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Khelo India has brought in fierce competitive spirit among young athletes:
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankushita, who pocketed the gold medal when Assam last hosted the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) in 2020, rated her performance as a career-changing one, especially after experiencing a dip in performance following her 2017 youth world crown.
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KIYG 2023: School bus driver's daughter won bronze, father's relentless pe
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
At 4.30 in the morning, Jagdish Gulia and his eight-year-old daughter Tannu were glued to the television watching Indian women wrestling at the 2016 Rio Olympics. When Sakshi Malik turned the bout on its head in the dying seconds to secure bronze, both Jagdish and Tannu embraced each other i
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KIYG gold medallist Janvi's training module includes playing shankh, groov
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
While Janvi was waiting for her girl's 61kg final wrestling bout against Delhi's Yashita in the Khelo India Youth Games 2023 at the Rajarathinam stadium here, her coach Ajmer Malik gave her few tips on how to shoot good images on a mobile phone and promptly asked her to showcase what she lea
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KIYG 2023: Weightlifter Keerthana creates new National Youth records; Maha
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Tamil Nadu weightlifter R P Keerthana broke the National Youth record in Snatch, Clean & Jerk and overall to clinch the gold in the girls 81kg category while table-toppers Maharashtra touched the half-century of gold medals in the 6th Khelo India Youth Games 2023 here on Tuesday.
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KIYG 2023: Kerala cyclist Alanis Cubeleo rides on Covid-induced life trans
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In the face of the COVID-19 lockdown, where most viewed the restrictions as a curse, Alanis Lilly Cubeleo saw it as an opportunity for transformation. As pools shut and competitive swimming came to a halt, she was determined not to let the pandemic hinder her athletic pursuits
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KIYG 2023: Assam's Pahi applies her Tezpur lake lessons to win Chennai poo
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Far from the glittering waters of an Olympic-size pool, Pahi Borah learned to swim in a lake, and had to use makeshift bamboo arrangements to dive and somersault. But the talent and passion of the 14-year-old from Tezpur, Assam, has carried her seamlessly from a lake to the pool
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KIYG 2023: Haryana weightlifter Sanjana improves her own national mark, Sa
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Haryana's Sanjana improved on her own National Youth records in Snatch, Clean and Jerk and overall to clinch the girls 76kg weightlifting gold while Maharashtra's Sayali Wani came back from the brink to win the girls singles table tennis gold in the Khelo India Youth Games 2023
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Khelo India Games creates a big community: Tokyo Olympian Varun Thakkar
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo Olympian sailor Varun Thakkar was spotted in the crowd during events at the Khelo India Youth Games 2023 Tamil Nadu, cheering on the young wrestlers as the wrestling action began at the Rajarathinam Stadium in Chennai
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KIYG 2023: Assam tea-seller's daughter Panchami hopes KIYG medal will give
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Panchami is excited at the prospect of facing off against her idol and Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu, who also competes in the same weight division. For Panchami, the first goal at the senior level remains a podium finish at the Commonwealth Games
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KIYG 2023: Despite lack of facilities, J-K volleyball team punches above i
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Jammu and Kashmir is hardly a formidable name in volleyball. And hence, when their boys' team upset defending champions Haryana in the group encounter of the Khelo India Youth Games 2023
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KIYG 2023: Weightlifter Jyoshna rises from poverty in remote Odisha villag
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The 15-year old daughter of a small-time farmer father and homemaker mother has risen from this impoverished background to become one of India's leading junior weightlifters. After winning bronze at the World Youth Championships in Albania last year, she shattered the national snatch record
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KIYG 2023: Dominant Yashvardhan Singh shows why he is rated so highly in b
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In the 60-63kg final at the TNPESU complex on Wednesday, Yashvardhan thoroughly dominated Maharashtra's Gaurav Chauhan for a unanimous verdict
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