New Delhi
The Indian contingent continued to showcase their potential on the twenty first Asian U20 Athletics Championships that concluded Saturday in Dubai by profitable 29 medals, together with seven gold, which was higher than the 19 medals (six gold, seven silver, six bronze) gained on the earlier version held in Yecheon, South Korea in 2023.
On the 2024 version of Asian U20 meet in Dubai, the Indian workforce additionally gained 11 silver and equal variety of bronze medals to complete second in medal standing behind China.
That is for the primary time since 1996 Indian contingent took the second spot in medal standing on the Asian U20 Athletics Championships.
Promising pole vaulter Dev Meena gained nineteenth medal for the Indian workforce, a bronze, within the males’s pole vault occasion that concluded late Friday evening. He scaled a top of 5.10m.
On Saturday Indian workforce began their medal rush via excessive hurdler Unnathi Ayyappa who gained bronze, India twentieth medal, in ladies’s 100m hurdles with a time of 13.65 seconds. Sabita Toppo completed seventh with a time of 14.49 secs.
Laxita Vinod Sandilea gained silver within the ladies’s 1500m. Her time was 4:25.63 seconds. It was her second silver of the competitors. Earlier she had additionally gained silver in 800m.
Gaurav Bhaskar Bhosale sprinted residence to clinch silver within the males’s 3,000m. His time was 8:31.20. Vikas Kumar Bind added bronze to the workforce’s tally with a time of 8:33.00.
Indian athletes continued to excel within the ladies’s 5,000m monitor race. Ekta Dey clinched silver with a time of 16:49.70 seconds, whereas Sunita Devi gained bronze. She clocked 16:52.54 seconds.
Lengthy jumper Md Atta Sajid added bronze to the Indian contingent. His finest bounce was 7.52m
Indian males’s 4x100m relay gained the bronze medal with a nationwide document of 40.01 seconds. The ladies’s 4x100m relay workforce gained bronze however had been later disqualified for baton trade exterior the altering zone on the third leg.
Within the longer relay, the ladies’s 4x400m relay workforce (Anushka Dattatray, Kanista Teena Maria, SAI Sangeetha Dodla, Sandramol Sabu) gained gold with a time of three:41.50. The boys’s 4x400m relay workforce (Abiram Pramod, Navpreet Singh, Nikhil Suhas Dhake, Aman Choudhary) posted a time of three:09.36 to win silver.