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Time of India
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Khushi gives joyous Bihar 2nd gold in athletics
Khushi Yadav 's joy knew no bound as the Bihari girl performed brilliantly in the 2000 metre steeplechase to win gold with a timing of 9:52.10 at Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar at Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna on two laps remaining, Yadav overtook the other runners. This was Bihar's second gold in athletics as Alka Singh secured its first gold in shot put earlier. It was a good day in office for Bihar as it made history picking up two gold in Manipuri traditional martial art Thang-Ta, thanks to Priya Prerna and Mahika Kumari. Out of eight available gold, Manipur secured three gold, while Assam bagged two and Madhya Pradesh got one at BIPARD in Gaya. Bihar also won three bronze through Bhumik Raj, Lucky Kumar and Suvakshi Minj (Jharkhand), Sheikh Zeeshan (Uttar Pradesh) and Haryana girls' 4x400m relay team set new meet records on the final day of athletics competition. Maharashtra topped the athletics chart with 10 gold, one silver and two bronze while Haryana won the most medals with 19, including six gold, six silver and seven bronze. Tamil Nadu won six gold, silver and bronze who came fourth in the 400m, made a strong comeback in the 200m event to win gold in 21.54 seconds and set a new meet record. At the same time, Zeeshan made a new record by jumping 15.66 metre in triple jump. Haryana's relay team, including Vansika, Prachi Sharma, Deepika and Tannu, shattered the record with a time of 3:48.44 to win the gold in the 4x400 meter relay. In the boys' 4x400 metre relay, the Bihar team was heading towards gold, but Raj Sinha, running the second leg, fell in the last five meters to get the team disqualified. Tamil Nadu took advantage and won the the girls' relay, the teams of Haryana and Tamil Nadu clocked a better time than the old meet record. Maharashtra, who finished ahead of Tamil Nadu, were disqualified for exchanging the baton outside the baton Jason (Tamil Nadu) got silver after she made a brilliant comeback in the first 800m to overtake Maharashtra's Janhavi Hirudkar in the final few metres to take the gold. She had earlier won the 400m as well and now became a rare runner to win the 400-800m the penultimate day of the fencing competition, Haryana dominated the events at Rajgir's indoor complex on Wednesday, claiming gold in both the men's foil team and the women's saber team events. Haryana also gave strong competition to Maharashtra in the men's Epee team event, ultimately settling for far among nine fencing gold, Haryana have four and Maharashtra two. Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh and Rajasthan have won a gold each.
The Hindu
14-05-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Khelo India Youth Games Day 11: Maharashtra set to take team championship title; Bihar keeps winning golds
Thanks to 10 gold medals from Track and Field events, Maharashtra is set to win the team championship title with a day left for the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 and has a huge lead over Haryana and Rajasthan on the medal tally on Wednesday. Host Bihar may not be among the top 10 teams in this edition of Khelo India but it continues to make an impression. Bihar's tally of gold medals swelled to seven with victories from an unexpected quarter, Thang-Ta, a traditional martial art practiced in North-East India. Coached by a Manipuri, Bihar won two Thang-Ta golds in Gaya. Every evening on the tracks of the Patliputra Sports Complex, Bihar has joined the party. On another sweltering evening, Khushi Yadav ran a lonely race to win the 2000m steeplechase gold with ease. It was Bihar's second gold from Track and Field after Alka Singh's shotput gold. The weightlifting competition, that has produced 13 youth national records, came to an end in Rajgir on Wednesday. Bihar and Jammu Kashmir won their first weightlifting medals of the Games in a sport where Maharashtra were dominant. ALSO READ | Maharashtra's Sairaj breaks weightlifting record; Athletics sees flurry of meet records The boxing competition, which also came to an end, threw up a few surprises with Mizoram's Samuel Zadeng with his gold in the 70 kg category. As expected, Haryana boxers dominated the ring and have caught the attention of the talent spotters. In the men's football final in Begusarai, Jharkhand defeated Odisha for the boys' title. Meghalaya and Mizoram finished joint third. The final was well contested with Odisha and Jharkhand finishing 2-2- after regulation time. In the shootout that followed, Jharkhand won 5-4. On the penultimate day of wrestling competition, Haryana grapplers dominated the podium taking three of the seven golds on offer. In girls' 69kg weight division, Haryana's Manisha emerged the champion after defeating Rajasthan's Palak Yadav 4-0 while the bronze medals went to Anshika Yadav of Uttar Pradesh and Sukhdeep Kumari of Punjab. In boys' Greco Roman category, Haryana's Vineet (71kg) took home the gold while in boys' U-17 Freestyle category, Sahil enriched the state with the third gold in the 55kg category after beating Delhi's Chirag Dahiya. The bronze medals went to Maharashtra duo of Soham Sunil Kumbhar and Dhanraj Ganapati Jamnik. Thursday will be the final day of the competition with seven wrestling gold medals up for grabs. Even if Haryana wins all seven, Maharashtra look home and dry with a massive lead of 20-plus golds. Related Topics Khelo India Youth Games
