February 3, 2018 9:28 PM

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Khelo India School Games: Tamil Nadu leads medals tally in athletics with 19 medals

With competition in athletics coming to an end on Saturday in Khelo India School Games, Tamil Nadu leads the medals tally in athletics with 19 medals of which 5 are gold and 8 silver. Kerala follows next with 17 medals, Haryana 12 medals and Maharashtra 11 medals. They all got 5 golds each. Though Uttar Pradesh got 16 medals, its gold tally in athletics is only 2. The winners of 5000 meter boys race on Saturday were Paramjeet Singh of Uttarakhand -gold and Mukesh Kumar, also of Uttarakhand getting silver. Mansi Negi of Uttarakhand won gold in 3,000 meter girls race walk and K M.Munita Prajapati from the same state got silver. Taking other events like wrestling, swimming into account, Maharashtra had a total of 25 medals on Friday as compared to 23 for Haryana and 20 for Karnataka.

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