Khelo India Youth Games 2023: Maharashtra swimmer Palak Joshi wins gold medal in 200 meter backstroke

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Chennai. Maharashtra swimmer Palak Joshi improved her national mark in 200m backstroke, while Tamil Nadu weightlifter R.P. Keertan won the girls’ 81kg category by breaking the overall national youth record.

Palak Joshi, who represented India at the 2022 Asian Games, stopped the clock at 2:18.59 seconds in the event, which was better than her senior national mark of 2:18.90 seconds set at the National Aquatics Championships in Hyderabad in July last year. Was less than.

The Swimming Federation of India will recognize it as the ‘Best Indian Performance’, as the SFI considers only the best performance at the National Games as a national record.

Sri Nitya Sagi of Telangana won the silver medal with a timing of 2:25.83 seconds, while Naisha of Karnataka won the bronze medal with a timing of 2:25.83 seconds.

Earlier, Tamil Nadu weightlifter R.P. Keertan had won the gold medal in the girls’ 81 kg category by breaking the national youth records in snatch, clean and jerk and overall. Keertan lifted a total of 188 kg, including 85 kg in snatch and 103 kg in clean and jerk, to finish ahead of her state-mate Oviya K (184 kg), while Uttar Pradesh’s Santushti Choudhary won bronze with a total lift of 162 kg. Won the medal.

The previous record in snatch (81 kg), clean and jerk (104 kg) and overall (185 kg) was held by Choudhary Srilakshmi of Andhra Pradesh. ,

Meanwhile, Maharashtra completed half a century of gold medals by adding nine more gold medals to its tally.

World champion and 2022 Asian Games bronze medalist Aditi Gopichand Swamy led Maharashtra to win the compound girls and mixed team gold medals, while Prithviraj Ghadge and Sharwani Shende won the recurve mixed team final at the archery venue at Nehru Park. Shende also won a silver medal in the girls’ recurve category, while Tejal Salve won a silver medal in the compound girls’ event and Mihir Apar won a bronze medal in the boys’ compound event.

In Madurai, Maharashtra’s Kho-Kho team lived up to its favorite tag and won both the gold medals. The boys defeated Delhi 40-10, while the girls defeated Odisha 33-24. Tarini Suri and Shravani Walekar gave Maharashtra 50 gold medals by defeating Odisha’s Pragati Parida and Vishakha Toppo 21-13, 20-22, 21-16 in the girls’ doubles final at the TNPESU Badminton Hall.

In shooting, Telangana’s Yuvek Battula and Venkat Lakku won the gold medal in mixed team, Madhya Pradesh’s Vanshika Tiwari and Udayman Rathod won the silver and Punjab’s Zorawar Bedi and Risham Guron won the bronze medal.

–IANS

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