The boys’s 4*100 m relay workforce made up for the botched baton trade on the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Could, clocking 38.75s to win the gold medal on the Taiwan Open Athletics on Saturday because the Indian athletes had a profitable day on the competitors, successful six gold medals.
The quartet of Gurindervir Singh, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar, and Amlan Borgohain have been the favourites from the beginning, and so they didn’t disappoint, clocking the second-fastest time of the yr as a workforce. Their finest time is the present nationwide document 38.69s, clocked earlier in April this yr.
On the Asian Athletics final month in Korea, the Indian workforce was disqualified within the heats regardless of clocking the most effective time. Pranav Gurav and Ragul Kumar – two alternate athletes within the relay contingent – fluffed the baton switch within the heats of the match as they exchanged it exterior the takeover zone, resulting in India’s rapid disqualification. In right this moment’s race, the Indian workforce started nicely with Gurindervir giving a stable begin which was continued by Animesh who ran a very good second leg. Within the third leg, Manikanta took the lead and Animesh continued it cross the end line and led India to the gold medal.
Younger sprinter Abinaya Rajarajan starred within the girls’s 4*100m relay race as her gorgeous run within the third leg powered India to a different gold. The quartet of Sudeeksha Vadluri, Sneha SS, Abinaya, and Nithya Gandhe clocked 44.07 within the occasion. On the Asian Athletics, the identical workforce had gained a silver medal with 43.86s.
Jyothi goes sub-13 once more
Hurdler Jyothi Yarraji continued her gold medal-winning kind as she clocked 12.99s in girls’s 100m hurdles to run her second sub-13 race of the yr. After qualifying with a timing of 13.18s within the heats, Jyothi confronted robust competitors from Japanese hurdlers Chisato Kiyoyama and Asuka Terada. Within the last, Chisato and Asuka had an excellent begin as Jyothi trailed them within the first 60m. Nonetheless, a push from Jyothi in the previous few meters noticed her go away each Japanese hurdles behind to win her second gold in 15 days.
Within the males’s 110m hurdles, Tejas Shirse gained the gold medal clocking his season finest timing of 13:52s. Earlier he had clocked 13:62s within the heats to e book his last berth.
Pooja continues to dazzle
The 22-year-old Pooja decimated the sphere within the girls’s 1500m to win the gold medal with a timing of 4:11.63. When Pooja crossed the end line her closest competitor Su Gyon Jon of North Korea was not even within the digicam body. Pooja has been on an increase this yr as she gained two medals on the Asian Athletics final month. She gained a silver within the girls’s 1500m clocking 4:10.83 and clocked a private finest in 800m to win the bronze medal with a timing of two:00.42. She will be able to add yet one more medal to her tally when she participates within the 800m tomorrow.
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Skilled triple jumper Abdulla Aboobacker was the sixth gold medalist for India as he jumped a modest 16.21m. Regardless of crossing the 16m mark only one time, Aboobacker gained the gold as the opposite athletes didn’t cross the 16m mark even as soon as.
The Indians in motion on Sunday are Annu Rani (Javelin Throw), Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan (Lengthy Bounce), Pooja (800m), Rohit Yadav (Javelin Throw), Yashas Palaksha (400m hurdles), and the lads’s 4*400m relay workforce.
KEY INDIAN RESULTS ON SATURDAY:
Males’s
4*100m relay: India 38.75, Chinese language Taipei A 39.11, Chinese language Taipei B 39.75
110m hurdles: Tejas Shirse (India) 13:52, Yuan Kai Hsieh (Chinese language Taipei) 13:72, Chen Kui-ru 13:75
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Triple Bounce: Abdulla Aboobacker (India) 16:21m, Yun Chen Li (Chinese language Taipei) 15.92m, Zheng Jia Zhou (Chinese language Taipei) 15.59m
Girls’s
4*100m relay: India 44.07, Vietnam 44.38, Chinese language Taipei 44.53
100m hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji (India) 12.99, Asuka Terada (Japan) 13.04, Chiasato Kiyoyama (Japan) 13.10
1500m: Pooja (India) 4:11.63, Su Gyon Jon (North Korea) 4:28.03, Hiu Tung Tsang (Hong Kong) 4:34.92
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