KIYG 2023: TN Weightlifter Keerthana & Maha Swimmer Joshi Set Records; Maharashtra Cross 50 Gold Medals

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Chennai, January 30: Tamil Nadu weightlifter R P Keerthana broke the National Youth record in Snatch, Clean & Jerk and overall to clinch the gold in girls 81kg category at the Khelo India Youth Games Chennai 2023 on Tuesday (January 30).

Keerthana lifted a total of 188 kgs, including 85kg in snatch and 106kg in Clean & Jerk to finish ahead of state-mate Oviya K (184kg) with Uttar Pradesh's Santushti Choudhary taking home the bronze with a total lift of 162kg.

The earlier record in Snatch (81kg), Clean & Jerk (104kg) and overall (185kg) were held by Ch. Srilakshmi of Andhra Pradesh before Tamil Nadu's Keerthana broke it on Tuesday (January 30).

Meanwhile, table-toppers Maharashtra touched the half-century of gold medals in the 6th KIYG 2023 in Chennai as they added nine gold medals to the KIYG 2023 medal tally, bagging three in archery, two in Kho-kho, and one each in swimming, wrestlind and the girls doubles title in badminton.

World champion and 2022 Asian Games bronze medallist Aditi Gopichand Swami led the Maharashtra charge at the archery venue in Nehru Park, winning the compound girls and mixed team gold medals while Pruthviraj Ghadge and Sharvani Shende won the recurve mixed team final.

Shende also won the silver medal in girls recurve category while Tejal Salve won the silver medal in compound girls and Mihir Apar took home the bronze from boy's compound event.

In Madurai, Maharashtra Kho-kho team lived up to their favourite tag to clinch both the gold medals. The boys defeated Delhi 40-10 while the girls got the bette of Odisha 33-24.

Taarini Suri and Shravani Walekar then took Maharashtra to 50 gold medals when they defeated Odisha's Pragati Parida and Vishakha Toppo 21-13, 20-22, 21-16 in the girls doubles final at the TNPESU badminton hall.

In shooting, Telangana's Yuvek Battula and Venkat Lakku bagged the mixed team gold with Madhya Pradesh's Vanshika Tiwari and Udyaman Rathore bagging the silver and Punjab's Zorawar Bedi and Risham Guron taking home the bronze.

Swimmer Palak Joshi lowers her own senior national mark

Maharashtra swimmer Palak Joshi improved on her 200m backstroke national mark. Joshi, who had represented India at the 2022 Asian Games, stopped the clock at 2:18.59s, bettering her senior national mark of 2:18.90s set at the National Aquatics championships in Hyderabad last July.

The Swimming Federation of India will recognise it as the 'Best Indian Performance' as SFI only consider best performances in the National Games as National Records. Telangana's Sri Nithya Sagi won the silver with a time of 2:25.83s while Karnataka's Naisha took home the bronze with a time of 2:25.83s.

KIYG 2023 Results on January 30

ARCHERY

Girls:
Recurve: Gold - Avani (Har); Silver - Sharvari Shende (Mah); Bronze - Jannat (Har)
Compound: Gold - Aditi Gopichand Swami (Mah); Silver - Tejal Salve (Mah); Bronze - Kumud Saini (Del)

Boys:
Recurve: Gold - Shubham Kumar (Bih); Silver - Laishram Nelson (Man); Bronze - Atharva Sharma (Raj)
Compound: Gold - Sukhmandeep Singh (Pun); Silver - Harsh Kumar (Chd); Bronze - Mihir Apar (Mah)

Mixed team recurve: Gold - Pruthviraj Ghadge/Sharvari Shende (Mah); Silver - Agastay Singh/Avani (Har), Bronze - Atharva Sharma/Pranjal Tholiya (Raj)
Mixed team compound: Gold - Manav Jadhao/Aditi Swami (Mah); Silver - Pendyala Trinath Chowdary/Kengam Saranya (AP); Bronze - Aryan Yadav/Kumud Saini (Del)

BADMINTON

Girls:
Singles: Gold medal match - T Surya Charishma (AP) bt Aesha Gandhi (Guj) 21-14, 21-14
Bronze - Rujula Ramu
Doubles: Gold medal match - Taarini Suri/Shravani Walekar (Mah) bt Pragati Parida/Vishakha Toppo (Odi) 21-13, 20-22, 21-16; Bronze - Gayatri Rawat/Mansa Rawat (Utr)

