New Delhi
Promising center distance runner Laxita Vinod Sandilea and low hurdler Shreeya Rajesh gained silver and bronze medals, respectively, on the penultimate day of the twenty first Asian U20 Athletics Championships being held in Dubai. Based on data reaching right here, India’s general medal tally swelled to 18 medals, together with six gold, seven silver and 5 bronze medals.
After a not so encouraging morning session, Indian athletes raised the bar within the night session to swell the medal tally to 18, together with six gold.
Harshit Kumar claimed gold (66.70m) in males’s hammer throw, and Prateek gained bronze (65.97m). The blended 4x400m relay crew gained silver with a time of three:24.86 seconds.
Indian crew additionally excelled in observe races. Shreeya Rajesh ran a well-judged tempo to sail over the obstacles, however finally settled for a bronze within the girls’s 400m hurdles with a time of 59.20 seconds. Jeyavindhiya Jegadish completed sixth within the 400m hurdles. Her time was 1:02.06 seconds.
Gifted center distance runner Laxita Vinod Sandilea lived as much as her fame however needed to take care of a silver within the girls’s 800m. Her silver-medal successful time was 2:07.10 seconds. Tanvi Malik nonetheless, completed sixth in 800m. She clocked 2:13.42.
The morning session didn’t go on anticipated traces for the Indian crew as Sachin completed fourth within the males’s 10,000m race stroll. His time was 45:50.56. Himanshu, the second Indian race walker was disqualified.
Indian duo of Nadini and Anushka completed fifth (56.99m) and sixth (55.81m) respectively, within the girls’s hammer throw.
Nonetheless, within the girls’s 100m hurdles heats each Sabita Toppo (14.10 seconds) and Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland (13.72 seconds) superior to the medal spherical.
The boys’s 4x100m relay crew additionally superior to the medal spherical. The Indian crew completed second of their warmth with a time of 40.43 seconds.
The night session was extra productive.