Asian Athletics Championships: India finish 3rd with 27 medals

It rained medals for India as they won 13 of them on the final day of the Asian Athletics Championship to end their campaign with 27 - six gold, 12 silver and nine bronze- In Bangkok on Sunday evening.

- HARPAL SINGH BEDI

For India who overall finished third, this was their joint-highest tally at the Asian championships alongside Bhubaneswar 2017 where they had won nine gold, six silver and 12 bronze.

Japan topped the leaderboard with 37 medals-16 Gold,11 Silver,10 Bronze, China with 22 medals-8 Gold,8 Silver and six bronze was placed second.

Jyothi Yarraji, who won the women’s 100m hurdles gold earlier, earned her second medal a silver in the 200m finals. She timed a personal best of 23.13s to finish just behind Singapore’s Veronica Shanti Pereira, who claimed the gold with 22.70 - a new championship record. China’s Li Yuting (23.25) won bronze.

Javelin thrower DP Manu earned India a silver medal in this event as he logged 81.01m with his final throw to upgrade himself from a bronze to silver.

Women’s shot putters also added two medals to India’s overall tally with Abha Khatua (18.06m) and Manpreet Kaur (17.00m) claiming the silver and bronze, respectively.

China’s Song Jiayuan came up with 18.88m to claim the top podium.