India scooped 3 gold medals on the second one day of the Asian Athletics Championships with girl 100m hurdler Jyothi Yarraji clinching her maiden most sensible end in a big world tournament and Ajay Kumar Saroj working an excellent race to win the boys’s 1500m identify on Thursday. Commonwealth Games silver medalist Abdulla Aboobacker grabbed India’s 3rd gold of the day by means of profitable the boys’s triple soar tournament.
It used to be an excellent display by means of the Indians as they gained 3 gold out of 10 on be offering on Thursday. Aishwarya Mishra (53.07 seconds) used to be the opposite medal profitable Indian at the day, with a bronze within the girls’s 400m ultimate.
The 23-year-old Yarraji opened India’s gold medal as she clocked 13.09 seconds to win the 100m hurdles ultimate race forward of 2 Japanese runners Terada Asuka (13.13s) and Aoki Masumi (13.26s) on a rain-drenched monitor on the Supachalasai Stadium. Yarraji’s nationwide document stands at 12.82 seconds. She had gained gold within the National Inter-State Championships final month in 12.92 seconds however the rainy monitor, after rain lashed the stadium, used to be now not ultimate for quick time.
In the boys’s 1500m, the 26-year-old Saroj ran a brilliantly completed race as he got here out of nowhere within the ultimate bend to move previous two warring parties and win the gold. He clocked 3:41.51 seconds, two and part seconds out of doors his non-public perfect of three:39.19 which he had recorded final month in an tournament in USA.
It used to be the 3rd medal at the trot and 2nd gold for Saroj, who had skilled in america in May, within the Asian Athletics Championships. Ajay Kumar Saroj had gained gold within the 2017 version in Bhubaneswar and silver in 2019 in Doha. For Aboobacker, it used to be his season’s perfect effort of 16.92m that fetched him the gold, forward of Ikehata Hikaru (16.73m) of Japan and Jangwoo Kim (16.59m) of Korea.
The 27-year-old started with a nasty however cleared 16.92m in his fourth try for the gold. On Wednesday, Abhishek Pal had opened India’s medal account with a bronze in males’s 10,000m race.