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Khelo India Youth Games: Weightlifters continued to surge to new highs in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 while athletes were not too far from rewriting old records as action continued in the country's premier multi-discipline competition for youth.

On the ninth day of the seventh edition of the Games in Bihar on Monday, Netaji Subhas Institute (Patiala) trainee Sairaj Pardeshi broke three youth national records en route to winning the 81kg gold in Rajgir, and Haryana’s Tamanna added the 10th youth record to conclude another impressive day.

It was Day 1 of the athletics competition at the Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, and the competition got off to a roaring start. Four meet records were created, all by boys. Jithin Arjunan (Tamil Nadu) leapt to a new mark in the long jump. Jithin’s 7.65m erased the record of 7.42 m created by Aryan Choudhary of Delhi in Panchkula in 2022.