AFI media
New Delhi
The Indian observe and subject contingent completed third with 27 medals on the 25th Asian Athletics Championships that concluded in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday. The Indian athletes gained as many as eight silver and 5 bronze medals on Sunday, however weren’t capable of swell their gold medal tally. The nationwide group gained 6 gold, 12 silver and 9 bronze medals to end third behind Japan (37 medals) and China (22 medals).
In a extremely anticipated 4x400m relay competitions, the Indian males’s group—Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Ajmal, Mijo Kurian Chacko and Rajesh Ramesh—in that order–completed second with a time of three:01.80 seconds, whereas the ladies’s group trailed at third spot, clocking 3:33.73 seconds. The members of the ladies’s relay squad have been Rezoana Mallick Heena, Aishwarya Misra, Jyothika Sri Dandi, Suba Venkatesan.
Radhakrishnan Nair, chief athletics coach, stated he was anticipating gold medals in each the 4x400m women and men’s relay immediately. “A greater planning may have fetched us gold medals in each the relays,” the chief athletics coach stated throughout media interplay on Sunday.
The boys’s 4x400m relay has a superb likelihood to qualify for the Budapest World Athletics Championships beginning August 19 in Hungary, the chief coach stated. High 16 groups as per world rating on July 30, might be eligible to compete in Budapest.
To additional enhance their international rating, the nationwide relay groups will compete within the upcoming nationwide competitors in Sri Lanka.
Indian athletes additionally gave a superb account of themselves within the particular person occasions, however weren’t in a position so as to add gold medals to their profiles.
India’s 100m hurdles specialist and winner of gold, Jyothi Yarraji fell in need of her objective so as to add one other gold to her kitty immediately. She settled for a silver in 200m with a private finest time of 23.13 seconds. Whereas shot putter Abha Khatua equaled the nationwide document and gained silver medal with a throw of 18.06m. Manpreet Kaur gained bronze with a throw of 17m.
Distance runner Parul Chaudhary completed second within the girls’s 5000m. Earlier, within the competitors she had gained gold within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase.
Javelin thrower Manu DP too needed to be happy with a silver medal.
Outcomes:
Males:
800m: Abdalla Abubaker Haydar (Qatar) 1:45:53 secs, Krishan Kumar (India) 1:45.88 secs, Ebrahim Alzofairi (Kuwait) 1:46.11 secs.
5000m: Hyuga Endo (Japan) 13:34.94 secs, Kazuya Shiojiri (Japan) 13:43.92 secs, Gulveer Singh (India) 13:48.33 secs.
20km race stroll: Yutaro Murayama (Japan) 1:24:41 secs, Wang Kaihua (China) 1:25.30, Vikash Singh (India) 1:29:33 secs.
Javelin throw: Roderik Dean Genki (Japan) 83.15m. Manu DP (India) 81.01m, Muhammad Yasir (Pakistan) 79.93m.
4x400m relay: Sri Lanka 3:01.56 secs, India 3:01.80 secs, Qatar 3:04.26 secs
Girls:
200m: Shanti Pereira Veronica (Singapore) 22.70 secs, Jyothi Yarraji (India) 23.13 secs, Li Yuting (China) 23.26 secs.
800m: Tharushi Dilsara (Sri Lanka) 2:00.66 secs, KM Chanda (India) 2:01.58 secs, Gyanthika Artigala Thushari (Sri Lanka) 2:03.26 secs.
5000m: Yuma Yamamoto (Japan) 15:51.16 secs, Parul Chaudhary (India) 15:52.35 secs, Ankita (India) 16:03.33.
20km race stroll: Yang Liujing (China) 1:32:38 secs, Priyanka Goswami (India) 1:34:24 secs, Yukiko Umeno (Japan) 1:36:18 secs, Bhawna Jat (India) 1:38:27 (fifth).
Shot put: Music Jiayuan (China) 18.88m, Abha Khatua (India) 18.06m, Manpreet Kaur (India) 17m.
4x400m relay: Vietnam 3:32.36 secs, Sri Lanka 3:33.27, India 3:33.73 secs.