India gained three medals on the ultimate day of the World College Video games on Sunday because the contingent closed their marketing campaign with a complete of 12 medals at twentieth place in Rhine Ruhr. India gained two gold medals, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals.
This can be a poor efficiency in comparison with the earlier version in Chengdu, China when India completed seventh within the medal tally with 26 medals in complete together with 11 gold, 5 silver, and 10 bronze medals.
Steeplechaser Ankita Dhyani gained the silver medal within the 3000m whereas the boys’s 4x100m relay quartet bagged a bronze medal. Together with them, the trio of Munita Prajapati, Mansi Negi, and Sejal Singh completed third to win the bronze medal within the girls’s 20km staff racewalk.
On a day when a number of Indian athletes had been in rivalry in observe occasions, however may bag solely two medals, 23-year-old Ankita, a second-year social sciences scholar, shaved almost seven seconds from her private greatest time of 9:39.00 seconds to complete just a few milliseconds behind Finland’s Ilona Maaria Mononen, who timed 9:31.86.
Adia Budde of Germany took the bronze, clocking 9:33.34 seconds.
On Friday, Ankita had topped Warmth 1 by clocking 9:54.79 seconds and secured her place within the closing. It was a large 22-second enchancment, which propelled Ankita to second place within the aggressive race.
Ankita remained within the top-five by way of a lot of the race and got here up with a wide ranging dash within the closing 300 metres to virtually meet up with the German earlier than lacking the gold by simply 0.13 seconds.
The lads’s 4x100m relay staff, comprising Lalu Prasad Bhoi, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar and Mrutyam Jayaram, clocked 38.89 seconds to take the bronze. South Korea took the gold in 38.50 seconds, whereas South Africa (38.80) bagged the silver.
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The Indian girls’s 4x400m relay staff got here up with a season’s greatest time of three:35.08 seconds, however it was not ok for a medal, because the quartet of Anakha Bijukumar, Devyaniba Zala, Rashdeep Kaur and Rupal completed fifth, clocking 3:35.08 seconds.The German staff, regardless of a poor response time, gained the gold with a time of three:29.68 seconds.
The Indian males’s 4x400m relay quartet of Vishal Kayalvizhi, Aswin Lakshmanan, Jerome Jayaseelan Panimaya and Balakrishna completed fifth, clocking 3:06.5.seconds.Poland gained the gold with a time of three:03.64.
Indian medallists at World College Video games 2025
Gold medals: Parneet Kaur-Kushal Dalal (Combined staff compound archery), Sahil Jadhav (Males’s compound archery)
Silver medals: Parneet Kaur (Ladies’s compound archery), Kushal Dalal, Sahil Jadhav, Hritik Sharma (Males’s staff compound archery), Praveen Chithravel (Males’s triple leap), Seema (Ladies’s 5000m), Ankit Dhyani (Ladies’s 3000m steeplechase)
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Bronze medals: Badminton Combined Workforce, Vaishnavi Adkar (Ladies’s singles tennis), Parneet Kaur, Avneet Kaur, Madhura Dhamangaonkar (Ladies’s compound staff archery), Sejal Singh, Munita Prajapati, Mansi Negi (Ladies’s 20km racewalk staff), Lalu Prasad Bhoi, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar, Mrutyam Jayaram (Males’s 4x100m relay)