Patna, May 12: Promising weightlifter Sairaj Pardeshi of Maharashtra hogged the limelight, breaking three youth national records en route to the 81kg gold medal on the ninth day of the Khelo India Youth Games here on Monday.
Pardeshi’s effort was special. In the 81 kg category, he broke records in snatch (140 kg), clean and jerk (172 kg) and total lift (312 kg), leaving Andhra Pradesh’s M. Tarun (287 kgs) and Uttar Pradesh’s Aayush Rana (264 kg) in his wake.
It also helped Maharashtra to stay on top of the medal tally with 35 gold medals, followed by Karnataka and Rajasthan.
The athletics competition began at the Patliputra Sports Complex here and four meet records already tumbled.
Jithin Arjunan (Tamil Nadu) leapt to a new mark in the long jump as his 7.65m erased the record of 7.42m created by Aryan Choudhary of Delhi in Panchkula, 2022.
Uttar Pradesh’s Kadir Khan set a meet record in the under-18 400m boys’ heats.
Khan clocked 47.67 seconds to erase the meet record held by Kerala’s Abdul Razzak (48.34 sec) set in the Pune Games in 2019. (PTI)
