A record-breaking Avinash Sable on Sunday grew to become the primary Indian man to win a gold medal in 3000m steeplechase on the Asian Games. The 29-year-old nationwide document holder thus earned India its first gold medal in athletics on the ongoing Games, finishing the race in 8:19.50 seconds. Sable rewrote the earlier Asian Games document of 8:22.79 held within the identify of Iran’s Hossein Keyhani set on the 2018 Jakarta Games. Sudha Singh had gained a gold in girls’s 3000m steeplechase within the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. Earlier, the toast of the nation within the final version, Indian heptathlete Swapna Barman’s one “last shot” at glory on the Asian Games become a nightmare as she struggled with accidents to nearly exit of medal reckoning after the javelin throw occasion.

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The defending champion, who boasts of a private better of 52.55m in javelin throw, managed a throw of simply 45.13 within the penultimate occasion of the gruelling two-day competitors.

India’s 1st Gold in Athletics and twelfth Gold general in Asian Games 2023.

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Javelin throw was one of many two occasions Swapna had gained in 2018 en path to turning into the primary Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold.

Overall, Swapna was ranked fourth with 4840 factors, 11 factors behind her nearest rival Jingyi Liu of China forward of the 800m race, which is the final section of the seven-event competitors.

The different Indian within the fray, Nandini Agasara notched a private better of 39.88m in javelin throw that took her general rating to fifth place.

Earlier within the day, Swapna Barman leapt 5.71m within the lengthy leap, whereas Nandini Agasara had a season-best 5.94m leap.

With her profession ravaged by a spinal damage, the six-toed Indian athlete had contemplated retirement final yr. But she took one final shot at glory and got here to Hanghzou in her title defence bid.

This yr she gained the Inter-State meet and in addition bagged a silver medal within the build-up to the Asian Games. She additionally averted surgical procedure in order to make sure that she doesn’t miss her coaching regardless of a nasty again.

“But her body condition could not cope up and she failed to get a good start,” her coach Subhash Sarkar informed PTI.

“She was expecting a good result in high jump but a fourth place finish shattered her and she couldn’t recover from there,” he added.

Swapna had a leap of 1.70m, which was nowhere near her private better of 1.87.

“The poor start has affected her morale and it showed in today’s javelin throw event. It’s as good as over,” Sarkar stated of Swapna’s prospects this time.

Earlier, India’s Amlan Borgohain completed on the third place after clocking 21.08 seconds within the males’s 200m heats and superior to the semifinal.

The first three athletes in every warmth make the reduce for the semi-finals. The high 4 occasions from all of the heats who haven’t made the reduce can even advance to the semifinals.

The sprinter from Assam, at present the nation’s quickest, holds each the boys’s 100m and 200m nationwide information.

However, Jyothi Yarraji didn’t make the reduce for the ladies’s 200m last. The Indian had a timing of 23.78s.

Yarraji, nevertheless, is in competition for a medal in girls’s 100m hurdles.

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