ASIAN-LDALL IND 3LST

It was the fifth gold from the athletics arena for India
following gold medals by Ashwini in the 400m hurdles and by
Joseph Abraham in the corresponding men's event and the
opening day's heroics by Preeja and Sudha.
Preeja, however, could only get a silver in the women's
5000m despite making a great effort to catch Bahrain's
eventual gold winner Mimi Belete while compatriot Kavita Raut
got the bronze as India won one gold, a silver and a bronze.
Preeja and Kavita clocked their personal bests of
15:15.89 and 15:16.54 while Belete had a timing of 15:15.59.
Renjith Maheswary, bronze winner in the Commonwealth
Games, looked headed for the gold in men's triple jump when he
took the lead with his fourth attempt of 16.74m.
But his dream got shattered first by Kazakh Evginiy
Ektov's 16.86m in reply to the Indian's 16.71m in the final
try, before Chinese defending champion Li Yanxi uncorked a
winning leap of 16.94, incidentally his season's best, in his
fifth and last attempt to take care of the gold.
Had Maheswary come anywhere near his CWG effort of
17.07m, he would have easily won the gold, but under pressure
and in his final leap the Kerala jumper faltered to finish in
fourth place as another Chinese Asian junior champion Cao Shuo
also leaped past him with a 16.84m effort in the final attempt
to grab the bronze.
India's second entrant, Amarjit Singh, ended up a poor
7th with a best try of 16.15m from 16 starters.
The Indian men's 4x100m relay squad narrowly missed the
bronze medal after a great anchor leg by Mohamed Abdul Najeeb
who started in fifth position when the baton was passed to him
by third runner Shameer Naseem Mon and nearly edged out the
last runner of Thailand, Sittichai Sowonprateep. The other
Indian runners were M Rahamatulla and Suresh Sathya.
Two bronze medals came from rollersports with Anup Kumar
Yama bagging one in men's single free skating before combining
with Avani Panchal to finish third in the pairs skating event.
Anup totalled 244.2 in his singles routine for which he
fetched 123.6 on technical merit and 120.6 for artistic
impression.
In the pairs event, Anup and Avani combined for a score
of 222 which included 112.5 points on technical merit and
109.5 for artistic impression.
Indian men's chess team of P Harikrishna, Sasikiran
Krishnan, Surya Shekar Ganguly and B Adhiban contributed a
bronze with a 3.0-0.5 victory over Iran the ninth and final
round.
Despite suffering an elbow injury, Indian woman wrestler
Suman Kundu reached the semifinals of the 63kg freestyle
wrestling but failed a get a bronze.
The injury hampered her from giving her best in the
semifinal bout and she lost 0-3 to Mongolia's Nasanbyrmaa
Ochirbat. She was overwhelmed 0-5 by China's Chen Meng in the
bronze-medal play-off. PTI SSR PDS
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