Arun Kumar bags 3rd gold for India in Junior Asian Athletics
Indian athletes added three more medals to their tally in Junior Asian Athletics with Arun Kumar bagging third gold for India and Gurvinder Singh and Arpandeep Kaur Bajwa winning a bronze each. With one day remaining, Indian athletes have won three gold, one silver and nine bronze medals.
The third day of the 2018 Junior Asian Athletics turned out quite fruitful for the Indian athletes as they added one gold and two bronze medals to their tally in Gifu, Japan on Saturday. With these three medals to their tally, Indian athletes have won three gold medals, one silver and nine bronze medals in the competition so far.
Anu Kumar got India their third gold of the competition in the menās 800m. Uttarakhand based middle distance runner Kumar, who trains at the sports college Raipur, clocked 1:54.11 seconds to leave behind Iranās Abdolrahim Dorzadeh who clocked 1:54.23 seconds. The third place on the podium was claimed by Japanās Fuki Torii who clocked a time of 1:54.55 seconds.
Kumar had earlier won a silver medal in the 800m at the World School Games in France. He had been coming into the tournament on the back of a strong performance, clocking 1:50.60 seconds to take gold at the Junior Federation Cup in April this year.Ā
Gurvinder Singh, who had broken the junior national record with a time of 10.47 seconds, managed to secure a bronze medal in the menās 4x100m relay. Singh had been expected to do well in the menās 100m, but hasnāt quite lived up to his potential. However, this medal would certainly provide some relief to the sprinter.Ā Ā
Earlier he had crashed out in the heats, clocking only 11.09 seconds. In the relay though, Singh and the rest of the Indian team ā Prajwal Mandanna Kakera Ravi, Akash Kumar and Nitin Balakumar clocked a time of 40.75 seconds to claim a medal behind winners Japan (39.65 seconds) and Chinese Taipei (39.72 seconds)
The final Indian medal of the day came from Arpandeep Kaur Bajwa in the womenās discus throw. The Amritsar based athlete threw the iron disc a distance of 46.57m to take bronze behind the Chinese pair of Yuanyuan Yin and Huanhuan Yang who recorded throws of 51.17m and 51.53m respectively.