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Khelo India Youth Games: Haryana’s Sanjana improved on her National Youth records in Snatch, Clean and Jerk and Overall weight to clinch the girls' 76kg weightlifting gold while Maharashtra’s Sayali Wani came back from the brink to win the girls' singles table tennis gold in the Khelo India Youth Games 2023 on Monday.

Sanjana began by breaking her previous snatch record of 86kg twice, successfully lifting 87kg and 90kg in her second and third attempts and then successfully executed 113kg and 116kg lifts in Clean and Jerk as she lifted 31kgs more than Maharashtra’s Grishma Thorat, who won the silver with a total lift of 167kg.

Uttar Pradesh lifter Parv Chaudhary also improved on the clean and jerk national youth record in the boys’ 96kg weight category with a lift of 160kg on his way to gold. He lifted a total of 280 kg with Andhra Pradesh’s Arunesh Babu (258kg) and Haryana’s Aditya (249kg) taking the silver and bronze respectively.