India’s Parul Chaudhary and Priti secured silver and bronze medals respectively within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase whereas unheralded Ancy Sojan claimed a silver medal within the girls’s lengthy bounce on the Asian Video games right here on Monday.
Parul clocked 9:27.63 seconds, which was greater than 9 seconds behind Bahrain’s Yavi Winfred Mutile, who set an Asian Video games document on the way in which to defending her title. The Bahrain runner took the highest podium end in 9:18.28, a brand new Video games document.
The earlier Video games document stood within the title of country-mate Jebet Ruth (9:31.36 sec) set in the course of the 2014 Asian Video games in Incheon, South Korea.
Although Parul additionally breached the Asian Video games document, it was nowhere near her nationwide document and private better of 9:15.31 clocked on the World Championships in Budapest, which helped her qualify for the Paris Olympics, in August.
Compatriot Priti completed a great 16 seconds behind Parul, clocking a private greatest 9:43.32 seconds to win the bronze in an in depth end with one other Bahrain runner Mekonen Tigest Getent, who timed 9:43.71 seconds to complete fourth.
In girls’s lengthy bounce, Ancy breached her private greatest twice and leaped 6.63 metres to bag the silver behind Shiqi Xiong of China who jumped 6.73 metres to assert the yellow steel. Vietnam’s Nga Yan Yue received the bronze with a greatest effort of 6.50 metres.
Within the third try, Ancy registered her private better of 6.56m which she bettered in her fifth try. The opposite Indian within the fray, Shaili Singh completed a disappointing fifth with an effort of 6.48m.
The athletics area gave India one other medal within the type of a bronze, received by the quartet of Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi, Vithya Ramraj, Rajesh Ramesh and Subha Venkatesan, who clocked 3:14.34s.
The gold was received by Bahrain runners, who timed 3:14.02, whereas the silver was bagged by Sri Lanka who clocked 3:14.25 seconds.
Within the 3000m steeplechase, Yavi started to tug away within the sixth lap of the gruelling race, making Parul seem like an underpowered engine. The Kenyan-born Bahrain runner, who received the 2023 World Athletics Championships gold within the occasion beating country-mate Beatrice Chepkoech, completed no less than 50 metres forward of the 28-year-old Parul.
