Rupal, Subha, Jisna and Rajitha took India to the 400m relay gold.
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A few of the nation’s greatest medal hopes duly delivered on the massive stage as India added six medals to its tally together with three gold on day three of the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, on Thursday.
Jyothi Yarraji, battling accidents, a change in working approach and an detached yr to date produced her greatest efficiency of the season to efficiently defend her title within the 100m hurdles with a brand new championship report of 12.96 seconds, though it was slower than the 12.73s she had focused for computerized World Championships qualification. This was additionally her first sub-13 run of the season, ending forward of Asian Video games bronze medallist Yumi Tanaka of Japan and China’s Wu Yanni.
Jyothi produced her greatest efficiency of the season.
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It was a productive outing for India and redemption time for the athletes on a day that noticed the night session delayed by greater than two hours resulting from torrential rains and thunderstorms for the second day working.
The circumstances, nevertheless, did little to halt India’s medal cost with Avinash Sable bettering on his bronze from the 2023 version to win the 3000m steeplechase and the Indian ladies’s 4x400m relay crew scorching the observe for the nation’s fifth gold within the competitors.
Sable ended his lengthy watch for a gold in 300m steeplechase.
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Sable, in his third worldwide outing this yr after the Diamond Leagues, clocked 8:20.92 for a season’s greatest to complete greater than three seconds forward of Japan’s Yutaro Niinae, who had led for a big a part of the race until the ultimate lap.
Sable additionally turned the third Indian to win a number of medals within the occasion and the primary gold in 36 years after Deena Ram in 1989.
The quartet of Rupal, Subha Venkatesan, Jisna Mathew and Kunja Rajitha noticed the Indian ladies come from behind to outrun Sri Lanka and Vietnam for gold in 3:34.18 with Subha enjoying the proper anchor for the second day working. The 25-year previous, third on the last bend, took off with highly effective strides on the ultimate straight so as to add to her and India’s bronze from the 2023 version.
The boys’s 4x400m relay crew, nevertheless, needed to accept silver in 3:03.67 after a sluggish begin from Jay Kumar and whereas Dharamveer Choudhary and T.S. Manu tried to extend the tempo, it took great effort from T.Ok. Vishal on the ultimate lap to push China to 3rd spot. On the sector, Ancy Sojan and Shaili Singh accomplished a 2-3 within the lengthy leap with a better of 6.33m and 6.30m respectively, behind Iran’s Mobini Arani Rehaneh (6.40m).
Earlier within the day, Sanjivani Jadhav clocked a season’s better of 33:08.17 to complete fifth within the rescheduled 10,000m whereas Seema was positioned sixth in 33:08.23. Agasara Nandini was main in heptathlon with 3610 factors in 4 occasions on the finish of the opening day.
Samardeep Singh Gill, nevertheless, may solely handle a greatest throw of 19.25m to complete sixth in shot put —Tajinderpal Singh Toor was excluded from the squad resulting from poor type — and Sarvesh Kushare positioned fifth in excessive leap with a greatest of two.19m. Seema completed fourth in discus throw with 56.15m.
Printed – Might 29, 2025 10:35 pm IST
