New Delhi

The Indian contingent ongoing to showcase their opportunity at the 21st Asian U20 Athletics Championships that concluded Saturday in Dubai by winning 29 medals, which includes 7 gold, which was better than the 19 medals (6 gold, 7 silver, six bronze) won at the past edition held in Yecheon, South Korea in 2023.
At the 2024 edition of Asian U20 meet in Dubai, the Indian crew also won 11 silver and equal variety of bronze medals to complete next in medal standing guiding China.

This is for the initial time given that 1996 Indian contingent took the second spot in medal standing at the Asian U20 Athletics Championships.

Promising pole vaulter Dev Meena won 19th medal for the Indian group, a bronze, in the men’s pole vault function that concluded late Friday night. He scaled a height of 5.10m.

On Saturday Indian team started their medal hurry by means of significant hurdler Unnathi Ayyappa who received bronze, India 20th medal, in women’s 100m hurdles with a time of 13.65 seconds. Sabita Toppo concluded 7th with a time of 14.49 secs.

Laxita Vinod Sandilea received silver in the women’s 1500m. Her time was 4:25.63 seconds. It was her second silver of the opposition. Before she experienced also gained silver in 800m.

Gaurav Bhaskar Bhosale sprinted property to clinch silver in the men’s 3,000m. His time was 8:31.20. Vikas Kumar Bind added bronze to the team’s tally with a time of 8:33.00.

Indian athletes ongoing to excel in the women’s 5,000m observe race. Ekta Dey clinched silver with a time of 16:49.70 seconds, although Sunita Devi won bronze. She clocked 16:52.54 seconds.

Extended jumper Md Atta Sajid included bronze to the Indian contingent. His best leap was 7.52m
Indian men’s 4x100m relay received the bronze medal with a countrywide document of 40.01 seconds. The women’s 4x100m relay staff received bronze but were later on disqualified for baton exchange outdoors the altering zone at the 3rd leg.

In the extended relay, the women’s 4x400m relay team (Anushka Dattatray, Kanista Teena Maria, SAI Sangeetha Dodla, Sandramol Sabu) won gold with a time of 3:41.50. The men’s 4x400m relay workforce (Abiram Pramod, Navpreet Singh, Nikhil Suhas Dhake, Aman Choudhary) posted a time of 3:09.36 to earn silver.