Khelo India Youth Video games: Pole vaulter Dev Kumar units junior nationwide mark

Madhya Pradesh’s Dev Kumar Meena rewrote the boys’ pole vault nationwide document en path to his gold medal effort on the ongoing Khelo India Youth Video games in Bhopal on Friday. Meena recorded a leap of 4.91m to interrupt Rakesh Gond’s earlier nationwide mark of 4.90m.

Meena’s effort, nevertheless, couldn’t cease Maharashtra from holding on to the highest spot within the medal tally on account of getting extra silvers, as each they and the hosts tallied 14 golds on the finish of the fifth day.

Within the monitor occasions, Doondapati Jayara of Odisha and Tamanna of Haryana emerged because the quickest boy and lady within the competitors within the 100m sprint. Tamanna clocked 12.16 seconds whereas Jayara’s time of 10.53 seconds would have been a nationwide youth document however for wind help.

In desk tennis, West Bengal’s Ankur Bhattacharjee, contemporary from his under-19 boys title in Surat, produced one other gold-winning efficiency. He beat Uttar Pradesh’s Divyansh Srivastava ( 11-3, 11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 11-4) within the youth boys ultimate. Maharashtra claimed the general TT championship and the second spot went to West Bengal, regardless of a tie with UP. The previous received the jury’s unanimous vote, because of Ankur’s gold.

Within the Archery recurve competitions, Rajasthan’s Rampal Choudhary defeated West Bengal’s Juyel Sarkar 6-2 within the ultimate for gold. Ridhi of Haryana gained the ladies recurve with a 6-2 win over state-mate Bhajan Kaur. The truth is, it was 1-2-3 Haryana as Tisha Punia gained bronze.

Within the Compound Archery occasions, Haryana’s Kushal Dalal gained gold with a 147-141 victory over Andhra’s TG Mani Ratnam within the boys ultimate whereas Maharashtra’s Aditi Gopichand Swami defeated Rajasthan’s Priya Gurjar 146-145 for the ladies gold.