Guwahati Maharashtra topped the medal table again after winning four gold medals on the fifth day of the Khelo Youth Games on Tuesday. Haryana, who performed brilliantly by winning 12 gold medals on Monday, is now in second place in the table with 18 gold and a total of 54 medals. Maharashtra has so far won 89 medals, including 21 gold. Delhi ranks third in this list with a total of 41 medals with 15 gold.
Maharashtra Topped
On Tuesday, Uttar Pradesh players also performed brilliantly, winning four gold medals. With this, Uttar Pradesh defeated Tamil Nadu and Gujarat in the medal table and came in fourth place. Vijay Kashyap (200m), Uttam Yadav (1500m) and Muhammad Shahbaz (Hammer Throw) of Uttar Pradesh won gold medals in athletics in boys’ U-17s. While Gaurav Kumar in parallel bars of gymnastics of the same age group won gold. Won In four categories of table tennis, players from four different states won.
Fidel Survajula (Men’s Under-21) of Telangana, Anusha Kutumbale (Women’s Under-21) of Madhya Pradesh. Adarsh Chhetri (Men’s Under-17) of Delhi and Diya Chile (Men’s Under-17) of Maharashtra won Table Tennis Gold. Karnataka also won three gold medals on Tuesday and made it to the top-10 teams of the medal table.
Gangotri Returned Gold After A Road Accident
Gangotri Bordoloi of Assam, who won a gold medal at the Khelo India Youth Games. Would have lost his dream of a cycling career if his mother had not come in his way. Five years ago, Gangotri suffered an injury while practicing in which he suffered a serious injury apart from fracture of his shoulder. Due to this injury, she stayed away from the game for a year.
However, on the strength of his strong will, he came back. And won the gold medal of the Khelo India Youth Games girls under-21 road race event on Monday. 17-year-old Gangotri said that after seeing my state my mother advised me to quit the game but my father sided with me who is in the police. My father is my inspiration who always supported me.
