Diu, May 22 -- Maharashtra's Diksha Yadav showed excellent strength and stamina to clinch her second gold medal in the open sea swimming competition of the first Khelo India Beach Games here on Thursday. Diksha had won the 10km race on Wednesday, and she won a close 5km race in the Arabian Sea this morning.

When she surfaced on the Ghoghla Beach, the 19-year-old Diksha, who clocked 1 hour 10 minutes and 12 seconds, was just 13 seconds ahead of statemate Purva Gawade (1:10.25) and bronze winner Asara R. Sudhir of Karnataka (1:10:29). The men's race, another close affair, was won by Karnataka's Drupad Ramakrishna (1:06.46), according to a press release from SAI Media.

Twenty-eight of the 46 gold medals at stake in the Khelo India Beach Ga...