AFI Media
New Delhi
Thrilling contests had been on playing cards on the penultimate day of the twenty fifth Asian Athletics Championships being held in Bangkok, Thailand. Whereas the nationwide 4x400m blended relay staff battled laborious to win gold on the observe, lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar excelled on the leaping area to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games. The Indian contingent total gained one gold, three silver and one bronze medal.
The 4x400m blended staff of Rajesh Ramesh, Aishwarya Mishra, Amoj Jacob and Suba Venkatesan in that order, clocked 3:14.70 seconds, a nationwide report, to win gold. The nationwide staff additionally booked a berth for the Budapest World Athletics Championships scheduled to be held in Hungary from August 19.
On the lengthy leap area, Sreeshankar took time to heat up and ultimately soared to a distance of 8.37m, in his sixth and final try, to win silver. “It was an thrilling and difficult contest,” Sreeshankar stated within the post-media interplay. “It was a great day to have certified for the Paris Olympic Video games and win a silver medal.”
Sreeshankar had a collection of 8.10m, x, 8.12m, 8.11m, 8.13m and eight.37m.
Yu-Tang Lin of Chinese language Taipei gained gold with a distance of 8.40m. China’s Zhang Mingkun took residence the bronze medal with a leap of 8.08m.
India’s reliable worldwide heptathlete Swapna Barman overcame constant again ache to win silver. She scored 5840 factors. Swapna was planning to give up athletics as a consequence of accidents, however an intensive rehab programme made it potential for her to make a comeback. “I’ve minimize down on my coaching load because the again ache continues to be there. For the final two months I’m in a position to do one time observe,” Swapna stated after profitable silver on Saturday.
India’s Sarvesh Anil Kushare clinched silver within the males’s excessive leap. He crossed the bar at 2.26m, a private and season greatest.
Korea’s Woo Sanghyeok gained the gold with a top of two.28m, whereas Thailand’s Tawan Kaeodam gained bronze (2.26m).
India’s 100m hurdles champion Jyothi Yarraji appears a powerful contender for a medal within the girls’s 200m. Within the semis right now she posted a time of 23.29 secs, which was her season greatest and quickest among the many finalists.
Mohammed Afzal (1:48.86 secs) and Krishan Kumar (1:48.97 secs) made it to the ultimate of males’s 800m, whereas KM Chanda (2:04.55) and Lavika Kumari (2:09.06 secs) additionally certified for the ladies’s 800m ultimate.
End result
Males
400mh: Mohamed Hemeida Bassem (Qatar) 48.64 secs, Yusaku Kodama (Japan) 48.96 secs, Santhosh Kumar (India) 49.09 secs.
Lengthy leap: Yu-Tang Lin (Chinese language Taipei) 8.40m, Murali Sreeshankar (India) 8.37m, Zhang Mingkun (China) 8.08m.
Excessive leap: Woo Sanghyeok (Korea) 2.28m, Sarvesh Anil Kushare (India) 2.26m, Tawan Kaeodam (Thailand) 2.26m.
Combined 4x400m relay: India 3:14.70 secs, Sri Lanka 3:15.41, Japan 3:15.41
Ladies:
Heptathlon: Ekaterina Voronina (Uzbekistan) 6098 factors, Swapna Barman (India) 5840 factors, Yuki Yamasaki (Japan) 5696 factors.