Animesh Kujur
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A private finest and a silver medal in his worldwide debut was not sufficient to fulfill Sachin Yadav.
The 25-year-old completed second behind Arshad Nadeem on the ultimate day on the Asian Athletics Championships however insisted his goal stays qualifying for the World Championships.
“There have been some errors made and I couldn’t prepare as a lot as I wished due to ankle and shoulder accidents. I’m not very happy however am joyful to return with a medal. I’ll now return, work exhausting and attempt to get higher throws within the subsequent competitions,” Sachin mentioned in an interplay from Gumi, South Korea.
“My physique was a bit proper to start with, I used to be unable to really feel the rhythm and get my actions easy. I even took assist from Yashveer Singh in between to loosen up my muscle tissue a bit and it felt higher within the final two throws,” he admitted.
Animesh Kujur, who additionally set a brand new nationwide report of 20.32s within the 200m, breaking his personal earlier mark set final month, too tried to take motivation from his efficiency however wasn’t too joyful.
“I knew it will be exhausting right here as a result of there have been sooner athletes competing and I used to be assured I might higher my time if I might stick with them.
“I all the time thought my begin shouldn’t be good however I didn’t t let that have an effect on me negatively. On the curve, I felt I used to be in a great place and tried to take care of that until the end. However I wasn’t very joyful through the medal ceremony as a result of getting the gold and having the nationwide anthem performed is a unique feeling medal ceremony,” he shrugged.
Printed – Might 31, 2025 08:53 pm IST