Boys:
Singles: Gold medal match - Laksh Chengappa MA (Kar) bt Ansh Negi (Utr) 21-17, 21-13; Bronze - R Mithesh (TN)
Doubles: Gold medal match - GP Vinayakram/Swastik M (TN) bt Bhavya Chabra/Param Choudhary (Del) 21-18, 21-18; Bronze - Bhargav Ram Arigala/Viswa Tej Gobburu (AP)

KHO-KHO

Girls: Gold medal match -Maharashtra bt Odisha 33-24; Bronze - Gujarat, Delhi

Boys: Gold medal match - Maharashtra bt Delhi - 40-10; Bronze - Gujarat, Karnataka

SHOOTING

Mixed team: Gold - Yuvek Battula/Venkat Lakku (Tel) 39+8; Silver - Vanshika Tiwari/Udyaman Rathore (MP) 39+6; Bronze - Zorawar Bedi/Risham Guron (Pun)

SWIMMING

Girls:
200m medley: Gold - Shreenithi Natesan (TN) 2:26.78s; Silver - Saanvi Deshwal (Mah) 2:27.64s; Bronze - Subhranshini Priyadarshini (Asm) 2:31.60s
200m backstroke: Gold - Palak Joshi (Mah) 2:18.59s; Silver - Sri Nithya Sagi (Tel) 2:25.83s; Bronze - Naisha (Kar) 2:25.83s
4x100m medley: Gold - Karnataka 4:32.66s; Silver - Maharashtra 4:34.30s; Bronze - Tamil Nadu 4:41.21s

Boys:
200m medley: Gold - Yug Chelani (Raj) 2:10.73s; Silver - Siddhanth Singh Jadon (MP) 2:12.29s; Bronze - Saswata Roy (WB) 2:13.50s
200m Backstroke: Gold - Nithik Nathella (TN) 2:04.60s; Silver - Rishabh Das (Mah) 2:05.19s; Bronze - Akash Mani (Kar) 2:07.25s
800m Freestyle: Gold - Mongam Theerdu Samadev (AP) 8:29.77s; Silver - Gotteti Sampath Kumar Yadav (AP) 8:29.86s; Bronze - Darshan S (Kar) 8:39.89

TENNIS

Girls doubles: Gold medal match - Maaya Rajeshwari/Lakshmi Prabha (TN) bt Suhitha Maruri/Sreenidhi Balaji (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; Bronze: Ruma Gaikawari/Asmi Adkar (Mah), Sonal Patil/Aishwarya Dayanand (Mah)

WEIGHTLIFTING

Girls
81kg: Gold - R P Keerthana (TN) 188kg; Silver - Oviya K (TN) 184kg; Bronze - Santushti Choudhary (UP) 162kg.
81+kg: Gold - Amritha P Suni (Ker) 181kg; Silver - Aditi (UP) 173kg; Bronze - Y Chaitna Kumari (AP) 169kg.

Boys
102+kg: Gold - Suvansh Thakur (HP) 280kg; Silver - David Zohmingmawla (Miz) 266kg; Bronze - Sarth Jadhav (Mah) 264

WRESTLING

Girls:
53kg: Gold - Ekta Kumari (Raj); Silver - Sanika Patil (Mah); Bronze - Riya Kumari (Jha), Priya (Har)
65kg: Gold - Siksha (Del); Silver - Prerna Mehta (HP); Bronze - Tannu (Har), Apeksha Patil (Mah)

Boys
55kg FS: Gold - Anuj Kumar Vishnoi (Raj); Silver - Khazamainuddin Malagi (Kar); Bronze - Abhishek Yadav (UP), Yogesh Phalswal (Del)
80kg FS: Gold - Arjun Gadekar (Mah); Silver - Neeraj (Del); Bronze - Saurabh Yadav (UP), Yadvinder Singh (HP)
92kg GR: Gold - Shivam Yadav (UP); Silver - Umesh (Har); Bronze - Vansh Dabas (Del), Konewale Gajanand Singh (Tel)

Source: Media Release