After being neck and neck from day one, hosts Haryana and defending champions Maharashtra will fittingly battle it out one last time on Monday, June 13, hoping to annex the Khelo India Youth Games, 2021 crown.
Amazingly, on the penultimate day too, both collected five gold medals each to maintain the status quo of the last couple of days, with Maharashtra holding a solitary gold advantage.
At the time of writing, Maharashtra had 42 gold, 35 silver and 30 bronze while Haryana had 41 gold, 35 silver and 42 bronze. This includes the mallakhamb pole gold won by Maharashtra that is yet to reflect in the official medals tally.
Haryana will, however, enter the final day with utmost confidence as 20 gold are up for grabs in boxing. They have as many as 12 boxers in the finals while Maharashtra has only four.
They are also in both the handball finals and would fancy at least one gold. The boys are up against Delhi and their girls against Himachal Pradesh.
Maharashtra too is in both the kho-kho finals and is expected to take these gold. Neither Haryana nor Maharashtra are in the other finals, the two basketball matches and the Boys' table tennis and football summit clashes.
The day started with state archer Aditi Swami (girls compound) opening the gold medal account for their respective states.
Swimmer Apeksha Fernandes grabbed two gold medals in 200m butterfly and 50m breaststroke and table tennis star Diya Chitale defeated Delhi’s Lakshita Narang 4-3 in the Girls singles final and Rishabh Ghubde added gold for Maharashtra in boys pole mallakhamb.
However, if Maharashtra were hoping to open up a sizeable lead, Haryana judokas and swimmers had other plans.
Maharashtra Results All Finals
G: GOLD; S: SILVER; B: BRONZE
Table Tennis
Girls Singles- G: Diya Chitale (Maharashtra)
Archery
Girls
Compound- G: Aditi Gopichand Swami (Maharashtra)
Boys
Compound– S: Parth Korde (Maharashtra)
Apparatus Championship
Boys
Pole – G: Rishabh Ghubde (Maharashtra)
Hanging – S: Chetan Mankare (Maharashtra)
Apparatus Championship
Girls
Pole – B: Palak S Churi (Maharashtra)
Swimming
Boys
4X100M Freestyle – S: Maharashtra 3:39.41
Girls
200M Butterfly- G: Apeksha Fernandes (Mah) 02:18.39
50M Breaststroke – G: Apeksha Fernandes (Mah) 00: 33.78
Girls
-63KG – B: Gautami Kanchan (Maharashtra)
BOXING
Boys
Minimum Weight (46-48 KG) – Vishwanath Suresh (Maharashtra) bt Maan Singh (Jammu & Kashmir) 5-0
Bantam Weight (51-54 KG) – Victor Singh Shaikhom (Maharashtra) bt Gaurav (Delhi) 5-0
Feather Weight (54-57 KG) – Vijay Singh (Maharashtra) bt Ayush (Haryana) 4-1
Middle Weight (71-75 KG) – Kunal Ghortade (Maharashtra) bt Paramvir Singh (Punjab) WO;
Kho Kho
Girls (Semi-Finals)
Maharashtra bt West Bengal 9-8
Boys (Semi-Finals)
1. Maharashtra bt Delhi 15-9
Also Read: Khelo India Youth Games: Sprinters, Swimmers Keep Maharashtra In Race
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