Impressive performance from India, who won 3 of 10 gold medals on Thursday
Release Date – Thursday, July 23 at 07:30pm
Bangkok: India clinched three golds on day two of the Asian Athletics Championships, with women’s 100m hurdler Jyothi Yarraji claiming her first title at a major international event and Ajay Kumar Saroji Saroj performed well here on Thursday, winning the men’s 1500m hurdles.
Commonwealth Games silver medalist Abdullah Abubaker clinched the men’s triple jump to give India their third gold of the day.
India put in an impressive performance, winning three of 10 gold medals on Thursday.
Aishwarya Mishra (53.07s) was the other Indian to medal on the day, taking bronze in the women’s 400m final.
Yaraj, 23, won the 100m hurdles final with a time of 13.09 seconds on the rain-soaked track at Supacalasai, ahead of two Japanese players, Asuka Terada (13.13 seconds) and Masumi Aoki (13.26 seconds). ), which won the gold medal for India. stadium.
Yalaji’s national record is 12.82 seconds. She won gold at the National Interstate Championships last month with a time of 12.92 seconds, but the slippery track was not ideal for a fast run as heavy rain hit the stadium.
In the men’s 1,500m, the 26-year-old Saroy excelled in the final corner and overtook two opponents to win the gold medal. His time of 3:41.51 was two and a half seconds shy of his personal best of 3:39.19 set at an event in the United States last month.
It was Saroy’s third medal in the sprint and his second gold, having trained for the Asian Athletics Championships in the United States in May.
Ajay Kumar Saroj won a gold medal at the 2017 Bhubaneswar Olympics and a silver medal at the 2019 Doha Olympics.
For Aboobacker, he took the gold with a season-best 16.92m, ahead of Japan’s Ikebata (16.73m) and South Korea’s Kim Jang-woo (16.59m).
The 27-year-old fouled at the start but finished with 16.92m in his fourth attempt at gold.
Abhishek Pal opened India’s medal account with a bronze medal in the men’s 10,000m on Wednesday.
