New Delhi, Sept 23: Shakti Singh won India's third silver in the 15th Asian Athletics Championship in men's shot put on the concluding day of the meet in Manila, Philippines today. India also won another bronze in the Women's 4x400 relay. But apart from these two events, it was again a tale of disappointment for the Indian contingent who competed in Manila without their top stars.
Shakti cleared a distance of 19.04m to finish a distant second behind Qatar's Bilal Saad Mubarak who beat the Indian by a big margin touching 19.41m.
Qatar also won the bronze when Khaled Habash al-Suwaidi finished further behind clearing 18.57m, according to information received here.


The women's 4x400 relay team won a bronze behind China and Kazakhstan to take India's collection to three silver and three bronze medals in the four day meet.
The quartet of Pinki Parmanik, Manjeet Kaur, S Geetha and Kalpana Reddy clocked 3:35.34 seconds to finish third. China clocked 3:31.30s and Kazakhstan (3:32.82).

India's medal hopes in the men's 800m were shattered when Asian games silver medallist K M Binu was forced to pull out of the race with fever. The gold in the event went to Adam Abdu Ali of Qatar who won in 1:46.20 seconds.


Bureau Report