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KIUG 2025: Buoyed by breaking the meet record, Pooja sets sights on winnin
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Earlier this year, the 18-year-old had scripted history by becoming only the second Indian woman after Bobby Aloysius to win the Asian Championship high jump gold, scaling a personal best of 1.89 metres. Born to a mason in Boston village in Haryana's Fatehabad district, Pooja had been recove
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"We booked an auto...We got a little late before the match": LNIPE player
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A player, Ankita said, "... We had a match at 11:30 AM, and we were waiting for the bus till 11 AM, but it did not arrive. Then we booked an auto... We got a little late before the match."
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Pooja Singh wins gold, breaks KIUG meet record in women's high jump
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Asian Athletics Championship gold medallist and Lovely Professional University's Pooja Singh (Women's High Jump) broke the KIUG Meet Record on the second day of athletics competition in the Khelo India University Games Rajasthan 2025 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here on Tuesday.
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KIUG 2025: Four meet records tumble in athletics; Surbhi Rao win women's 1
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Chandigarh University's Rahul (men's 20km race walk) and Deepika (women's Javelin Throw), Ruchir Mori (men's 400m hurdles) of Swarnim Gujarat Sports University, Lovely Professional University's Pooja (Women's High Jump) broke the KIUG Meet Record on second day of athletics competition in the
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From losing her father at age 9 to securing 100m gold at KIUG, Keerthana's
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Every athlete has a moment that defines everything they've fought for. For Keerthana, that moment came in Jaipur, where the Udupi-born sprinter clocked 11.94 seconds to win the women's 100m gold at the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) Rajasthan 2025, a triumph that was years in the making
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Khelo India platform has been instrumental in journey to global success: W
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Aditi, who has won three consecutive gold medals in the Khelo India Youth Games, clinched gold in the individual compound event for Shivaji University on her KIUG debut. In 2023, Aditi created history by winning the individual gold medal at the World Archery Championships held in Berlin
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KIUG 2025: Chandigarh University's Tanya Choudhary breaks meet record to c
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Chandigarh University's Tanya Choudhary broke her own meet and All India University (AIU) record to clinch the women's Hammer Throw gold medal while Jain University's Keerthana and Shivaji University's Rushiprasad Desai were crowned the fastest women and men athletes in the Khelo India Unive
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Wrestler Shalina Sayer from Siddi community is shining example of Khelo In
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Shalina Sayer from Karnataka University, Dharwad, beat Bhanu of Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Haryana 2-1 in her last group bout to claim the bronze
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KIUG 2025: Father broke his FD for a dream, judoka Jaanvi repays it with g
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Jaanvi clinched gold in 48kg class in the women's judo event of the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) 2025, held at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indoor Multipurpose Hall in Udaipur
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KIUG 2025: Cyclist Meenakshi Rohilla finishes with four golds as Guru Nana
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The fifth edition of KIUG 2025 is being held across seven cities in Rajasthan. A whopping 4448 athletes from 222 Universities are competing in 23 medal disciplines. The Games are being held under the aegis of the Sports Authority of India in collaboration with the Rajasthan State Sports Coun
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Khelo India initiative doing wonders for promotion of sport, say wrestlers
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Many wrestlers arrived Monday morning, and Ravinder Malik is one of them. Originally from Rohtak in Haryana, the 24-year-old is representing Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth in the 74kg freestyle category. It's his second Khelo India University Games. In the previous edition in the No
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KIUG 2025: Cyclist Meenakshi Rohilla clinches first gold of Games; Jain U
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Guru Nanak Dev University cyclist Meenakshi Rohilla grabbed the first gold medals of the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) Rajasthan 2025 in the women's individual time trial while former champions Jain University, thanks to their swimmers led by Olympian Srihari Nataraj, took early lead o
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