Hiroshima [Japan], April 29 (ANI): Indian athlete Ankita exceeded the requirement to compete within the Asian Games 2022 on the Mikio Oda Memorial Athletics 2023 competitors in Hiroshima, Japan, after putting fifth within the ladies’s 5,000-meter race on Saturday.
Ankita exceeded the Asian Games qualifying mark of 15.49.00 set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) by clocking a private finest time of 15:33.24s, as per Olympics.com.
The Indian athlete diminished her earlier time by practically 22 seconds from 15:55.15s, which she ran on the Indian Grand Prix 1 earlier within the yr.
Abdulla Aboobacker, a silver medalist on the 2022 Commonwealth Games within the males’s triple soar, received among the many different Indian opponents on the Japan competitors with a season-best leap of 16.31 metres.
With a timing of 8.47.71 seconds, Balkishan positioned tenth within the males’s 3,000-meter steeplechase.
In reminiscence of the late Mikio Oda, a fantastic Japanese monitor and subject athlete who received the triple soar gold medal within the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the Mikio Oda Memorial Athletics meet is an annual competitors performed in Japan.
The Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) is in command of organising the competitors, which was first contested in 1986. It is a bronze-level World Athletics competitors. (ANI)