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Athletes from Odisha Reliance High-Performance Centre clinch seven medals
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The 5th edition of Khelo India Youth Games, an annual event organised as part of the government of India's Khelo India initiative, aims at promoting sports at the grassroots level.
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KIYG gold medallist Vinatai eyes weightlifting medal for country
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Vinatai Aher, who practices under the supervision of Praveen Vyavhare at the Manmad gym, practices with national youth record holder Akanksha Vyavhare, who is 14 years old and has arrived for the first time to participate in the Khelo India Youth Games in Madhya Pradesh.
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KIYG Day-8: Weightlifters re-write record books, Maharashtra stay at top o
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The lifters' feat has now taken the total number of records created at the KIYG2022MP to seven, six of them being national youth records
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KIYG Day 7: Two national youth records shattered in steeplechase race, sho
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The stars of the day however were Sonam and Siddharth and they brought superlative efforts to the fore. Sonam left behind her second-placed rival C. Keerthana of Telangana more than half a minute behind in the distance race, with a fantastic burst of speed in the final leg. Siddharth's effor
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Bushra Khan's saga of human grit and courage on track
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Bushra Khan's winning effort of 10:04.29 secs may still have been a little far off the existing youth national mark of 9:50.54 (set by Seema Mangalgiri in 2017) - but one has to doff the hat to her for the resilience of the 18-year-old. She had lost her father, the only breadwinner in the fa
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KIYG MP Day 6: Haryana surge to top of medal tally
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Adding icing to the cake, on a 10-gold day for the northern state was their young Javelin thrower Deepika, who created a new national youth record with a fling of 55.19m in the Girl's competition at the T.T. Nagar stadium in Bhopal. This was the Games second national youth record after the h
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KIYG 2022, Day-5: Doondapati, Tamanna emerge as fastest boy and girl
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Odisha's Doondapati Jayara and Haryana's Tamanna are the fastest boys and girls of Khelo India Youth Games 2022 being held at Madhya Pradesh. Hosts Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in close fight for top spot. Dev Kumar Meena broke the national youth Pole Vault record with a vault of 4.91 metr
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The Kerketa story, from Chak de India to Khelo India
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Jharkhand women's hockey team, which has reached Gwalior to play Khelo India Youth Games (Madhya Pradesh), has two Kerketa's. Both of them are called Rajni and both of them have fathers who are farmers and both aspire to play for India. The only difference is that one is participating in Khe
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KIYG 2022: Hosts MP win four more golds, Maharashtra nose ahead
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Hosts win four more golds even as Maharashtra nose ahead at the Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Madhya Pradesh.
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TOPS athlete Shreya Gupta eyeing gold in Fencing in her debut at Khelo Ind
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The three-month exposure trip, sponsored by the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, saw Shreya put some impressive displays across four World Cups held in Kazakhstan, Germany, Budapest and Poland. She marked a fine 2022 for herself winning bronze medals each at the Asian Championship in Uzbekistan
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Bihar's Raat Rani represents true essence of Khelo India Youth Games
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The presence of light flyweight boxer Raat Rani, who is part of the Bihar team, in Bhopal speaks volumes about the success of events like the Khelo India Youth Games, where players from the grassroots level are given a chance to showcase their talent. Raat Rani represents the core essence of
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KIYG 2022: Madhya Pradesh garner all four golds in historic water sports d
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Hosts garner all four golds in historic water sports debut, on day of first medals at the Khelo India Youth Games 2022 in Madhya Pradesh. Odisha and Telangana were the other top performers on the waters, winning a total of six silver and bronze medals among them.
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