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Khelo India Games creates a big community: Tokyo Olympian Varun Thakkar
Updated : 2 years, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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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KIYG 2023: Tamil Nadu twins who travelled 85km to train on synthetic track
Updated : 2 years, 4 months 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, 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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