Hangzhou [China], September 29 (ANI): India’s athletics marketing campaign on the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou was off to a disappointing begin as athletes Vikash Singh and Sandeep Kumar and Commonwealth Games medalist Priyanka Goswami did not clinch podium positions within the closing of males’s and girls’s 20 km race stroll on Friday.
In the lads’s 20 km race stroll, Vikash completed fifth out of 11 athletes with a timing of 1:27:33 whereas Sandeep was disqualified. The gold and silver medals went to China whereas Japan secured the bronze medal.
In the ladies’s 20 km race stroll occasion, Priyanka earned a fifth-place end with timings of 1:43:07. The gold medal went to China, and so did the silver medal. Once once more, Japan obtained the bronze medal.
World champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, hurdler Jyothi Yarraji and steeplechase racer Avinash Sable are among the many prime Indian athletics names competing in 37 occasions on the Hangzhou meet. Athletics occasion began on September 29 and can go on until October 5. These monitor and discipline occasions are being held on the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium.
Athletics has been the very best self-discipline for India on the Asian Games, giving the nation a complete of 254 medals – 79 gold, 88 silver and 87 bronze. (ANI)