National aquatics

Khelo India Youth Games: Maharashtra swimmer Palak Joshi improved on her 200m backstroke national mark while Tamil Nadu weightlifter R.P Keerthana won the girls' 81kg category by breaking Snatch and overall National Youth records on the penultimate day of the Khelo India Youth Games 2023 being held in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday.

Joshi, who represented India in the 2022 Asian Games, was miles ahead of the competition as she stopped the clock at 2:18.59s, setting a timing lower than her senior national mark of 2:18.90s set at the National Aquatics championships in Hyderabad last July.

The Swimming Federation of India will recognise it as the ‘Best Indian Performance’ as SFI only considers the best performances in the National Games as National Records.