[Video Credit- Star Sports] Maharashtra pick up steam and increase lead in medals race at Khelo India Youth Games
Hosts Maharashtra picked crucial gold medals in almost every discipline to race ahead of the other states in the Khelo India Youth Games. The hosts, powered by four gold each from swimming and gymnastics, also picked more gold from athletics, badminton and judo to race away past the 50-mark for gold medals.
Maharashtra now has 56 gold, a sharp move up from their overnight 41 gold, and they also have 44 silver and 56 bronze for a whopping total of 156 medals.
Despite fighting hard and picking up nine gold medals, which included three each from judo and swimming, Delhi were still lagging behind in the race for overall supremacy. Delhi now have 45 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze, while Haryana, last year’s champions in Khelo India School Games, have 33 gold, 34 silver and 36 bronze.
The top three states have all crossed the 100-mark in medals, and Maharashtra has gone past 150.
Among the individual stars of the day, 10-year-old Abhinav Shaw stood out as he teamed up with Mehuli Ghosh to take the gold in the 10m Air Rifle mixed team event. The 10-year-old from Asansol became the youngest gold medallist at the Khelo India Youth Games and along with Mehuli Ghosh helped West Bengal win the 10m air rifle mixed team event here today. It was Mehuli’s second gold, as she had picked one a day earlier.
If it was Manavaditya Rathore, son of India’s first Olympic individual silver medallist, Col Rajyavardhan Rathore, the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, who held the spotlight a day earlier, today it was Devanshi, daughter of former pistol legend Jaspal Rana, who is now the National junior pistol coach. Devanshi Rana won the Under-21 junior women’s 25m pistol gold as she held off a challenge by Haryana’s resurgent Anjali Choudhary.
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