Khelo India Youth Games – Maharashtra retains overall championship

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Chennai, . Telangana’s Vriti Agarwal clinched a total of five gold medals while Maharashtra retained the overall championship trophy with another impressive performance at the sixth Khelo India Youth Games at the SDAT Aquatic Complex here on Wednesday.

With the top spot in the medals already assured, swimmer Rishabh Das first won gold in the boys’ 50m freestyle and then led the Maharashtra quartet in the 4x100m freestyle final to lead the state’s gold medal tally.
Maharashtra completed its campaign with a total of 156 medals, including 57 gold, 48 silver and 53 bronze, ahead of hosts Tamil Nadu, which added three golds on the final day, finishing with 38 gold, 21 silver and 39 bronze, its personal best. Entered.
Haryana dropped out of the top two positions for the first time and finished third with 35 gold, 22 silver and 46 bronze. Delhi (13G, 18S, 25B) remained ahead of Rajasthan (13G, 17S, 17B) due to their better silver and bronze medals.
With only football, tennis, table tennis and swimming medals at stake on the final day of competition, all eyes were on the action at the SDAT Aquatic Complex to see which swimmer would lay claim to being the most successful athlete of the Games. Lived up to its expectations and set an all-win record by winning five gold medals. She won gold in the 200m butterfly for the first time on Wednesday with a timing of 2:22.89 seconds, nearly four seconds ahead of second-place Ritika Mahesh of Karnataka from Bangalore. 17-year-old Vriti represents India at the 2022 Asian Games She then came back to capture the 1500 m freestyle crown with a time of 17:59.51 seconds. Karnataka’s Aditi Mulay (18:12.77 sec) and Sri Charani Tumu (18:17.85 sec) won silver and bronze medals respectively. Rajasthan’s Yug Chellani also had a chance to finish with five gold medals, but he finished second in the boys’ Karnataka’s S in 200 meter butterfly event. Finished second after Dhanush and won four gold and one silver medals. Tamil Nadu’s Rethin Pranab R.S. And M.R. Revathi also won gold medals. In the boys’ final, Pranav’s opponent Kahir Warrick of Maharashtra retired after trailing 6-2, 3-0, while in the girls’ final, Revathi defeated Lakshmi Siri Dandu of Telangana 6-1, 6-3.Pranav and Revathi along with her respective partners had won gold medals in boys’ and girls’ doubles on Tuesday.–IANS

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