D.P. Manu who gained the javelin throw silver on the Asian Championships in Bangkok on Sunday, July 16, 2023.
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India sorely missed nationwide record-holder Muhammed Anas because it picked up a silver within the males’s 4x400m relay on the 25th Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok on Sunday.
And there was massive disappointment within the girls’s mile relay the place India, the champion within the final 5 editions of the Asian Games, might handle only a bronze. Vietnam and Sri Lanka grabbed the brighter medals forward of India.
After selecting golds the final three days, there was a silver bathe — eight of them — on the championships’ final day. And India completed third within the medals’ desk with six gold, 12 silver and 9 bronze. Japan and China took the primary two spots.
The most stunning efficiency got here from Abha Khatau, who equalled Manpreet Kaur’s nationwide document of 18.06m whereas taking the ladies shot put silver. The 28-year-old, who might handle simply 15.98, 16.57 and 16.39 in her final three competitions, improved her private finest by 89cms.
Jyothi Yarraji and Parul Chaudhary, who had gained a gold every earlier, received a silver within the girls’s 200m and 5000m respectively. Jyothi, the primary Indian to win the 100m hurdles gold on the Asians, produced a private finest within the 200m on Sunday.
“I hope to improve and go below 23s soon,” mentioned Jyothi.
Meanwhile javelin thrower D.P. Manu gabbed a silver with a last-round effort of 81.01m.
India was within the lead in every of the primary three legs within the males’s 4x400m relay however let the benefit slip within the final leg and completed with the silver. And Sri Lanka, which final gained the gold in 2003, was again as champion.
The outcomes (medallists and Indian performances): Men: 200m: 1. Towa Uzawa (Jpn) 20.23s, 2. Yang Chun Han (Tpe) 20.48, 3. Koki Ueyama (Jpn) 20.53.
800m: 1. Abubaker Haydar Abdalla (Qat) 1:45.53s, 2. Krishan Kumar (Ind) 1:45.88, 3. Ebrahim Alzofairi (Kuw) 1:46.11; 7. Muhammed Afsal (Ind) 1:48.77.
5000m: 1. Hyuga Endo (Jpn) 13:34.94s, 2. Kazuya Shiojiri (Jpn) 13:43.92, 3. Gulveer Singh (Ind) 13:48.33. 14. Abhishek Pal (Ind) 15:00.03.
Pole vault: 1. Ernest John (Phi) 5.91m CR, OR 5.71, personal, 2019; 2. Hussain Asim (KSA) 5.56, 3. Huang Bokai (Chn) 5.51.
Javelin throw: 1. Roderik Genki Dean (Jpn) 83.15m, 2. D.P. Manu (Ind) 81.01, 3. Muhammed Yasir (Pak) 79.93.
20km stroll: 1. Yutaro Murayama (Jpn) 1:24.41s, 2. Wang Kaihua (Chn) 1:25.30, 3. Vikash Singh (Ind) 1:29.33; Akshdeep Singh (Ind) disqualified.
4x400m relay: 1. Sri Lanka 3:01.56s, 2. India (Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Ajmal, Mijo Chacko, Rajesh Ramesh) 3:01.80, 3. Qatar 3:04.26.
Women: 200m: 1. Veronica Shanti Pereira (Sgp) 22.70s, 2. Jyothi Yarraji (Ind) 23.13, 3. Li Yuting (Chn) 23.25.
800m: 1. Dissanayaka Tharushi Dilsara (Sri) 2:00.66s, 2. Chanda (Ind) 2:01.58, 3. Artigala Gayanthika Thushari (Sri) 2:03.25.
5000m: 1. Yuma Yamamoto (Jpn) 15:51.16s, 2. Parul Chaudhary (Ind) 15:52.35, 3. Ankita (Ind) 16:03.33.
4x400m relay: 1. Vietnam (3:32.36s), 2. Sri Lanka (3:33.27), 3. India (Rezoana Mallick Heena, Aishwarya Mishra, Jyothika Sri Dandi, Subha Venkatesan) 3:33.73.
20km stroll: 1. Yang Liujing (Chn) 1:32.38s, 2. Priyanka (Ind) 1:34.24, 3. Yukiko Umeno (Jpn) 1:36.18; 5. Bhawna Jat (Ind) 1:38.27.
Shot put: 1. Song Jiayuan (Chn) 18.88m, 2. Abha Khatua (Ind) 18.06 equalled nationwide document; 3. Manpreet Kaur (Ind) 17.00.