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Indian rookie Sachin Yadav narrowly misses Asian Athletics javelin gold to Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem
Young Indian athlete Sachin Yadav gave a tough competition to Pakistan's Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, narrowly missing out on a gold at the Asian Athletics championships javelin throw event. read more India's rising javelin star Sachin Yadav clinched silver at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships, finishing just 1.24m behind Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem. India's Sachin Yadav narrowly missed out on a gold at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Gumi, South Korea, on Saturday, as he came second behind Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem by just 1.24m. Arshad Nadeem won the gold with a throw of 86.40m while India's latest javelin throw sensation, Sachin Yadav, took the second with a personal best effort of 85.16m. Japan's Yuta Sakiyama took the bronze with a personal best throw of 83.75m, while India's Yash Vir Singh finished fifth (82.57m throw). Neeraj Chopra was not a part of the competition. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Arshad Nadeem had won the Paris Olympics 2024 gold medal with a massive throw of 92.97 as he crossed the 90m mark twice during the competition. In Gumi, he wasn't required to touch the 90m mark and his effort of 86.40m is his season best so far. 'It was a good performance, especially since this was his first competition of the season," Nadeem's coach Salman Butt told the Dawn. 'If there had been one day of rest between [yesterday's] heats and finals, he would have had more recovery and a better throw. But this is a good start,' he added. Sachin Yadav gives tough competition to Arshad Nadeem Despite winning the gold, Nadeem faced stiff competition from Indian rookie Sachin Yadav, who won the gold medal at the National Games 2025 with a throw of 84.39m. At 6 feet 5 inches and weighing around 107 kg, the 25-year-old men's javelin throw athlete Sachin is seen as a bright future prospect for India in the javelin throw, which has been made highly popular in India by two-time Olympic medal winner Neeraj. Also Read | Sachin Yadav's heartwarming story of becoming a javelin champion Sachin, however, failed to qualify for the 2025 World Athletics Championships as he missed the qualification mark (85.50m). 🚨 SACHIN YADAV WINS SILVER WITH LIFETIME BEST! 🇮🇳🥈 India's Sachin Yadav unleashed a monster throw of 85.16m to bag Silver at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025! 🔥 His 5th throw also went 83.08m — showing top form! He missed the Worlds qualification mark by just 34cm!… — nnis Sports (@nnis_sports) May 31, 2025 STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD It also needs to be noted that this is Sachin's first international competition.
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7 days ago
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India in 4x400m relay: Women clinch gold, men finish silver in Asian Championships
It rained gold for India at the Asian Athletics Championships on Thursday as the country's fastest woman hurdler Jyothi Yarraji, seasoned steeplechase runner Avinash Sable and the 4x400m women's relay team delivered stupendous performances to finish on top Jyothi and Sable set the tone, the quartet of Jisna Mathew, Rupal Chaudhary, Kunja Rajitha and Subha Venkatesan clinched the gold medal in the women's 4x400m relay event after clocking their season-best time (3:34.18sec) to extend India's dominance on the third competition day of the continental Asian Athletics championships 2025: Gold #5 for India at Gumi in women's 4*400 can always count on Subha in these situations.. She always has something in the tank to take us past the finish done team Kunja, Jisna, Rupal, Subha..???????? Vishank Razdan (@VishankRazdan) May 29, 2025advertisementVietnam took silver with 3:34.77sec, while Sri Lanka settled for the bronze with 3:36.67sec. This was the 10th gold overall for India in the event and first since 2013. Overall, India snared three gold, two silver and a bronze medal on Thursday taking their overall tally to 14 after proceedings were disrupted by a massive are currently placed second in the overall standings behind China, who have 21 medals including 12 men's 4x400m relay team of Jay Kumar, Dharmveer Choudhary, Manu Thekkinalil Saji and Vishal TK also looked to be on course for a gold medal before settling for silver with a timing of 3:03.67sec which was their best performance so (3:03.52sec) won the gold medal, while China (3:03.73sec) ended the race with bronze in the men's 4x400m on his way to victory with a season-best performance, Sable became the first Indian man in 36 years to win a gold medal in steeplechase at the Asian Championships."I was confident of winning gold as I was best in the field," said Sable, who has already qualified for the World Championships in after, Jyothi produced a late burst to clinch her second straight gold medal in this competition with a new championship record of 12.96 seconds. The previous record was 12.99 seconds, achieved by China's Su Yiping in the 2000 edition of the tournament."It was a good day. I am happy to break the 13 second barrier this season," she said after winning the gold clocked 8:20.92sec to claim the top honour, which is also his second Asian medal after a silver in the 2019 edition. It was, however, nowhere close to his national record of 8:09.91sec achieved in last time India won a gold in this event was way back in 1989 when Dina Ram finished on top. Harbel Singh was the first Indian to fetch a men's steeplechase gold at the showpiece back in the 2023 edition, Jyothi won the gold medal with an effort of 13.09. But her personal best timing, which is also the national record, is a way better 12.78 Asian Games silver-medallist, nonetheless joined a select club of five athletes to defend gold in the Asian Championships 100m hurdles, the others being Emi Akimoto of Japan (1979, 1981, 1983), Zhang Yu of China (1991, 1993), Su Yinping of China (2003, 2005) and Sun Yawei of China (2009, 2011).Moments before Jyothi's triumph, Sable lived up to the favourite tag with some ease to consolidate the country's position in the 26th edition of the continental Yutaro Niinae, who clinched the silver with 8:24.41sec, was leading at the start of the final lap but the Indian ace produced a brilliant effort to go past him and claim the top Hangzhou Asian Games gold-medallist continued to stay ahead of the pack with four laps to go but he had two Japanese athletes following him overtook Sable with three laps remaining, but the Indian had the last laugh. Qatar's Zakaria Elahlaami took the bronze after clocking 8: Jyothi and Sable's exploits, the quartet of Jisna, Rupal, Kunja and Subha ensured a hat-trick of gold medals for India on the day. The was Rupal's third medal, having won a mixed team gold and an individual 400m silver in the championship. For Subha, it was her second gold after her podium finish in the mixed relay long jumpers Anci Sojan Edapilly (6.33m) and Shaili Singh (6.30m) fetched a silver and bronze respectively, finishing behind Iran's Reihaneh Mobini Arani, who covered 6.40m. It was a poor show by Shaili, whose personal best is she might have been hampered by the wet top finish awaits India on Friday as Nandini Agasara leads the standings after four events with an accumulated score of the women's 10,000m final, India's Sanjeevani Jadhav clocked a season's best of 33:08.17sec, finishing fifth, followed closely by Seema in sixth at 33: event was dominated by Daisy Jepkemei of Kazakhstan (30:48.44), ahead of Japan's Ririrak Hironika (30:56.32) and Mikuni Yada (31:12.21).
