Mohammad basha

Khelo India Youth Games: Maharashtra’s Siya Sawant and Odisha’s Mohammad Basha became the fastest athletes of the 6th Khelo India Youth Games while Bihar’s Durga Singh and Rahul Sarnaliya of Uttarakhand improved on the girls and boys 1500m meet records on the second day of athletics competition at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium here on Wednesday.

Sprinter Siya led from start to finish to stop the clock at 12.10 seconds to pip local hope Abhinaya Rajarajan (12.21sec). Maharashtra’s Rujula Bhosale took the bronze with a timing of 12.23 sec.

The boy’s 100m final was a much closer affair with Basha pulling away from Tamil Nadu’s Gokul Pandiyan in the last 20 meters to win the race with a timing of 10.81 sec. Gokul took the silver with a time of 10.89s while Odisha’s Pratik Maharana bagged the bronze with a time of 10.95 seconds.