India finished their campaign with a new national record, several individual best performance and a total of 24 medals at the last day with a total of 24 medals at the 26th Asian Athletics Championships. Indian players failed to win a gold medal on Saturday on the last day of the competition but won three silver and equal bronze medals with a great performance.
Parul Chaudhary continued his brilliant performance and won the second silver medal and javelin throw player Sachin Yadav also finished second while runner Animesh Kujur won the bronze medal by breaking the national record. Vithya Ramraj and Pooja also won bronze medals in their respective events. The quartet of Abhinaya Rajarajan, Sneha SS, Shrabani Nanda and Nitya Gandhe won the women’s four times the 400 meter relay with the best performance of the session with a time of 43.86 seconds, which was India’s last medal in the competition.
India’s campaign thus ended with eight gold, 10 silver and six bronze medals. The Indian party won 27 medals in the last session but when the number of gold medals was six. Parul finished second in the 5000 meter race of women with a time of 15 minutes 15.33 seconds (15: 15.33 seconds). He had earlier also won a silver medal in 3000 meter steeplechase.
25 -year -old Yadav, emerging in the men’s javelin throw event, threw a spear for 85.16 meters while performing individually best.He lagged behind the current Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, who won the gold medal with the best attempt of 86.40 meters. Born in a peasant family of Khekra village near Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, Yadav’s personal best performance earlier was 84.39 meters.
Yashveer Singh, another India player participating in this event, also impressed and finished fifth, performing an individual best of 82.57 meters. Earlier, Kujur won a bronze medal, making a new national record of 20.32 seconds in the men’s 200 meter race on the last day of the competition. The 21 -year -olds improved their previous record of 20.40 seconds, which he made earlier this year at the National Federation Senior Athletics Championship. Tova Ujawa of Japan won a gold medal over time of 20.12 seconds, while Saudi Arabia’s Abdulazes Atafi (20.31 seconds) won the silver medal.
In the women’s 400m hurdles, Asian Games medalist Vithya gave India the second bronze medal of the day. The 26 -year -old athlete from Tamil Nadu secured a podium place with a time of 56.46 seconds. China’s Mo Jiyadi won the gold medal in 55.31 seconds, while Bahrain’s Oluvakmi Adcoya finished second with 55.32 seconds. Anu Raghavan, the second Indian player to participate in this race, finished seventh with a time of 57.46 seconds.
Pooja won the third bronze medal of the day for India. She finished third with a personal best time of women’s 800 meter race 2: 01.89 seconds. In the women’s 200 meter race, Jyoti Yaraji finished fifth with a time of 23.47 seconds while Nitya Gandhe finished seventh with a time of 23.90 seconds. Yogi won the gold medal in the women’s 100 meter hurdles earlier this week. In the men’s 800 meter race, Krishna Kumar and Anu Kumar finished seventh and eighth respectively.
