Harshit Kumar gained the boys’s hammer throw gold whereas Laxita Vinod Sandilea (girls’s 800m) and the 4x400m combined relay staff claimed silver medals on the twenty first Asian under-20 athletics championships in Dubai on Friday.
Harshit threw a distance of 66.70m whereas his teammate Prateek (65.97) took the bronze. The Indian staff, comprising P. Abiram, Kanista Teena, Navpreet Singh and Sandramol Sabu, clocked 3:24.86 for the combined relay silver within the 4x400m race. China gained the gold.
Laxita bettered her private greatest by greater than a second, clocking 2:07.10s for the silver. Tanvi Malik, the opposite Indian within the closing, was sixth (2:13.42).
In the meantime, Karnataka’s Shreeya Rajesh claimed bronze within the girls’s 400m hurdles in 59.20s whereas her teammate Jeyavindhiya Jegadish completed sixth (1:02.06s).
After an eventful Thursday, the championship’s second day when India gained 4 golds, Friday was a little bit of a disappointment with Sachin ending fourth within the males’s 10,000m race stroll (45:50.56s) whereas his teammate Himanshu was disqualified. Within the girls’s hammer throw, the Indian duo of Nadini and Anushka completed fifth (56.99m) and sixth (55.81m) respectively.
The intense spots got here from the boys’s 4x100m relay which completed second in its warmth (40.43s) and entered the ultimate. Additionally making the ultimate have been Sabita Toppo (14.10s) and Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland (13.72s) within the girls’s 100m hurdles.