Asian Games: Sreeshankar, David enter males’s lengthy bounce remaining; Vithya, Anu qualify for ladies’s 400m hurdles remaining

 Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 27 (ANI): Indian athletes Murali Sreeshankar and David Patturaj Solomon made it to the finals of the lads’s lengthy bounce on the ongoing Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Sunday. 

Sreeshankar completed second in Group B with a finest try of seven.84 m, whereas David Solomon completed at third spot with a finest bounce of seven.62 m in Group A. 

Also, Indian athletes delivered some good news from the ladies’s 400 m hurdles heats, with each Vithya Ramraj and Anu Raghavan making it to the finals of the occasion. They each completed on the second spot of their respective heats. While Vithya clocked a season-best of 55.73, Anu delivered her private better of 55.84 m. 

In Kurash, India made a number of fast exits. India’s Vishal bowed out in males’s +90 kg quarterfinals with a 0-5 loss to Thailand’s Kunathip Yea-On. Sangita Balhara misplaced 10-0 to Charmea Quelino of the Philippines in her spherical of 32 fixture. In the spherical of 16,  Bharti misplaced 3-0 to Iran’s Tahereh Azarpeivand, and Yash Kumar misplaced 10-0 to Tajikistan’s Shakarmamad Mirmamadov.

Tejaswin Shankar dropped from first place to 3rd following the conclusion of the discus throw occasion within the decathlon on Sunday. 

Prior to the discus throw occasion, Tejaswin was on the high of the desk within the decathlon, having delivered a third-place end within the 110m hurdles warmth, with a time of 14.33 seconds for 932 factors. He was within the lead with 5,270 factors and in line for gold. 

But within the discus throw, he completed third together with his finest throw of 36.77 m, 4 metres in need of his finest, as per ESPN. With 5,869 factors, he has dropped down to 3rd spot, with China and Japan occupying the highest two spots. 

The remaining two occasions of the decathlon, the pole vault and javelin throw, usually are not precisely Tejaswin’s strengths. 

India’s Manju Rani had a dissappointing outing within the ladies’s marathon race stroll, ending sixth with a time of three:40:17, whereas Priyanka Goswami was disqualified after the 9 km mark. (ANI)