School Games: Twin gymnasts win medals for Maha

Twin gymnasts Riddhi and Siddhi Hattekar from here have won a gold and a silver medals in an all-around individual event in the U-17 category in national school games being held in Agra on Wednesday.

Apart from the sisters, the Maharashtra team won a Gold medal in Rhythmic gymnastics U-14 category, stated a press release issued by District Sports Office in Aurangabad.

This team consisted of Sayukta Kale, Kimaya Karle, Swara Ghogle and Ria Khillare.

The Maharashtra team also won a bronze medal in the U-14 artistic event.

In the U-17 event, Riddhi with 41.75 points won gold, while her twin sister Siddhi with 40.35 points bagged the silver medal, it said.

Riya Kelkar from the state also clinched a silver medal in balancing beam, while Sayukta Kale won gold medal and Kimaya Karle bagged a silver medal each in rhythmic event.

In U-14 boys category of artistic gymnastics the Maharashtra team comprising Aryan Desai, Rudra Chafekar, Mann Kothari, Vinod Jain, Kaushik Raghuvanshi,