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KIYG 2023: Tamil Nadu twins who travelled 85km to train on synthetic track
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In the run-up to the Khelo India Youth Games 2023 in Chennai, the sisters used to travel thrice a week to Tirunelveli, 85 kms from their village, to practice running on a synthetic track. On Wednesday evening at the state-of-the-art blue turf of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Ansilin and Aksl
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From being asked to quit to winning KIYG 2023 gold, MP middle-distance run
Updated : 2 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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KIYG: Muskan Rana stops Maharashtra's clean sweep in rhythmic gymnastics f
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Muskan finished on top with a total of 24.05 points to clinch Jammu and Kashmir's first gold medal of the Games
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Daughter of a welder, Chandigarh's Sapna shines with second KIYG gold
Updated : 2 years, 1 month 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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Hailing from Gujarat's 'Mini Africa', judoka Shahin ready for bigger chall
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Hailing from Jambur village, popularly known as the 'Mini Africa' of Gujarat, Shahin Darjada walked away with a gold medal in the 57kg category with a convincing win over Himachal Pradesh's Rupanshi in the final
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KIYG 2023: Maharashtra, Haryana boost medal tally with five and four gold
Updated : 2 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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