Asian Athletics: India log out with 24 medals; Sachin, Parul, ladies’s relay workforce win silver

Gumi (South Korea): A brand new nationwide document, a string of private bests, and 6 final-day medals capped India’s marketing campaign on the twenty sixth Asian Athletics Championships with the nation signing off with a complete haul of 24 medals right here on Saturday.

Whereas gold proved elusive on the ultimate day, Indian athletes delivered a collection of gritty performances to safe three silver and as many bronze medals.

Parul Chaudhary claimed her second silver of the meet with a powerful run within the ladies’s 5000m, clocking 15:15.33s to complete second, including to the silver she had earlier gained within the 3000m steeplechase.

Whereas javelin thrower Sachin Yadav earned his silver with a private greatest effort, the ladies’s 4x100m relay workforce, that includes Abinaya Rajarajan, Sneha SS, Srabani Nanda, and Nithya Gandhe, clocked a season-best 43.86s to bag India’s last silver.

Sprinter Animesh Kujur blazed to a nationwide document of 20.32s to clinch a a bronze within the males’s 200m for India.

Center distance runner Pooja recorded a private greatest to take bronze within the ladies’s 800m, whereas Asian Video games medallist Vithya Ramraj secured the third place within the ladies’s 400m hurdles.

India thus wrapped up the championships with 8 gold, 10 silver, and 6 bronze medals.

Whereas the general depend fell wanting the 27 medals gained within the earlier version, the contingent has improved on the gold tally, rising it from 6 to eight.

Private bests for Sachin and Yashvir

Within the absence of two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra, each the Indian javelin throwers produced private greatest efforts.

Rising star Sachin despatched his spear to 85.16m in his final try to complete behind Pakistan’s reigning Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, who was showing in his first competitors because the Paris Video games final yr. The Pakistani fetched the gold with an 86.40m throw.

Hailing from a farmer’s household at Khekra village close to Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, the 25-year-old Sachin had a earlier private better of 84.39m.

Fellow Indian Yashvir Singh additionally impressed with a private better of 82.57m for a fifth-place end.

Kujur wins India’s first males’s dash medal in a decade

India’s first medal of the day got here by Kujur, who ended a decade-long look ahead to the nation within the males’s 200m with a bronze.

It was India’s first within the occasion since Dharambir Singh’s bronze within the 2015 version.

The 21-year-old from Odisha delivered a standout efficiency, clocking a nationwide document of 20.32 seconds, bettering his personal mark of 20.40s set earlier this yr on the Nationwide Federation Senior Athletics Competitors.

Japan’s Towa Uzawa gained gold with a time of 20.12s, whereas Saudi Arabia’s Abdulaziz Abdu I Atafi took silver in 20.31s.

Bronze for Vithya, Pooja

Asian Video games medallist bronze Vithya sailed easily over the ladies’s 400m hurdles to complete on the third step of the rostrum. The 26-year-old Tamil Nadu athlete clocked 56.46s to complete on the rostrum.

China’s Mo Jiadie clinched gold in 55.31s, edging out Bahrain’s Oluwakemi Adekoya, who completed second in 55.32s. Anu Raghavan, the opposite Indian within the race, was positioned seventh with 57.46s.

Pooja grabbed India’s third bronze of the day as she completed the ladies’s 800m with a private greatest of two:01.89s.

Within the ladies’s 200m last, Jyoti Yarraji completed fifth with a time of 23.47s, whereas Nithya Gandhe got here seventh in 23.90s. Yarraji had gained gold within the ladies’s 100m hurdles earlier within the week.

Within the males’s 800m, Krishan Kumar and Anu Kumar completed seventh and eight, respectively.