Pune University wins three golds

BHUBANESWAR: Savitribai Phule Pune University tightened their grip on the top place in the medal tally at the inaugural Khelo India University Games 2020 by claiming a clutch of gold medals in weightlifting through Mahesh Datta Asawale and Prajkta Ravindra Khalkar and in wrestling through Jyotiba Bajrang Atkale on Thursday.

With the gold eluding Panjab University (Chandigarh) and Jain University (Bengaluru), they have remained on eight each. 

The Pune University, though, have 13 gold medals to surge ahead. 

Guru Nanak Dev University (Amritsar) and University of Mumbai complete the top five on the charts.

Mahesh Asawale, who won the All-India Inter-University Championships in Mohali last December with total lifts of 258kg, showed an improvement here. He lifted 123kg in Snatch and 143 in Clean & Jerk for a total of 266kg. Having returned to the sport in September after a year-long suspension after a dope rule violation, he celebrated in some style.

RESULTS
Weightlifting:
Men:
67kg class: 1. Mahesh Datta Asawale (Savitribai Phule Pune University) 266kg (Snatch 123kg, Clean & Jerk 143kg); 2. Juturi Koteswara Rao (Krishna University) 243 (105, 138); 3. Mithlesh Sonkar (Hemchand Yadav University) 238 (103, 135).
73kg class: 1. Manoja Kumar Sahu (Berhampur University) 267kg (115, 152); 2, Manish Kumar (Panjab University) 253 (114, 139); 3. Lovepreet Singh (Punjabi University) 253 (113, 140).

Women:
59kg class: 1. Yumnan Khomdonbi Chanu (Lovely Professional University, Phagwara) 175kg (75, 100); 2. Sneha (Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak) 160 (69, 91); 3. Vennala Dhanalaxmi (Acharya Nagarjuna University) 155 (70, 85).
64kg class: 1. Prajkta Ravindra Khalkar (Savitribai Phule Pune University) 185kg (84, 101); 2. Shivani Sanjay More (University of Mumbai) 167 (73, 94); 3. Komal Khan (Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut) 164 (74, 90).