A day after winning a bronze medal for India in the women’s 3000m steeplechase event, Parul Chaudhary secured another podium finish on Monday (September 28) by bagging a bronze in the women’s 5000m final.
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The 31-year-old Indian athlete finished the 5000m race with a timing of 15:14.61 minutes.
Seema Kumari was also in action for India in the final but she finished sixth after clocking 15:35.06.
Winfred Yavi of Bahrain bagged the gold medal with a timing of 15:10.18 minutes, while Nozomi Tanaka of Japan settled for silver with a timing of 15:11.65 minutes.
In the 2022 edition of Asian Games, Parul had secured gold medal in the women’s 5000m event.
Silver for Gulveer
Long-distance runner
Gulveer Singh secured a silver medal in the men’s 1500m final with a personal best effort of 3:36.72.
Gulveer, who had already won a silver in the 10,000m in the ongoing edition, finished behind gold medallist Kazuto Iizawa of Japan, while compatriot Nagiya Mori won the bronze with an effort of 3:37.92.
The other Indian, Yoonus Shah, finished ninth with an effort of 3:43.88.
Earlier, Vithya Ramraj clinched a bronze medal in the women’s 400m hurdles event but long-distance runner Avinash Sable failed to defend his gold medal, finishing fourth in the men’s 3000m steeplechase final.
Ramraj clocked a personal best of 54.75 seconds to break a more than four-decade-old national record created by the legendary P T Usha and win a second medal at the ongoing edition of the quadrennial event. She was a part of the silver-winning the 4x400m mixed relay team.
The 28-year-old from Coimbatore finished behind UAE’s Mariam Kareem, who won gold with a Games record 54.31 seconds, and Kazakhstan’s Adelina Zems, who took silver with a personal best of 54.58sec.
Ramraj bettered Usha’s 55.42sec effort that came in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
India’s Anu Raghavan finished fifth. She recorded a personal best of 55.88 seconds.
Later, the injury-ravaged Sable produced a season’s best effort but could not defend his gold medal, finishing fourth in the men’s 3000m steeplechase final.
The 32-year-old from Maharashtra, a two-time Olympian, clocked 8:21.67sec, finishing 4.31 seconds behind Japan’s Ryuji Miura, who won the gold with a Games record of 8:17.36sec.
Miura’s compatriot Ryoma Aoki claimed the silver with a personal best of 8:17.60, while Qatar’s Zakaria Elahlaami took the bronze in 8:18.13.
(With inputs from PTI)
