Athletics
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:
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- 28 May 2025 8:17 AM GMT
Tejaswin starts with a foul throw but betters with a 50.18m throw on the second attempt
Desite that, he dropped to fourth place in overall standings
- 28 May 2025 7:50 AM GMT
Jyothi Yarraji, Shaili Singh, and Ancy Sojan advance to the final
The two female long jumpers, Shaili Singh (6.17m) and Ancy Sojan (6.14m), advanced to the final in the morning session on day 2.
Following them, the national record holder Jyothi Yarraji has also booked her place in the final with a decent time of 13.18s, finishing third in heat 1.
- 28 May 2025 7:40 AM GMT
Up next: - Decathlon (Javelin Throw) - Tejaswin Shankar at 1:30 PM IST
After 8 events, Tejaswin is in second position just behind the Chinese player Fei Xiang by 3 points.
With the Javelin throw and 1500m remaining, the decathlon competition is tightly poised as three players are still very much in the race to win the title.
Current Top Four players:
Fei Xiang (CHN) - 6318 Points
Tejaswin Shankar (IND) - 6315 Points
Yuma Maruyama (JPN) - 6300 Points
Chen Yu Wang (TPE) - 6131 Points
- 28 May 2025 7:25 AM GMT
There will be eight finals for Indian athletes in the second day's evening session
Schedule for the day:
- 1:30 PM - Decathlon 9 (Javelin Throw) - Tejaswin Shankar
- 1:50 PM - Triple jump men Final - Praveen Chithravel, Abdulla Aboobacker
- 2:20 PM - 400m women Final - Rupal Chudhary, Vithya Ramraj
- 2:30 PM - 1500m men Final - Yoonus Shah
- 2:40 PM- 1500m women Final - Lili Das, Pooja
- 2:50 PM - 10,000m women Final - Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav, Seema
- 3:45 PM - Decathlon 10 (1500m men) Final
- 4:10 PM - 4x400m Mixed Relay Final
