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India win 3 medals on last day, finish 3rd at Asian Athletics
Long distance runner Kavita Raut and women`s 4x400m relay team won a silver each while men`s 4x400m relay quartet bagged a bronze on the final day as India ended the Asian Athletics Championships at third position.
Guangzhou: Long distance runner
Kavita Raut and women`s 4x400m relay team won a silver each
while men`s 4x400m relay quartet bagged a bronze on the final
day as India ended the Asian Athletics Championships at third
position here today.
India, who sent a 60-strong squad, ended the five-day
competition at third with 12 medals (one gold, 4 silver, 7
bronze). China (18 gold, 19 silver, 10 bronze) and Japan (12
gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze) finished first and second
respectively.
Raut, who had won a bronze in 5000m on the opening day,
ran her personal best of 34:17.21 in the 1000m race. She gave
a tough fight to 2009 Berlin World Championships marathon gold
winner Xue Bai who won the race in 34:11.14.
Raut, who was preferred to last edition medal winner
Preeja Shridharan in both 5000m and 10000m, bettered her
earlier personal best of 34:23.80.
Compatriot Preeti Rao was seventh with an effort of
35:22.65. Another Chinese, Wang Jiali stood third with a
last-gasp dash in 34:22.64.
The Indian women`s quartet of Mandeep Kaur, Sini Jose, K
Chitra Soman and Manjeet Kaur then fetched the country`s
second silver of the day in 3:31.62 behind China (3:31.08).
Japan took the bronze at 3:31.95.
The surprise package were the men`s 4x400m relay quartet
of Harpreet Singh, Bibin Mathew, VB Bineesh and Shaikh Mortaja
who won a bronze, clocking 3:06.83. Japan (3:04.13) and China
(3:06.60) won gold and silver respectively.
The men`s and women`s 4x100m relay teams, however,
flopped. The women`s quartet were disqualified while the men`s
team of NB Gobbaragumpi, Sathya Suresh, Sameer Mon and Abdul
Najeeb Qureshi finished fifth with a time of 39.58.
In women`s high jump, Sahana Kumari was seventh with an
effort of 1.80m.
Surendra Kumar pulled out of the men`s 10,000m race,
which saw compatriot Sunil Kumar finishing sixth with a time
of 29:28.73. Surendra did not take part in 5000m also.
In men`s javelin throw final, Narayan Om finished fourth
by clearing a distance of 75.36m.
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