Sukhdeep kumari

Khelo India Youth Games: With their athletes bagging 10 gold medals, Maharashtra maintained their position at the top of the tally and are all set to win the team championship title with a day left for the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 to end. Thanks to their athletes' dominance in the track and field competition, Maharashtra has a huge lead over Haryana and Rajasthan, at No. 2 and No. 3 on the medal tally on Wednesday.

Host Bihar may not be among the top 10 teams in this edition of Khelo India, but they continue to make an impression. Bihar’s tally of gold medals swelled to seven with victories from an unexpected quarter, Thang-Ta, a traditional martial art practiced in North-East India. Coached by a Manipuri, Bihar won two Thang-Ta gold medals in Gaya.

Every evening, on the tracks of the Patliputra Sports Complex, Bihar has come to the party. On another sweltering evening, Khushi Yadav ran a lonely race to win the 2000m steeplechase gold with consummate ease. It was Bihar’s second gold in track and field after Alka Singh’s shot put gold.