Aichi-Nagoya (Japan), September 25 (ANI): Indian athlete Baranica Elangovan created historical past by profitable the bronze medal within the girls’s pole vault on the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Friday, turning into India’s first-ever Asian Games medallist within the occasion, in response to Olympics.com.
Baranica cleared a peak of 4.15 metres to complete joint-third with Kazakhstan’s Polina Ivanova. Both athletes cleared 4.15m and had been tied on makes an attempt, earlier than failing to clear 4.25m.
With each athletes ending degree on their greatest peak and makes an attempt, Baranica and Ivanova shared the bronze medal.
The bronze marks a historic achievement for Indian athletics, with Baranica turning into the nation’s first Asian Games medallist in pole vault throughout each the lads’s and ladies’s occasions.
Baranica Elangovan’s bronze medal takes India’s medal tally to 23 medals, with two gold medals, 9 silver medals and 12 bronze medals.
Earlier within the day, athlete Gulveer produced a robust efficiency, clocking 28:29.38 to comfortably end second within the males’s 10000m occasion and safe India’s silver medal within the occasion.
Manpreet Kaur additionally gained a bronze medal within the girls’s shot put on the continental occasion. She produced her greatest throw of 17.17 metres in her fourth try to safe a spot on the rostrum.
Shooters Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh gained gold within the 10m air pistol combined workforce occasion, whereas Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar secured silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions workforce occasion.
In desk tennis, Manush Shah and Diya Chitale secured bronze in combined doubles after reaching the semi-finals, the place they misplaced to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha.
India’s squash combined doubles pair of Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar additionally assured the nation of a medal after progressing to the semi-finals. Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh superior to the respective singles semi-finals.
India’s males’s and ladies’s kabaddi groups additionally booked their locations within the finals after profitable their respective semi-final matches towards Thailand and Nepal.
In hockey, the Indian girls’s workforce defeated Japan 3-1 of their Pool B encounter.
Elsewhere, swimmer Rishabh Das completed sixth within the males’s 200m backstroke remaining, whereas weightlifter Seram Nirupama Devi completed seventh within the girls’s 61kg class.Boxer Preeti’s Asian Games marketing campaign ended within the spherical of 16 after she misplaced 0-5 to North Korea’s Pang Chol Mi. (ANI)