India did not win a unmarried gold at the ultimate day and as a substitute settled for 8 silver and 5 bronze medals to complete 3rd within the medals tally with a haul of 27 medals, together with six gold.
Among the advantageous performers on Sunday have been younger DP Manu (silver, males’s javelin throw), Jyothi Yarraji (silver, girls’s 200m) and Parul Choudhary (silver, girls’s 5000m).
Young Manu was once content material along with his silver in his debut meet as a senior global.
“The wind played havoc with my throws. I tried my best, but it was still landing nose down. Then I figured it out and came up with a flat throw on my last attempt,” Manu told TOI.
The women’s 200m final saw a gripping contest between 100m hurdles winner Jyothi and 100m winner Pereria Veronica Shanti. In the end, the Singaporean won in 22.70 seconds with a new championship record. Jyothi clocked her season’s best time of 23.13. China’s Li Yuting came third (23.25).
In the women’s 5000m, though Parul Chaudhary’s double hopes were dashed by Japan’s Yuma Yamamoto, the Indian came home in 15:52.35s to take the silver. Ankita also climbed the podium by winning the bronze in 16:03.33s.
Priyanka Goswami, meanwhile, made use of her extended training sessions in Bengaluru as she won the silver in the women’s 20k race walk that was held on the city roads in the morning.
The rising temperature affected the participants as China’s Yang Liujing clocked 1:32.38s to take the gold. Priyanka (1:34.24) finished ahead of Japan’s Yukiko Umeno (1:36.18).
“The hot conditions affected the timings. I also got two red cards inside the first 10km and was hence cautious not to pick up another card in the remaining period which would have resulted in a two-minute penalty. But I knew I was clearly in line for silver and this race has given me more confidence to do well in the big meets coming up this year,” said Priyanka.
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Trained by Gurmeet Singh, a three-time medalist in Asian race-walking championship, Priyanka paid rich tributes to her coach.
“I feel I missed his (sir’s) training for a few years, if not I would have improved further,” stated Priyanka, who received the silver in Birmingham CWG in 10,000m race stroll.
There have been two extra silver medals for India within the 800m race as Krishan Kumar and Chanda got here 2nd within the two-lap race. While Kumar timed his season’s absolute best of one:45.88s to complete in the back of Qatar’s Abubaker Abdalla.
Chanda was once having a look to seize the gold when she took the lead after the bell however Sri Lanka’s Dissanayaka (2:00.66s) had so much in reserve to shift gears and race to the tape. The Indian clocked 2:01.58s forward of some other Lankan, Artigala (2:03.58).
In girls’s shot put, Abha Khatun (18.06) took the silver and Manpreet Kaur were given the bronze.
(WRITER IS IN BANGKOK AT THE INVITATION OF AAA)