Harmilan Bains and Avinash Sable won a silver medal each in women’s 800m and men’s 5000m respectively
Hangzhou (China) : The Indian quartet of Anas Muhammed Yahiya, Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi and Rajesh Ramesh won gold for India in the men’s 4x400m relay with a timing of 3:01.58, a PTI report in The Tribbune, Chandigarh, says. PTI
The women’s quartet of Vithya Ramraj, Aishwarya Mishra, Prachi and Subha Venkatesan bbagged a silver in women’s 4x400m relay.
The Indian women’s relay team came up with an effort of 3:27.85 to finish second, while Bahrain won top spot with a Games record effort of 3:27:65 position, and Sri Lanka won the bronze with a timing of 3:30:88.
It was third silver of the day for India in athletics.
Harmilan Bains and Avinash Sable won a silver medal each in women’s 800m and men’s 5000m respectively.
While Harmilan clocked an impressive timing of 2:03.75 to bag the silver, Sable produced an effort of 13:21.09.
Earlier, Indian race walkers Manju Rani and Ram Baboo won the bronze medal in the inaugural 35km mixed team event.
In men’s high jump, Anil Kushare season best jump of 2.26m was not enough as he missed a medal, finising at the fourth spot. He needed to clear the 2.29m mark to stay in the running for a medal. Jesse Sandesh produced a jump of 2.19m to finish 9th.
India’s Sheena Varkey Nellickal finishes sixth in the Women’s Triple Jump final with a jump of 13.34m.
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