Bangkok [Thailand], July 15 (ANI): Indian athlete Murali Sreeshankar claimed the silver medal on the Asian Athletics Championships on Saturday. With a leap of 8.37m within the males’s lengthy bounce, he additionally crossed the qualification mark for the Paris Olympics 2023. Meanwhile, Sarvesh additionally bagged a silver medal with a excessive bounce of two.26m whereas Santhosh Kumar gained bronze in males’s 400m hurdles. In the heptathlon, Swapna Barman gained a silver medal scoring 5840 factors.
Whereas, the Indian workforce clinched gold within the blended 4x400m relay.
On Friday, Parul Chaudhary gained a gold medal, claiming the highest place within the ladies’s 3000m steeplechase occasion.
Indian athlete Tajinderpal Singh Toor clinched fourth gold for India in males’s shot put with a finest throw of 20.23m on the Asian Athletics Championships on Friday.
Tajinderpal defended his Asian title earlier than getting injured throughout his 20.23m throw.
On Thursday, Jyothi Yarraji opened India’s gold medal tally within the Asian Athletics Championships by successful the ladies’s 100m hurdles race.
Yarraji clocked 13.09 seconds to clinch gold within the closing race forward of two Japanese runners Terada Asuka (13.13s) and Aoki Masumi (13.26s) on the Supachalasai Stadium.
In the boys’s 1500m closing, one other shocking gold medal awaited. With a time of three:41.51, Ajay Kumar Saroj gained gold forward of extra illustrious runners from Qatar, China, Japan, and even India’s personal Jinson Johnson.
With a 16.92m bounce within the Men’s Triple Jump, Abdulla Aboobacker earned India’s third gold medal of the day. Aboobacker recorded a bounce of 16.92m.
Meanwhile, by clocking 53.07 secs, Aishwarya Mishra bagged the bronze medal in ladies’s 400m.
The Asian Athletics Championships 2023 is underway on the Suphachalasai National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. The five-day occasion began on July 12 and can conclude on July 16. (ANI)