit (Karnataka) and Gaiirabjit (Punjab).

Punjab girls Ranjeet Kaur and Ruchi had to concede defeat to Manipur's Sandhyarani and L Nillu respectively in the individual girls� epee competition semi finals.

Jayanta and Sovaraj also ensured an all Manipur affair in the boys individual foil competition fending off challenges of Andhra Pradesh' Tukaram and Sumit S of Karnataka respectively in the semi finals today.

The hosts State also began its gold hunt in team event competition with epee quartet of Tinku, L Nillu, Shandhyarani and Bandana defeating Kerala 15-7 in the final played in late evening.

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