India wins five athletics medals at Asian Games but remains without gold
India won two silver and three bronze medals in athletics at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, taking its discipline total to 13 without a gold. Ancy Sojan won long-jump silver, while Tejaswin Shankar, Parul Chaudhary and Harita Bhadra took bronze; Sarvesh Kushare also won silver in the high jump.
India added five athletics medals at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Sunday but remained without a gold in the discipline. The haul comprised two silver and three bronze medals, taking India’s athletics total to 13, including six silver and seven bronze. Ancy Sojan won silver in the women’s long jump after China’s Huang Yingying produced a 6.55-metre effort in her fifth attempt.
Ancy had led for much of the contest with a best jump of 6.53m but could not improve on her final attempt. Shaili Singh, who had been in the bronze position before the final round, finished fourth after China’s Tan Mengyi jumped 6.46m. Shaili’s last effort measured 6.42m.
Tejaswin Shankar claimed bronze in the decathlon with 7,934 points. He won the 1,500m, the final event, in 4:33.09. The medal was his second successive Asian Games medal in the event after his silver at the 2022 Games.
Sarvesh Kushare won silver in the men’s high jump. Both he and Chinese Taipei’s Fu Chao-hsuan cleared 2.25m, but Fu did so in fewer attempts. Sarvesh failed at 2.28m and lost the gold on countback.
Parul Chaudhary took bronze in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase with a national record and personal best of 9:08.67. Harita Bhadra won bronze in the women’s 200m on her Asian Games debut in 23.20 seconds. India’s next athletics opportunities include the men’s long jump, 3,000m steeplechase, javelin and 1,500m.
Murali Sreeshankar, Avinash Sable, Rohit Yadav and Gulveer Singh are scheduled to compete.
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