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From being asked to quit to winning KIYG 2023 gold, MP middle-distance run
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Vikas Bind won the 3000m gold medal in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games 2023 on Tuesday with a new meet record of 8 minutes 29.16 seconds. In November 2023, Bind had clocked a timing of 8:18.06 to rewrite the 12-year-old Junior National Athletics meet record in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
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KIYG 2023: Forced to stop training after mother's accident, UP long jumper
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Back home, Tauseef had no facilities to train and had lost all hopes of being back on the field. Once his mother recovered, he gradually restarted training at his native place after almost a year
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Living her mother's dream, record-breaking Kerala shot-putter Anupriya VS
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Anupriya took up shot-put with her mother Rajani donning the role of a coach during the initial years. On Tuesday, the 18-year-old from Kerala etched her name in the record books of Khelo India Youth Games when she won the gold medal with a new meet record of 17.22m.
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KIYG 2023: Bihar farmer's daughter Durga Singh runs into record books with
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Durga Singh won the 1500m gold at the 38th Junior National Athletics Championship in Coimbatore last year clocking 4 minutes 38.29 seconds
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KIYG 2023: Rajasthan's Vimla Machra overcomes memories of earlier fall to
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Rajasthan's Vimla Machra was barely smiling despite dominating the girls' Keirin race at the Cycling Velodrome in TNPESU complex to win the gold medal. The teenager was quite conscious of her broken tooth and had been told by her father to skip the event.
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KIYG 2023: Kerala's Anupriya, MP's Vikas Bind break Games records on first
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Kerala's Anupriya V S and Madhya Pradesh's Vikas Bind set new Games records in girls' shot put and boys 3000 metres race respectively on the first day of athletics competitions in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games 2023 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Outdoor Stadium here on Tuesday.
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Daughter of a welder, Chandigarh's Sapna shines with second KIYG gold
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Sapna, whose father is a welder and mother a housewife, said her parents don't have any clue about her sport but they have never stopped her from participating
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KIYG 2023: Maharashtra, Haryana boost medal tally with five and four gold
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Maharashtra bagged two gold medals each from Gymnastics and Yogasana and one in fencing to jump to second spot in the overall standing while Haryana swept both the Kabaddi golds and added one each in Judo and fencing to climb to third position.
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Khelo India Youth Games: Delhi jump to second spot after bagging two gold
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Delhi jumped to the second spot in the medals tally after their judokas clinched two of the five gold medals on offer and also bagged two silver medals at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, as per a press release from KIYG 2023 Tamil Nadu.
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KIYG 2023: Encouraged to take up fencing by mother, Manipur's Zenith start
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Hailing from Imphal East, Zenith credits his mother for whatever he has achieved in fencing. It was her decision to push her son to take up the sport at the academy adjacent to their home.
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Tamil Nadu's gymnastics prodigy hopes to realise Olympic dream via Khelo I
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Fourteen-year-old Oceana Reena Thomas created history at the Junior Artistic Gymnastics National Championships in December 2023 at Bhubaneshwar when she became Tamil Nadu's first-ever junior national gold medallist
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Sreejesh-fan Shanmugapriya looking forward to make it big in KIYG 2023
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Shanmugapriya, the goalkeeper of Tamil Nadu's girls' hockey team for the Khelo India Youth Games 2023, is a fan of India's goalkeeper PR Sreejesh
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