MU win 4x100m medley relay gold in Khelo India Games
BHUBANESWAR: Twins Jyoti and Aarti Patil continued to excel at the Khelo India University Games as they helped Mumbai University add one more gold to their tally by helping the team win the 4x100m medley relay on Tuesday.
Jyoti and Aarti, the identical twins, who have claimed seven medals on the first two days including a gold each, joined forces with Sanskriti Srinivasan and Rutuja Udeshi to clock four minutes, 54.91 seconds to win gold medal ahead of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences , Bangalore (4:59.37) and Jadavpur University (5:02.19), who claimed silver and bronze respectively.
While the Patil twins led Mumbai University’s charge in women’s swimming, Rudransh Mishra added a silver and bronze medals to the tally. He finished second in 50m freestyle in 23.80 seconds, missing out on the gold medal by two milliseconds on the opening day. Mishra, from Parel and a student of RA Podar College, Matunga, clocked 30.20 seconds in 50m breaststroke to claim bronze behind Ansh Arora and M Sejwal.
DHURI, AMBRE WIN GOLD FOR PUNE
Meanwhile, swimmer Sadhvi Dhuri scooped two gold while Mihir Ambre won his second title to steer Savitribai Phule Pune University to the top of the medal table on the fifth day of the competitions on Tuesday.
Savitribai Phule University has now won 7 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze for a total of 14 medals.
Panjab University, Chandigarh, picked up a gold through their opening day’s star swimmer Siddhanth Sejwal, to be in the second spot with 6 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
Jain University, Bengaluru (6 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze) and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (6 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze) are at third and fourth respectively. Punjabi University, Patiala, jumped to the fifth place with 3 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze.
The 19-year-old Sadhvi Dhuri was the toast of the swimming competitions on Tuesday, winning the 200m freestyle comfortably in 2:14.99 and the 100m butterfly after a close battle with Damini Gowda (Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences).
In one of the most exciting races, Dhuri won by a 0.60-second margin. The two wins took her tally of gold here to three.