Sudurpaschim Province took second place with 8 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals, and Lumbini Province took third place with 5 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze medals.
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Bagmati Province has won the highest number of 11 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze medals in the athletics category of the 16th President's Running Shield Games and lifted the team champion trophy.
26 events were competed in athletics. Sudurpaschim Province came second with 8 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals, and Lumbini Province came third with 5 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze medals. Gandaki Province won 2 gold, 2 silver and 7 bronze medals, and Karnali Province won 1 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals. Gold-less Koshi Province won 2-2 silver and bronze medals. Madhesh Province remained medal-less.
The finals of 8 events were held at the Dasharath Stadium in Tripureshwor on Friday. Bhagwandas Lohar of Lumbini won gold in the boys' 200-meter race in 22.64 seconds. Garima Chaudhary of Lumbini won gold in the girls' race in 27.37 seconds.
Anil Shahi of Karnali won the boys' 3000-meter race. He finished the race in 9 minutes 20.1 seconds. Anjuli Malla of Lumbini won the first place in the girls' race. Anjuli completed the distance in 11 minutes 03.6 seconds.
Vikram Nath of Sudurpaschim won the boys' triple jump. He jumped 13.55 meters. Anisha Tharu of Bagmati, who jumped 11.10 meters, won the first place in the girls' race. Lumbini and Bagmati Province topped the boys' 4x100-meter relay and the girls' race.
Three junior national records were set in athletics, two individual and one team. Avinash Sunar of Bagmati set a record in the boys' high jump by jumping 1.86 meters.
Bhagwati Khadka of Bagmati set a record in the girls' 400-meter race by completing the distance in 58.94 seconds in the heat phase. Bhagwati won 4 gold medals, including one record. Bhagwati won gold in the 400-meter race, 800-meter race, 4x100 and 4x400-meter relay.
In the girls' 4x400-meter relay, the Gandaki team consisting of Atit Thapa, Aryan Rana Magar, Ankit Ranabhat and Sudip Bhandari set a record by setting a time of 3 minutes 27.9 seconds.
In the taekwondo event held at the Nepal Taekwondo Academy hall in Satdobato, Bagmati Province won 5 gold medals. In the competition for 12 gold medals, Sudurpaschim and Madhesh won 2 gold medals each. While Karnali remained gold-less, Koshi, Gandaki and Lumbini won 1 gold medal each.
In the karate event held at the covered hall in Kirtipur, Koshi won the most medals, 3 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 3 bronze medals. Lumbini won 3 gold medals and 5 bronze medals, and Sadurpaschim won 3 gold medals and 4 bronze medals. Bagmati won 2 and Madhesh won 1 gold medal. There was a competition for 12 gold medals.
