Unheralded Abha Khatua equalled the women’s shot put national record on her way to finishing second. While Jyothi Yarraji and Parul Chaudhary clinched their second medals — both silver. As India ended its campaign at the Asian Athletics Championships with 27 medals and a third-place finish
Unheralded Abha Khatua equalled the women’s shot put national record on her way to finishing second, while Jyothi Yarraji and Parul Chaudhary clinched their second medals — both silver — as India ended its campaign at the Asian Athletics Championships with 27 medals and a third-place finish
The 28-year-old Khatua made an improvement of 93cm from her personal best of 17.13m. As she recorded a distance of 18.06m with her fourth throw. She thus finished second behind Song Jiayuan (18.88m) of China. Veteran Manpreet Kaur, whose national record Khatua equalled, won bronze with a first-round throw of 17m.
Parul Chaudhary, who had won gold in the 3000m steeplechase on Friday, clocked 15 minutes, 52.35 seconds to finish second behind Yuma Yamamoto (15:51.16) of Japan in the women’s 5000m final. The 28-year-old holds the 5000m national record of 15:10.35. Ankita won the bronze in 16:03.33 as India secured two medals from the event.
4*100 metre race
Middle distance runner Krishna Kumar came up with his season’s best and personal best effort to win silver in men’s 800m. The SAI Bengaluru camper thus clocked 1:45.88 to finish second.
KM Chanda win the seventh silver on Sunday when she clocked 2:2.58. This is a season-best, to win the women’s 800m.
The men’s 4×400 metre relay team of Amoj Jacob, Muhammad Ajmal, Mijo Kurian and Ramesh Rajesh clocked 3:01.80 seconds to win a silver for India. While the women’s 4x400m relay team of Rezoana, Aishwarya, Jyothika and Subha also won a bronze medal in a time of 3:33.73, coming up with a season’s best performance.