KIYG 2022: Host Madhya Pradesh won gold in hockey, made record in weightlifting

Host Madhya Pradesh on Friday won the gold medal in the boys’ hockey competition on the last day of the Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Madhya Pradesh i.e. on the 12th day of the event. The team defeated Odisha 3-2 in the competition held at MP Mahila Academy Turf, Gwalior. While Manipur’s weightlifter M. Martina Devi won the gold medal in the girls’ 81kg+ category. With this gold medal, he also broke three national youth records.

 

Maharashtra won a total of 53 gold, 53 silver and 47 bronze medals in the Khelo India Youth Games 2022. With these medals, Maharashtra topped the medal tally. Haryana and Madhya Pradesh came second and third with 40 and 36 gold respectively. At the same time, after the boys’ hockey competition, the Madhya Pradesh team missed out on winning the gold medal in the girls’ hockey competition. Jharkhand’s team won 4-3.

 

Kerala and Manipur won boys’ and girls’ football gold medals respectively, while top seed Aryan Shah of Gujarat and second seed Suhita Maruri of Karnataka won gold medals in boys’ and girls’ tennis singles.

 

Three more national youth records were created by an individual again at Indore’s basketball complex, the venue of the weightlifting competition. Manipur’s M. Martina Devi won gold in the girls’ 81kg+ category with a total lift of 199kg. It was not just a national youth record but also snatch (88 kg) and clean and jerk (111 kg). In the girls’ 81kg category, Andhra’s Chowdhary Sree Lakshmi won the gold medal with a total lift of 191kg. In the boys’ 102kg category, Delhi’s Akshat Sharma won the gold by lifting 274kg. Boys’ 102kg+ Paramveer Singh of Chandigarh won gold with a total lift of 311kg.

 

Earlier in the day, Haryana beat Odisha 1-0 in the girls’ hockey bronze, while Punjab beat Jharkhand 2-0 in the boys’ bronze. Kerala won the boys’ football competition when they defeated Karnataka 2–0 at the Emerald Heights Football Ground in Indore. In the first half of the game, Shriraj CP (31st minute) and Kiran K (43rd minute) scored for the winning side. In the girls’ football final, Manipur beat West Bengal 1-0 with Babita Oinam Devi scoring a goal in the 74th minute of the game.