File image of Vithya Ramraj in motion.
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The Indian contingent received as many as six gold medals, together with double podium finishes in ladies’s 800m remaining and lengthy leap competitors, on the second and remaining day of Taiwan Open worldwide athletics championship right here on Sunday.
Three-time nationwide champion Vithya Ramraj, Rohit Yadav, Pooja, Krishan Kumar and Annu Rani received the gold medal of their respective occasions in a formidable outing by the Indian contingent.
Additionally successful gold was the crew of Santosh T, Vishal TK, Dharamveer Chaudhary, and Manu TS, the quartet ending on prime of the rostrum within the males’s 4x400m occasion with a championship report of three:05.58s to log off the nation’s profitable marketing campaign on a optimistic notice.
Yashas Palaksha rallied to win silver within the males’s 400m hurdles with a private greatest timing of 42.22s, the outcome giving an enormous enhance to his confidence after lacking out on the 2025 Asian Championships.
Vithya clocked 56.53s to strike gold within the ladies’s 400m hurdles occasion, her third greatest time of the yr serving to the athlete to achieve some helpful rating factors for the upcoming World Championships.
The athlete from Tamil Nadu competes in 400 metres hurdles, 400 metres and 4×400 metres relay.
Earlier than this, she had clocked 56.04s within the Federation Cup remaining and 56.46s within the Asian Championship remaining.
Rohit couldn’t breach the 75m mark within the males’s javelin throw competitors however a greatest throw of 74.42m was sufficient for him to assert gold within the occasion.
Taipei’s Huang Shih-Feng received silver with a throw of 74.04m, whereas his compatriot Cheng Chao-Tsun was third with an effort of 73.95m.
Pooja received the ladies’s 800m remaining with a championship report time of two:02.79s to edge previous compatriot Twinkle Chaudhary, who clocked 2:06.96s to clinch silver.
Krishan Kumar then got here again from behind to win the highest prize within the males’s 800m remaining with a time of 1:48.46s, which can also be a brand new championship report.
Within the ladies’s javelin remaining later within the day, Annu Rani struck gold after she threw the spear at a distance of 56.82m.
The Indian couldn’t enhance on her season’s greatest efficiency however the sub-57 metre throw was sufficient for her to complete forward of silver winner Hatarabage Lekamalage (56.82m) of Sri Lanka and Taipei’s Pin-Hsun Chu (53.03m).
Within the ladies’s lengthy leap occasion, India’s Shaili Singh (6.41m) and Ancy Sojan (6.39m) then received the silver and bronze medals respectively, ending behind Australia’s Delta Amidzovski (6.49m), who received the gold medal.
Printed – June 09, 2025 03:03 am IST
