Indian athletes win four more gold medals at Asian Youth Championships

Press Trust of India  |  Hong Kong 

Vishvendra Singh broke the championship record with a timing of 44:09.75 in 10000m Race Walk as bagged four gold medals on the second day of the Asian Youth Athletics Championships, here Saturday.

Paramjeet Singh Bisht won the bronze medal in same event by clocking 44.21.96.

Usaid Khan maintained his overnight lead to win his first gold medal in the men's with 6952 points.

He broke the earlier championship record of 6671 points held by of Ansar Ali of stacked up 5943 points to win the bronze.

Thabitha P.M. of leaped to 5.86m in her fourth attempt to win her second gold medal in the women's event. Another Indian in the fray Ambrikha Narzary bagged the bronze medal with a jump of 5.73m in her fourth attempt.

carried his brilliant form from heats to win the fifth gold medal for India with a timing of 48.17s.

Earlier in the heats held yesterday, he finished first overall to qualify for finals.

Silver medal went to Sri Lankan (48.26s) and Bronze medal was won by Yefin of Kazakshtan (48.59s).

Another Indian in the competition, Ramachandra got disqualified due to a false start in the finals.

Fastest female of Asian Youth Championship 2019 was India's who clocked a timing of 11.97s in 100m sprint.

of India clocked 6:00.45 to win the silver medal in 2000m steeple chase event.

India ended the second day on the top of medal tally with seven gold medals, two silver medals and five bronze medals.

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First Published: Sat, March 16 2019. 20:45 IST