Asian Athletics: India win silver in Women's 4X100 relay, Pooja bags bronze in 800m

India Today

3 days ago

The Indian contingent continued their brilliant run on Day 5 of the Asian Athletics Championship 2025 on Saturday, May 31 at in Gumi, South Korea. After a terrific beginning, India closed out the day with two more medals as Pooja bagged a bronze in the Women's 800m final while the women's 4x100 m relay team secured a silver medal.Pooja finished the race with a personal best of 2:01.89s while China's Wu Hongjiao (2:00:00s) and Japan's Rin Kubo (2:00:42s) won gold and silver, respectively. On the other hand, the Indian women's relay team consisting of Srabani Nanda, Abhinaya Rajarajan, Sneha SS, and Nithya Gandhe finished second with a season-best timing of 43.86 seconds.advertisementThey were left marginally behind the Chinese Quartet, who secured the gold medal position by crossing the finish line within 43.28 seconds. On the other hand, Thailand finished third in 44.26 seconds.
Meanwhile, India's Krishan Kumar (1:48.72) and Anu Kumar (1:58.04) finished seventh and eighth respectively in the men's 800m final. Kuwait's Ebrahim Alzofairi (1:44.59s) bagged gold, while Iran's Ali Amirian (1:44:97s) and Qatar's Abubhaker Haydar H Abdalla (1:45.20 s) won silver and and bronze medals respectively.Earlier, Animesh Kujur began the day on a positive note by winning a bronze in the men's 200m as he shattered the national record. Parul Chaudhary also bagged her second medal in the event as she secured a silver medal in the women's 5000m event. Chaudhary had also won the silver medal in the women's 3000m steeplechase event.advertisementThe medals continued to flow for India on the final day as Vithya Ramraj also won the bronze medal in the women's 400m hurdles. The 26-year-old clocked 56.46 seconds to finish third after China's Mo Jiadie and Bahrain's Mujidat Adekoya.In the men's Javelin Throw final, Sachin Yadav, propelled himself into the silver medal spot with two sensational throws of 83.03m and 85.16m in the final two attempts of the competition. Apart from Sachin, Yashvir Singh, finished 5th with his personal best throw of 82.57m.