Indian ladies’s javelin ace Annu Rani, together with her season-best throw, claimed India’s fifteenth gold medal within the closing within the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Games, on Tuesday. Annu touched 62.92m, which was her season’s greatest throw and topped the chart to win the nation its fifteenth gold within the ongoing Asian Games. Her greatest throw of the night got here in her fourth try. Sri Lankan javelin thrower, Nadeesha Dilhan, claimed the second spot together with her private greatest throw of 61.57m whereas China’s Huihui Lyu claimed the bronze medal with a throw of 61.29m. Earlier, on Tuesday, Indian athlete Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalath bagged silver within the males’s 800m closing.

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Afsal had a shot at gold however fell inches in need of ending first. Saudi Arabia’s Essa Ali Kzwani went previous the Indian runner in direction of the tip to say the yellow steel.

Afsal clocked 1:48.43s to say the silver. The Saudi Arabian athlete surpassed him by 0.39s as he completed the occasion with a timing of 1:48.05s.

The bronze medal was claimed by Oman’s Husain Mohsin Husain, who clocked 1:48.51s.

Krishan Kumar was the opposite Indian collaborating within the race however was disqualified for jostling/obstruction.

In the ladies’s occasion, Indian runner Parul Chaudhary etched her identify in historical past, successful a gold within the ladies’s 5000m.

Returning to the sphere after bagging a silver medal within the ladies’s 3000-metre steeplechase on Monday, Parul completed with a timing of 15:14.75 to clinch the gold, changing into the primary Indian to win the yellow steel within the ladies’s 5000m occasion on the Asian Games.

Indian athlete Praveen Chitravel has secured a bronze within the Men’s Triple Jump on the Asian Games.

Chitravel made an excellent begin with a leap of 16.68m placing himself in second place. In the second leap, he maintained his consistency with 16.63m however fell to 3rd place because the eventual gold medalist, Zhu Yaming, surged forward with a distance of 16.97m.

Chitravel took an amazing leap throughout his third leap and it appeared he’ll transfer to the second place, however it turned out to be a foul. He managed lengths of 16.24m and 16.07m in his fourth and fifth makes an attempt however his first leap was sufficient to get him bronze medal.

Aboobacker Abdulla, one other Indian athlete, completed fourth with a distance of 16.62m, which he achieved in his second leap.

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