India capped off Day 10 of the nineteenth Asian Video games with a glut of medals in athletics, with two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.
Parul Chaudhary received gold within the girls’s 5000m race to make it two medals on the Asian Video games for herself, after successful silver within the girls’s 3000m race yesterday. India’s medal rush was capped off by Annu Rani successful gold within the girls’s javelin throw with a season-best throw.
Mohammed Afsal received silver within the 800m closing, shedding out to Essa Kzwani of Saudi Arabia, whereas Tejaswin Shankar broke the nationwide file with a rating of 7666 within the males’s decathlon to win silver. Praveen Chithravel received bronze within the males’s triple soar, with a greatest soar of 16.68m. Earlier, Vithya Ramraj began off India’s medal rush on Day 10 of the Asian Video games with a bronze within the girls’s 400m hurdles closing.
Parul claims thrilling gold in girls’s 5000m
Parul Chaudhary began her 5000m closing with a measured starting staying in the back of the lead pack. Finally, the race got here right down to the highest two – Ririka Hironaka of Japan and Parul trailing behind her. As they rounded the ultimate bend, it appears Ririka had sufficient of a result in win gold, however Parul produced a kick of epic proportions with about 30 metres left, overtaking her opponent with just a few metres to go down her inside, and claiming a last-gasp gold.
Parul completed with a time of 15:14.75, simply 0.59 seconds forward of Ririka, who completed with 15:15.34, whereas Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui of Kazakhstan took third with a season-best time of 15:23.12. Parul’s compatriot, Ankita, additionally completed with a private better of 15:33.03, taking fifth place.
Annu Rani wins gold in girls’s javelin throw
Annu Rani received her first ever gold medal at a significant worldwide occasion, with a season-best throw of 62.92m to win the ladies’s javelin occasion. She final received bronze on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games with a 60m throw, whereas her greatest effort on the Asian Video games was a bronze in 2014.
Nadeesha Hatarabage of Sri Lanka claimed silver with a private greatest effort of 61.57 whereas Lyu Huihui of China 61.29. Rani’s second throw of 61.28m put her in pole place, with the 31-year-old have not throwing previous 60m all of 2023. She fell to second place within the fourth throw, however responded with an outstanding 62.92m effort to go first and finally win the competitors – simply 32cm behind her private better of 63.24m, which is the nationwide file.
Tejaswin Shankar wins males’s decathlon silver
Tejaswin Shankar broke Bharatinder Singh’s nationwide file in males’s decathlon of 7658 factors set on twelfth June 2011, with an total effort of 7666 factors to win silver. Nonetheless, Solar Qihao of China was a good bit forward with 7816 factors to win gold, whereas Yuma Maruyama of Japan received bronze with a rating of 7568.
Tejaswin completed first within the excessive soar, lengthy soar and 400m occasions, whereas third within the discus throw and 4th within the 100m and 1500m pushed him in direction of the tom of the standings. He completed fifth in javelin throw, shot-put and the 100m hurdles – historically his weakest occasions, whereas additionally ending sixth within the pole vault occasion.
Mohammed Afsal wins males’s 800m silver
Together with Krishan Kumar within the lead pack, Mohammed Afsal made a fantastic begin to the race, staying within the lead for a lot of it. He was briefly threatened by Liu Dezhu of China going into the ultimate lap, however appeared to carry him off. Because the athletes rounded the ultimate bend, Essa Kzwani of Saudi Arabia produced an unbeatable burst, going previous the remainder of the pack and demoting Afsal to silver.
Afsal completed second with a time of 1:48.43, simply 0.38 seconds behind Kzwani, whereas Kumar was disqualified by the top, together with Dezhu.
Praveen Chithravel wins males’s triple soar bronze
Praveen Chithravel and Abdulla Aboobacker had been the Indians competing within the discipline, with the latter a CWG medallist from 2022. Chithravel’s first soar was finally his greatest effort – a 16.68m soar aided by a +0.2 wind. Aboobacker tried to raised that in his second soar, leaping 16.62m, simply six centimetres behind Chithravel. That proved to be the duo’s greatest efforts with Aboobacker ending fourth to Chithravel’s third.
Zhu Yaming of China claimed gold with a large soar of 17.13m, whereas compatriot Fang Yaoquin leaped 16.93m to win silver.
Vithya wins girls’s 400m hurdles bronze
Vithya had equalled PT Usha’s nearly 40-year-old file in 400m hurdles, set within the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, yesterday with a time of 55.42 seconds within the heats, and ran simply wanting that mark (55.68 seconds) within the closing to say bronze.
Mujidat Oluwakemi Adekoya of Bahrain claimed gold with a video games file time of 54.45 seconds, whereas China’s Mo Jiadie earned silver with a time of 55.01 seconds, which was additionally higher than the earlier video games file of 55.09 seconds set by Kemi Adekoya within the 2014 Asian Video games.
Vithya was the third-best runner off the blocks, with a response time of 0.188 seconds, though the eventual gold and silver medallists had slower response occasions of 0.196 and 0.197 seconds respectively. The Indian stayed within the hunt proper till the ultimate curve, the place Mo pulled forward of her whereas additionally trailing to Adekoya herself. There was a transparent hole from first to second, second to 3rd on the finish, with Ramraj ending 1.16 seconds forward of Aminat Oluwaseun Jamal of Bahrain in fourth.
Hailing from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, that is Vithya’s second medal at her debut Asian Video games, with the 25-year-old additionally a part of the combined 4x400m relay workforce that received silver yesterday.