Khelo India Youth Games: Maharashtra tops 200-medal mark

West Bengal’s Soubrity Mondal claimed three gold medals in the swimming competition in the Khelo India Youth Games on Monday but Maharashtra’s Kenisha Gupta and Karnataka’s Srihari Nataraj are well on course to become the most successful athlete at the Games.

Though only their swimmers found gold on Monday, Maharashtra remained entrenched at the top of the medals tally with 63 gold. They drew immense joy in crossing the 200-medal mark, finishing the day with 204 after their Girls Under-21 basketball team fell at the final hurdle to Kerala 63-88 in the title clash. Chandigarh won the boys under-17 hockey gold, also via the penalty shoot-out after sharing four goals in regulation time with Uttar Pradesh.

-TIN Bureau

About Khelo India Youth Games

Khelo India Youth Games is a part of the revamped national programme for development of sports, Khelo India. After the resounding success of the Khelo India School Games in 2018 and 2019, it is back in 2020 in a much bigger and better version as the Youth Games. For the first time students from colleges and universities are participating, and will have a total of 9000 participants. The 3rd Khelo India Youth Games is being held from January 10, 2020, and January 22, 2020, in Guwahati, Assam, India. The event is held in 20 disciplines with participation from all the states and union territories.