The Indian combined relay team which gained the 4x400m gold on the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok on Saturday.
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With their sudden and gorgeous timings, doping points and mysterious accidents, the quartermilers might usually be underneath scrutiny at dwelling. But for a couple of minutes on Saturday night in Bangkok, the 4x400m combined relay team brushed away all the troubles and gained the gold with a meet record on the 25th Asian Athletics Championships.
The Indian team, comprising Rajesh Ramesh, Aishwarya Mishra, Amoj Jacob and Subha Venkatesan, had to stave off a powerful problem from Japan within the final two legs earlier than successful the gold in 3:14.70s which was additionally a brand new nationwide record.
“Before the race, we were all hyped up, of course we were tense but we knew we could get the gold,” stated Amoj.
“Now, we will be focusing on the World Championships.”
India additionally gained three silver medals by means of lengthy jumper M. Sreeshankar, excessive jumper Sarvesh Khusare and heptathlete Swapna Barman on the championships’ penultimate day and T. Santhosh Kumar took a bronze within the males’s 400m hurdles.
Swapna Barman who battled a again damage and gained the heptathlon silver. Photo: Spl arr
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The lengthy soar competitors was very shut. Sreeshankar, No. 2 within the World listing this 12 months with his 8.41m, had an exquisite collection with 5 jumps over 8.10m and was within the lead until the midway stage. But Taipei’s Lin Yu-Tang shocked the sphere and grabbed the lead and later the gold with an enormous 8.40m leap within the fourth spherical to pip Sreeshankar who had a giant 8.37m effort within the final spherical. That additionally noticed the 24-year-old Indian qualify for subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics.
Swapna Barman has been battling a again damage for a while. And final 12 months, the Asian Games champion even introduced that she was quitting the game. But as a substitute of giving up fully, Swapna made her coaching load lighter and was rewarded with a silver within the heptathlon.
“I’ve just been doing one training session every day for the last two months. The Asian Games are my target…will decide everything after that,” stated the 26-year-old.
The outcomes (medalists and Indian performances): Men: 400m hurdles: 1. Bassem Mohammed (Qat) 48.64s, 2. Yusaku Kodama (Jpn) 48.96, 3. T. Santhosh Kumar (Ind) 49.09, Yashas Palaksha (ind) DNS.
Long soar: 1. Lin Yu Tang (Tpe) 8.40m MR, OR Hussain Taber al-Sabee, 8.33, 2000, 2. M. Sreeshankar (Ind) 8.37 BMR, 3. Zhang Mingkun (Chn) 8.08.
High soar: 1. Woo Sanghyeok (Kor) 2.28m, 2. Sarvesh Anil Khushare (Ind) 2.26, 3. Tawan Kaeodam (Tha) 2.26. 7. Tejaswin Shankar (Ind) 2.10.
Discus throw: 1. Abudaini Tuergong (Chn) 61.19m, 2. Eissa Zankawi (Kuw) 60.23, 3. Muhammed Irfan (Mas) 59.63.
Women: 400m hurdles: 1. Robyn Lauren Brown (Phi) 57.50s, 2. Eri Utsunomiya (Jpn) 57.73, 3. Ami Yamamoto (Jpn) 57.80.
Heptathlon: 1. Ekaterina Voronina (Uzb) 6098 pts, 2. Swapna Barman (Ind) 5840, 3. Yuki Yamasaki (Jpn) 5696.
Mixed 4x400m relay: 1. India (Rajesh Ramesh, Aishwarya Mishra, Amoj Jacob, Subha Venkatesan) 3:14.70s, 2. Sri Lanka (3:15.41), 3. Japan (3:15.71).