Animesh Kujur
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A private greatest and a silver medal in his worldwide debut was not sufficient to fulfill Sachin Yadav.
The 25-year-old completed second behind Arshad Nadeem on the ultimate day on the Asian Athletics Championships however insisted his goal stays qualifying for the World Championships.
“There have been some errors made and I couldn’t prepare as a lot as I needed due to ankle and shoulder accidents. I’m not very glad however am joyful to return with a medal. I’ll now return, work laborious and attempt to get higher throws within the subsequent competitions,” Sachin mentioned in an interplay from Gumi, South Korea.
“My physique was a bit proper at first, I used to be unable to really feel the rhythm and get my actions easy. I even took assist from Yashveer Singh in between to calm down my muscle groups somewhat and it felt higher within the final two throws,” he admitted.
Animesh Kujur, who additionally set a brand new nationwide document of 20.32s within the 200m, breaking his personal earlier mark set final month, too tried to take motivation from his efficiency however wasn’t too joyful.
“I knew it might be laborious right here as a result of there have been quicker athletes competing and I used to be assured I may higher my time if I may stick with them.
“I all the time thought my begin just isn’t good however I didn’t t let that have an effect on me negatively. On the curve, I felt I used to be in a great place and tried to keep up that until the end. However I wasn’t very joyful throughout the medal ceremony as a result of getting the gold and having the nationwide anthem performed is a special feeling medal ceremony,” he shrugged.
Printed – Could 31, 2025 08:53 pm IST
