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KIYG 2023: Weightlifters Arati Tatgunti, AV Susmitha Break Youth Records To Win Gold (round-up)
Khelo India Youth Games: Maharashtra weightlifter Arati Tatgunti and A.V Susmitha of Andhra Pradesh set new National Youth Records to clinch gold medals in the girls' 49 kg and 55kg categories respectively on a day Haryana bagged four of the five gold on offer in wrestling to close in on second-placed Tamil Nadu in the 6th Khelo India Youth Games 2023 on Saturday.
In a keenly fought three-way contest between Arati, her statemate Soumya Dalvi and Assam’s Panchami Sonowal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in the 49kg category, the former emerged victorious lifting a total weight of 170, including 75 in snatch and 95 in Clean and Jerk, thereby creating new records in snatch, clean & jerk and overall.
In fact, silver medallist Sonowal also improved on the earlier marks, thereby forcing Arati to push herself to go for higher weights and the Maharashtra lifter executed her lifts with precision to hand her state second gold medal of the day from the weightlifting arena.
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