Sanket Mahadev Sargar from Shivaji University, Kolhapur and Prashant Suresh Koli from Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon broke national records to clinch gold and silver respectively in the men’s 55kg weightlifting event at the Khelo India University Games 2020 in Odisha on Wednesday.

Sanket set a new record in 138kgs Clean & Jerk lift and also holds the record for the total in the same event with 244kgs. Shubham Todkar from Maharashtra held the record for Clean & Jerk event while the total record was held by Ch. Rishikanta Singh from Manipur.