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Khelo: Punjab weightlifters win three gold medals

Pune, Jan 12 (PTI)Punjab ruled the weightlifting

arena on the fourth day, winning three of the six golds on

offer besides a silver and a bronze at the Khelo India Youth

Games 2019here on Saturday.

Punjab were nowhere in the picture till Friday but

made their mark on Saturday to bring themselves on par with

Mizoram and Manipur, a media release issued here said.

Maharashtra, however, are on top of the weightlifting

medals tally so far with six golds though Saturday was rather

unproductive for the home state.

Andhra Pradesh's A S R K Yadav was the star of the

day.

Yadav won the Under-17 gold by a massive margin, as

his total of 267 kg (121 snatch and 146 Clean & Jerk), which

was 29 kg better than the second placed Anil Singh of Punjab.

In the race for medals in U-21 section, he trumped

Baldev Guru (from Punjab) in the snatch by lifting 121 kg but

fell 2 kg short in clean and jerk, finishing with 146 kg.

Apart from Baldev Guru, Navdeep Kaur and Nikhil

Tugnait won gold for Punjab's while Anil Singh and Gurkaran

Singh took silver and bronze respectively for their state.

Halavath Karthik from Telangana beat his opponents

quite comfortably with a total of 258kg in the89kg men's

youth (U-17) section(snatch112kg, clean and jerk 146kg).

Nikhil Tugnait gave Punjab their second gold in

the89kg men's junior event.

He hoisted 134 kg in snatch and added 160 kg to his

tally in clean and jerk for a total of294 kgs, the release

stated.

In women's action, Navdeep Kaur won the 64 kg (U-17)

class with a total lift of151kg.

It was a tight battle in the women's64 kg junior

class,between Seram Nirupama Devi of Manipur and G.

Lalitha of Andhra Pradesh with the former eventually

sealing gold by lifting a total of 196kg, (snatch 84 kg, clean

and jerk 112 kg), the release added.