Asian Athletics Championships: Blended 4×400 relay retains gold

Tejaswin Shankar bagged a silver medal within the decathlon on the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea.
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Reigning champion India efficiently defended its title within the 4x400m combined relay for the nation’s second gold on the Asian Athletics Championships on Day Two of the competitors in Gumi, South Korea, on Wednesday.

The quartet of T. Santhosh Kumar, Rupal, T. Okay. Vishal and V. Subha clocked 3:18.12 to fend off stiff problem from China and Sri Lanka to take the highest spot. With two of the 4 runners – Rupal and Vishal – having already executed a lap earlier within the day, it was a problem to take care of kind however the Indians managed to take action, though the time was slower than the World Championships {qualifications}.

Whereas Santhosh gave India a wholesome begin and Rupal stayed comfortably forward, Vishal needed to battle laborious to maintain the Chinese language at bay earlier than racing forward within the last 50m. Subha, the lone survivor from the 2023 version, had no issue in ending off the anchor leg with a cushty margin on a rain and thunderstorm affected day that noticed the ladies’s 10,000 stopped halfway and postponed for tomorrow and the boys’s triple soar struggling in performances following a break after the primary three jumps. Praveen Chitravel’s 2nd soar of 16.90m was sufficient to earn him a silver whereas Abdulla Aboobacker’s third soar of 16.72 positioned him 4th.

Tejaswin Shankar went one higher on his 2023 bronze with a silver within the decathlon, ending with 7618 factors, simply 16 adrift of China’s Fei Ziang to change into the one Indian to win decathlon medals in consecutive editions of the competitors. Tejaswin, who was third after 9 occasions, needed to win the 1500m to go prime however managed a third-place end in 4:37.99 for 693 factors.

Earlier within the day, Rupal clocked 52.68s to take silver within the particular person 400m whereas Vithya Ramraj completed fifth in 53.00s. Vishal, in the meantime, completed fourth, falling agonisingly quick by 0.02 seconds from getting on the rostrum however going underneath 46 seconds for a Private Better of 45.57s. That is now the quickest time by an Indian quartermiler this season and comes only a day after he clocked 46.05s.

Additionally ending second was Pooja within the 1500m, sprinting previous her opponents to go from fifth to 2nd within the last 100 metres to clock 4:10.83. Lili Das completed 4th. Yoonus Shah took bronze for his first worldwide medal within the 1500m in 3:43.03, main the race for a serious half earlier than being elbowed out of the top-two on the house stretch.