Asian Athletics C'ships: Indian Mixed relay team win gold, Tejaswin Shankar and Praveen Chithravel win silver - Highlights
Catch all the Highlights from the second day of the 2025 Asian Athletics C'ships as India won six medals on the day.
Praveen Chithravel and Tejaswin Shankar in action at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025.
The top Indian athletes were fighting for a medal at the 26th Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, on Wednesday.
The national record holder, Praveen Chithravel, and Abdulla Aboobacker were in action at the men's triple jump final, whereas Tejaswin Shankar completed his two-day-long decathlon competition.
Meanwhile, there were four Individual finals on the track for India, where Younus Shah, Lili Das, and Pooja competed in the 1500m finals, while Vishal TK, Rupal, and Vithya fought for 400m titles.
The defending champions Indian mixed 4*400m relay team, was in action in the final, scheduled for 4:10 PM IST.
As it happened:
List of Indian medalists on Day 2:
Gold - Mixed 4*400m Relay - Santosh Kumar T, Rupal Chaudhary, Vishal TK, Subha Venkatesan
Silver - Tejaswin Shankar - Decathlon
Silver - Praveen Chithravel - Triple Jump
Silver - Rupal Chaudhary - 400m Women
Silver - Pooja - 1500m Women
Bronze - Yoonus Shah - 1500m Men
The Indian team of Santosh T, Rupal, Vishal TK, and Subha Venkatesan clocked a time of 3:18.2s to clinch the gold medal.
India was also the defending champion of this event and had successfully defended the title with a big margin.
Praveen didn't have his best of the day as he had to settle for a silver medal in tough and rainy conditions, registering his best jump of 16.90m.
Meanwhile, defending champion Abdulla Aboobaker finished in fourth place with the best jump of 16.72m
Tejaswin clocked a time of 4:37.99s to finish the 1500m discipline in third place, grabbing 693 points from it.
This takes him to the second place behind the Chinese player Fei Xiang, who earned a total of 7634 points.
Tejaswin Shankar is currently in the third position going into this final discipline of the event.
He needs almost his personal best time to topple the current leader, Fei Xiang of China.
Athletes are not looking happy with this decision to stop the race.
India has two athletes, Sanjivani Jadhav and Seema, in the final.
Standings after three attempts:
Zhu Yaming (CHN) - 17.06m
Praveen Chithravel (IND) - 16.90m
Gyumin Yu (KOR) - 16.82m
Abdulla Aboobacker (IND) - 16.72m
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