Khelo: Punjab weightlifters win three gold medals

Punjab ruled the weightlifting arena on the fourth day, winning three of the six golds on offer besides a silver and a bronze at the Khelo India Youth Games 2019here on Saturday.

Punjab were nowhere in the picture till Friday but made their mark on Saturday to bring themselves on par with Mizoram and Manipur, a media release issued here said.

Maharashtra, however, are on top of the weightlifting medals tally so far with six golds though Saturday was rather unproductive for the home state.

Andhra Pradesh's A S R K Yadav was the star of the day.

Yadav won the Under-17 gold by a massive margin, as his total of 267 kg (121 snatch and 146 Clean & Jerk), which was 29 kg better than the second placed Anil Singh of Punjab.

In the race for medals in U-21 section, he trumped Baldev Guru (from Punjab) in the snatch by lifting 121 kg but fell 2 kg short in clean and jerk, finishing with 146 kg.

Apart from Baldev Guru, Navdeep Kaur and Nikhil Tugnait won gold for Punjab's while ...