Hangzhou [China], October 4 (ANI): Indian athletes Majnu Rani and Ram Baboo secured a bronze medal within the 35 m blended race stroll on the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou on Wednesday.
Clocking timings of 5:51:14 hours, the Indian duo secured a bronze and continued the nation’s nice run in athletics.
The gold medal went to China (5:16:41 hours) and the silver medal was bagged by Japan (5:22:11 hours).
“BRONZE IN RACEWALK Athletes Ram Baboo and Manju Rani have secured a BRONZE MEDAL in the 35KM Racewalk (mixed team) with a combined timing of 5:51:14. at AsianGames2022! Their journey has been one of sweat and sheer perseverance Let’s cheer out loud for our Racewalk champs Cheer4India JeetegaBharat BharatAtAG22 Hallabol,” SAI Media tweeted.
On Tuesday, athletics hogged the limelight as the entire of India celebrated the historic gold medal victories of Annu Rani and Parul Chaudhary.
Athletics led India’s cost within the second half of the day, Parul gained the nation’s first-ever gold medals in girls’s 5000m on the continental meet, making it two medals on the Asian Games for herself, after grabbing silver within the girls’s 3000m race on Monday. Tejaswin Shankar broke the nationwide document to win the Men’s Decathlon silver medal.
Meanwhile, Mohammed Afsal gained silver within the males’s 800m, dropping out to Essa Kzwani of Saudi Arabia. Praveen Chitharavel, the boys’s triple leap nationwide document holder, completed third in Hangzhou with the most effective leap of 16.68m, whereas Vithya Ramraj earned bronze within the Women’s 400m Hurdles.
The Indian males’s canoe double 1000m crew of Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam took house a bronze medal. It was India’s second canoe medal and the primary in 29 years.
Now India has a complete of 70 medals, 15 gold, 26 silver and 29 bronze. They have tied with their greatest medal tally in an Asian Games occasion, 70 from the 2018 version of the occasion. (ANI)