Aditya Pisal finds soothes hurting heart with twin gold sprint show

Khel Today Bureau

Patna: Aditya Paisal stole the limelight with powerful demonstration of his sprinting prowess, both in the 100m and on the curve, by winning two gold medals in the Athletics competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar at the Patliputra Sports Complex here on Tuesday.

He won the boys 100m in 10.62 seconds and then ran the third leg on the curve to help Maharashtra boys’ 4x100m Relay team to gold in 4155 seconds, both times being new meet records. This would have come as a balm for his heart, hurting from the time he was disqualified for an early start in the 100m in the National Youth Championships here a couple of months back.

On a night when five meet marks were established, including by Sadhana Ravi (Tamil Nadu) in the girls Triple Jump and Riddhi (Haryana) in the girls Discus Throw and when Bihar’s athletes claimed three silver and a bronze, it was Aditya Paisal who was the star performer.

Aditya Pisal surprised the field in the short sprint. Known more as a 200m runner, he made his maiden 100m race on the domestic circuit a memorable one. But he had to overcome a rather sluggish start, to catch up with the leader Prince Kumar (Bihar) and then lunging forward to claim victory with the meet record to boot.

Aditya Pisal returned to the track and played a key role in setting up Maharashtra boys 4x100m victory with a new meet record time of 41.55 seconds. Teaming up with Arjun Deshpande, 110m Hurdles gold medalist Saif Chapekar and Rudra Shinde, he scripted the fastest time in the event in Khelo India Youth Games history.

He was slow of the blocks perhaps because he remembered making an early start and being disqualified in the National Youth Championships. He made up for that start by generating power to leave all behind. With a better start, he could have challenged National Youth Record of 10.55 seconds held by Amit Kumar Shah since 2002 and realised his dream of becoming the fastest Indian U18 runner ever.

With a time of 47.34 second, Kadir Khan (Uttar Pradesh) improved on his own 400m meet mark that he set during the heats on Monday. He was challenged by Karnataka’s Sayed Sabeer but Piyush Raj (Bihar) rode on his stronger will to fling himself across the line to win a dramatic silver for the home State.

Earlier, Bihar’s Piyush Raj, who missed the National Youth Championships on home turf and the opportunity to be a part of the Indian relay team in last month’s Asian Youth Championships in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, marked his return to the track with a well-earned silver.

Edwina Jason clocked a sub-56-second time to win the women’s quarter-mile gold in 55.90 seconds. Drawn on the outermost lane, she knew she would have little idea about how her competitors was faring until the home straight. She focused on finding the power to leave no one in doubt that she had got the measure of Haryana’s Deepika.

Prisha Mishra emerged the fastest girl of the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar, clocking 11.85 seconds for her maiden sub-12 second time. She would have been hoping for a second medal in the 4x100m relay but despite having two of the fastest sprinters in the quartet, Haryana finished outside the podium.

Shourya Ambure (Maharashtra) who picked up her second medal, a silver in the sprint to add to the gold in 100m Hurdles she won on Monday, clocked 12.02 seconds, also a personal best time, as she edged out National Youth Champion Aarti. Later she anchored Maharashtra to a facile win in the girls 4x100m relay.

The other gold medal winners on Tuesday were Uttar Pradesh’s Bablu Kumar (boys 1500m), Jharkhand’s Himanshu Kumar (boys High Jump), Rajasthan’s Ansh (boys Hammer Throw), Maharashtra’s Janhavi Dnyaneshwar Hirudkar who narrow missed setting a meet mark in girls 1500m.

The results (finals): 

Boys

100m: 1. Aditya Pisal (Maharashtra) 10.62 seconds (New Meet Record. Old: 10.63, Sadanand Kumar, Jharkhand, Panchkula, 2022); 2. Prince Kumar (Bihar) 10.64; 3. Rudra Sachin Shinde (Maharashtra) 10.78.

400m: 1. Kadir Khan (Uttar Pradesh) 47.34 seconds (New Meet Record. Old: 47.67 seconds, Kadir Khan, Uttar Pradesh, Patna, 2025); 2. Piyush Raj (Bihar) 47.43; 3. Syed Sabeer (Karnataka) 47.50.

1500m: 1. Bablu Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) 3:56.36; 2. Avdesh (Madhya Pradesh) 3:56.78; 3. Vijay Kumar (Bihar) 3:57.12.

High Jump: 1. Himanshu Kumar (Jharkhand) 1.97m; 2. RS Sujan (Tamil Nadu) 1.94m; 3. Ambreish K (Tamil Nadu) and M Ashok Kumar (Tamil Nadu) 1.94.

Shot Put: 1. Omkar Prasad Nanda (Odisha) 20.89m; 2. Akhand Pratap Singh (Uttar Pradesh) 19.46; 3. Nishchay. (Haryana) 19.42.

Hammer Throw: 1. Ansh (Rajasthan) 66.90m; 2. Aman (Haryana) 63.22; 3. Manjot Singh (Punjab) 63.14.

4x100m Relay: 1. Maharashtra (Arjun Deshpande, Saif Chapekar, Aditya Pisal and Rudra Shinde) 41.55 seconds (New Meet Record. Old: 42.23, Odisha, Bhopal, 2023); 2. Bihar 42.04; 3. Tamil Nadu 42.36.

Girls

100m: 1. Prisha Mishra (Haryana) 11.85 seconds; 2. Shourya Ambure (Maharashtra) 12.02; 3. Aarti (Haryana) 12.05.

400m: 1. Edwina Jason (Tamil Nadu) 55.90 seconds; 2. Deepika (Haryana) 56.66; 3. Kashish Bhagat (Maharashtra) 56.83.

1500m: 1. Janhavi Dnyaneshwar Hirudkar (Maharashtra) 4:35.69; 2. Mahee (Delhi) 4:42.89; 3. Pranathi (Karnataka) 4:45.08.

Triple Jump: 1. Sadhana Ravi (Tamil Nadu) 12.75m (New Meet Record. Old: 12.69m, Poorva Sawant, Maharashtra, Panchkula, 2022); 2. Anmol (Haryana) 11.78; 3. D Durga Sri (Tamil Nadu) 11.64.

Discus Throw: 1. Riddhi (Haryana) 48.79m (New Meet Record. Old: Discus Throw: 48.21, Kiran, Haryana, Panchkula, 2022); 2. KS Anushree (Tamil Nadu) 42.35; 3. Oshin (Haryana) 41.14.

4x100m Relay: 1. Maharashtra (Swanandi Sawant, Shrestha Shetty, Bhumika Nehate and Shourya Ambure) 47.71 seconds; 2. Tamil Nadu 49.42; 3. Kerala 49.83.