GUWAHATI, Jan 19 - Assam girl Shivangi Sarma added her fourth gold medal in the ongoing 3rd Khelo India Youth Games.
Today she won gold medal in the girls U-21 100m freestyle event at the Dr. Zakir Hussain Aquatic Centre in Sarusajai Sports Complex. She clocked 59.26 seconds. Goa�s Saachi Gramopahyay and Kiran Shet Nariyekar took silver and bronze medals respectively in that event.
Weightlifter Dimpi Dutta won a bronze medal for Assam today in the girls U-21 (70kg) category. Assam boy Bikram Changmai, representing Delhi won gold in 100m butterfly with a timing of 56.64 seconds in boys U-17 group.
Meanwhile women boxers Priyanka Borah (U-21) and Ankushita Boro (U-17) entered the final.
Assam U-17 boys team stormed into the football final defeating Odisha 3-1. For Assam, Nicodim Narzary (2) and Tomothi Narzary were the goal scorers. In badminton, Assam boys and girls U-17 teams entered the semifinals.
Maharashtra finished the day with a whopping 60 gold in their 193-medal haul. Yet, Shivangi Sarma celebrated her return to her hometown after training in Delhi over the past couple of years with an impressive fourth gold in 59.26 seconds. Kenisha Gupta (Maharashtra) won the under-17 race in a faster time.
Mihir Ambre, Rudranish Mishra and Aaron Fernandes helped Maharashtra make light of the five-second lead that India�s best backstroke swimmer Srihari Nataraj opened up for Karnataka to win the 4x100m medley relay by 0.24 seconds. This dramatic win saw them finish the day with nine gold at the Dr. Zakir Hussain Aquatics Complex and inch close to Karnataka�s 10.
Maharashtra got richer as the two under-17 kho-kho teams, two wrestlers and three weightlifters added to their gold collection on Sunday. Haryana, on the contrary, managed three gold through their wrestlers and watched their rivals enhance their lead at the top of the medals table.
