Ranvir Kumar Singh and junior Nationwide record-holder Ekta Pradeep Dey received the boys’s and ladies’s 3000m steeple chase gold on the Asian under-20 athletics championships in Dubai on Thursday.
Ranvir clocked 9:22.67s for the boys’s title, whereas Ekta performed a affected person ready recreation and received the ladies’s gold in 10:31.95s. One other gold got here from Anurag Singh Kaler within the males’s shot put (19.23m) with defending champion Siddarth Choudhary (19.02) taking the bronze.
In the meantime, Vinod Singh (males’s 5000m, 14:09.44s) and Amanat Kamboj (ladies’s discus, 50.45m) received silver medals. Nikita Kumari, the junior Federation Cup ladies’s discus throw champion with 50.17m in Lucknow final month, was fourth with 46.84m.
There have been two bronze medals too, from Aman Chaudhary within the males’s 400m (47.53s) and from junior Nationwide document holder Aarti within the ladies’s 10,000m race stroll. Aarti achieved the qualification normal for the under-20 Worlds along with her time of 47:45.33s.
There was some disappointment within the ladies’s 400m, with Anushka Kumbhar (56.52s) and junior Federation Cup champion Sai Sangeetha Dodla (57.26s) ending fifth and seventh respectively. Each had clocked a lot quicker timings in Lucknow final month.