Bangkok [Thailand], July 12 (ANI): India’s long-distance runner Abhishek Pal received bronze within the males’s 10,000-meter occasion on Wednesday on the Asian Athletics Championships 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. This is Abhishek’s maiden medal at a significant competitors.
Abhishek Pal opened India’s gold tally within the Bangkok meet by ending his race in 29:33.26 whereas competing on the Suphachalasai National Stadium, as per Olympics.com.
Japan’s Ren Tazawa took first place within the 10,000-meter occasion, with a file of 29:18.44. Shadrack Kimutai Koech of Kazakhstan received silver, clocking a time of 29:31.63. Gulveer Singh of India got here in fifth place general among the many 16 rivals with a time of 29:53.69.
Abhishek’s private greatest is 28:54.98 clocked in Gujarat final 12 months. India’s nationwide file of 28:02.89 in males’s 10,000m belongs to the Beijing 2008 Olympian Surendra Singh set 15 years in the past.
Annu Rani, an Indian ladies’s javelin thrower who positioned fourth general with a greatest effort of 59.10 metres however received silver at the latest competitors in Doha in 2019 with a mark of 60.22, misplaced out on a bronze. Annu Rani, who established the nationwide mark for India at 63.82 metres final 12 months, failed to leap 60 metres this season.
Marina Saito of Japan logged a distance of 61.67m for the gold medal forward of reigning Olympic champion Liu Shiying of China, who wasn’t far behind with 61.51m. Sri Lanka’s Dilhani Lekamge clinched the bronze medal along with her private better of 60.93m.
In males’s 400m, India’s Muhammed Ajmal and Rajesh Ramesh made the lower for the eight-man last after ending fourth and seventh, respectively, within the semi-finals. Muhammed Ajmal clocked his season-best 45.76 whereas Rajesh Ramesh crossed the end line in 45.91. Lili Das got here seventh within the ladies’s 1500m last with a timing of 4:27.61.
Tejaswin Shankar, in the meantime, is at present main the boys’s decathlon occasion with 4,124 factors from 5 occasions. Tejaswin Shankar holds the nationwide file within the males’s excessive leap and likewise received a bronze medal on the Commonwealth Games in his pet occasion. Tejaswin Shankar began competing within the decathlon final 12 months. The remaining 5 occasions within the males’s decathlon and the boys’s 400m last shall be held on Thursday. (ANI)