SPO-KHELO WEIGHTLIFTING


PTI | Pune | Updated: 09-01-2019 23:13 IST | Created: 09-01-2019 23:13 IST
SPO-KHELO WEIGHTLIFTING
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Maharashtradominated the first day

of the weightlifting competitions at the Khelo India Youth

Games 2019, winning three of the four gold medals at the Shiv

Chhatrapati Sports Complex here Wednesday.

The hosts added a silver and a bronze as well to their

tally while Odisha picked up one gold and one silver medal.

Tamil Nadu ended the day with one silver through famed

lifter Satish Sivalingam's young cousin T Madhavan and a

bronze. Arunachal Pradesh had two bronze medals and

Chhattisgarh clinched one silver, a media release said.

Meanwhile, records tumbled during the day.

Maharashtra's Shubham Kolekar, who won the National

Youth championship a fortnight ago, improved his own clean and

jerk record by 1kg, lifting 139 kg after ensuring the he would

walk home with the 55kg junior gold ahead of Muna Nayak

(Odisha).

In the men's U-17 55kg category Maharashtra's Abhishek

Mahajan dominated proceedings to claim the gold, followed by

Subhash Lahre (Chhattisgarh) and Golom Tinku (Arunachal

Pradesh).

In the mens U-17 49kg category, Bhaktaram Desti

(Odisha) improved his ownmark in clean and jerk from 104kg to

105kg here winning the gold en-route, the release said.

Tamil Nadu youngsters T. Madhavan and K. Guru Kannan

took the other medals.

Earlier,Soumya Dalvi and Arati Tatgunti from

Maharashtra won the gold and silver medals respectivelyin the

women's U-17 40kg category, while Sandiya Gungli from Arnachal

Pradesh took the bronze medal.

Soumya surpassed her own record of 49kg in the snatch

event set in the National Championship in Nagpur in December

last by lifting 51kg. She then added a second record with a

total of 111kg to better her mark of 109kg set at Nagpur.

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