Athletics
Taiwan Athletics Open: Pooja, Annu Rani win gold, Shaili pips Ancy to win silver - Highlights
Catch all the highlights from the last day of the Taiwan Open Athletics event in Chinese Taipei on Sunday.
Top Indian track and field athletes to compete at the Taiwan Open Athletics 2025. (File Photo)
Fourteen Indian athletes participated in the final day of the World Athletics Continental Bronze event, the Taiwan Athletics Open 2025, in Chinese Taipei on Sunday.
Ancy Sojan and Shaili Singh led the day for India in women's long jump, followed by national record holder Annu Rani in the women's javelin throw final.
Meanwhile, Rohit Yadav was the only Indian male player in the field events on the second day as he competed in the men's javelin final.
In the track, the men's and women's 400m hurdles and 800m events took place, whereas the men's 4*400m relay team won the gold medal.
As it happened:
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- 8 Jun 2025 10:24 AM GMT
A double podium finish for India in the women's 800m
Pooja wins gold with a new championship record time of 2:02.79s to edge past her compatriot Twinkle Chaudhary, who clocked 2:06.96s to win the silver medal.
With this, Pooja completed her 800-1500m double, having a championship record in both events.
- 8 Jun 2025 10:10 AM GMT
The women's 800m Final is also about to start
India's Pooja and Twinkle Chaudhary in action
- 8 Jun 2025 9:54 AM GMT
Yashas Palaksha wins the silver medal with a new personal best of 49.22s
Yashas came from behind in a very exciting final to clinch the silver medal, leaving behind the two Japanese hurdlers.
This will be a confidence booster for Yashas, who missed out on the Asian Championships but returned to his first international tournament of the year to clock a new personal best and win the silver medal.
In fact, his time of 49.22s is better than the Asian Championships 2025 silver medalist, Bassem Hemeida of Qatar (49.44s)
- 8 Jun 2025 9:45 AM GMT
Up Next: - Men's 400m Hurdles - Yashas Palaksha
Yashas Palaksha will be aiming to start his 2025 International circuit with a win, but he will be getting a good fight from the two Japanese hurdlers in the final.
Here is the startlist:
(1) An Seong Jung (KOR)
(2) Wu Yu-Ting (TPE)
(3) Chen Jian-Rong (TPE)
(4) Yashas Palaksha (IND)
(5) Yusaku Kodama (JPN)
(6) Tatsuhiro Yamamoto (JPN)
(7) Lin Chung-Wei (TPE)
(8) Chi Chong Cheong (MAC)
- 8 Jun 2025 9:36 AM GMT
Vithya Ramraj wins the 400m hurdles gold medal with a good time of 56.53s
Vithya clocked another sub-57s time of 2025 to win the 400m hurdles title, clocking her third-best time of the year.
This will help her to gain some good ranking points for the World Championships.
Vithya's top three times of 2025
56.04s - Federation Cup Final
56.46s - Asian Championship Final
56.53s - Taiwan Open Final
- 8 Jun 2025 9:20 AM GMT
Rohit Yadav wins the gold medal with the best throw of 74.42m
It wasn't a good outing for Rohit as he could not breach the 75m mark.
However, it was enough for him to win the men's javelin throw gold medal in his first overseas tournament of the year.
Final Standings:
Rohit Yadav (IND) - 74.42m
Huang Shih-Feng (TPE) - 74.04m
Cheng Chao-Tsun (TPE) - 73.95m
- 8 Jun 2025 9:15 AM GMT
Up Next: - Women's 400m hurdles final - Vithya Ramraj
Vithya will be aiming to breach the 56s barrier for the first time this year and clinch some good ranking points for the World Championships qualification mark.
Here is the startlist:
(1) 1051 Ko-Yung Sin (TPE)
(2) 1112 Chiao Ling Lin (TPE)
(3) 1246 Arisa Weruwanarak (THA)
(4) 1278 Isabella Guthrie (AUS)
(5) 1092 Lo Pei-Lin (TPE)
(6) 1225 V. RAMRAJ (IND)
(7) 1017 ZHONG Xin-Ru (TPE)
(8) 1040 Liou Yu-Jhen (TPE)
- 8 Jun 2025 9:01 AM GMT
Another poor throw of 70.34m from Rohit, but he still maintains his lead in final
At the halfway stage:
Rohit Yadav (IND) - 74.25m
Huang Shih-Feng (TPE) - 74.04m
Cheng Chao-Tsun (TPE) - 67.34m
Wachirawit Sornwichai (THA) - 65.91m
- 8 Jun 2025 8:49 AM GMT
Rohit improves his mark to 74.25m on the second attempt
This also helped him to take the overall lead in the final after two attempts.
