Pooja sanjay thepekar

Khelo India Youth Games: Odisha’s Harhbardhan Sahu made history on Saturday by creating two youth national records to clinch gold in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games at the Rajgir Sports Complex.

Harshbardhan’s lift of 115kg in clean & jerk and overall total of 203kg are both national youth records, surpassing last year’s mark held by Babulal Hembrom (Snatch 88 + 114 clean & jerk) of Jharkhand at the IWF World Youth Championships in Suva, Fiji.

There was another flurry of national youth records in the last event on Saturday. In girls’ 49kg, Asmita Dhone stamped her authority by creating a youth national record thrice with a lift of 91kg, 95kg and 97kg to capture gold for Maharashtra with a total lift of 170kg (73+93). Uttar Pradesh’s Mansi Chamunda (75+88) of Uttar Pradesh and Pooja Sanjay Thepekar (60+72) settled for silver and bronze, respectively.