Indians are having an incredible run on the ongoing Asian Athletics Championships 2025, going down in Gumi, South Korea. India gained three gold medals on Friday, bringing its whole to eight gold medals and rising its general haul to 18 medals, which comfortably locations it second within the standings behind China, which leads with 15 gold medals and a complete of 26 medals within the occasion to this point.
India’s middle-distance runner Gulveer Singh has claimed two out of those eight gold medals on this occasion. He completed first within the males’s 10,000m and 5,000m races.
Avinash Sable in males’s 3000m steeplechase, Jyothi Yarraji in ladies’s 100m hurdles, Pooja Singh in ladies’s excessive bounce, and Nandini Agasara in Heptathlon are the opposite Indians who’ve gained gold medals in particular person occasions.
In crew occasions, the quartet of Santosh Kumar, Rupal Chaudhary, Vishal and Subha Venkatesan clinched the gold medal within the combined 4x400m relay race, whereas Rupal and Subha have been additionally a part of the ladies’s crew, which bagged gold within the ladies’s 4x400m race alongside Jisna Mathew and Rajitha.
Rupal must be the breakout star of this Indian contingent in South Korea as he gained the third medal, a silver this time, within the ladies’s 400m race.
After the day ended on Friday, India had grabbed seven silver and three bronze medals along with eight gold medals.
India’s finest end within the medal desk was in 2017 in entrance of the house crowd in Bhubaneswar, the place they completed first with 27 medals that included 9 gold, six silver, and 12 bronze.
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This was additionally India’s finest medal haul at Asian Championships, which India repeated within the 2023 Bangkok version as effectively. One of the best gold medal haul for India got here in 1985 in Jakarta, the place India gained 10 gold medals.
Asian Athletics Championship 2025, Gumi (South Korea) Medal Tally
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Complete |
| 1 | China | 15 | 8 | 3 | 26 |
| 2 | India | 8 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
| 3 | Japan | 4 | 10 | 10 | 24 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Qatar | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Iran | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | South Korea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Thailand | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Chinese language Taipei | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Indian medallists on the Asian Athletics Championship 2025
| Gulveer Singh | Males’s 10000m | Gold |
| Staff India (Santosh Kumar, Rupal, Vishal and Subha Venkatesan) | Blended 4x400m relay | Gold |
| Avinash Sable | Males’s 3000m Steeplechase | Gold |
| Jyothi Yarraji | Girls’s 100m hurdles | Gold |
| Staff India (Jisna Mathew, Rupal Chaudhary, Kunja Rajitha and Subha Venkatesan) | Girls’s 4x400m relay | Gold |
| Gulveer Singh | Males’s 5000m | Gold |
| Pooja Singh | Girls’s excessive bounce | Gold |
| Nandini Agasara | Heptathlon | Gold |
| Rupal Chaudhary | Girls’s 400m | Silver |
| Pooja | Girls’s 1500m | Silver |
| Praveen Chithravel | Males’s triple bounce | Silver |
| Tejaswin Shankar | Decathlon | Silver |
| Staff India (Jay Kumar, Dharmveer Choudhary, Manu TS and Vishal TK) | Males’s 4x400m relay | Silver |
| Ancy Sojan | Girls’s lengthy bounce | Silver |
| Parul Chaudhary | Girls’s 3000m Steeplechase | Silver |
| Servin Sebastian | Males’s 20km race stroll | Bronze |
| Yoonus Shah | Males’s 1500m | Bronze |
| Shaili Singh | Girls’s lengthy bounce | Bronze |
(Each tables up to date after Friday)
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