World University Games: Ankita baggage ladies’s 3000m steeplechase silver, males’s 4x100m relay group takes bronze
The trio of Munita Prajapati, Mansi Negi, and Sejal Singh completed third to take the bronze in ladies’s 20km group racewalk on the concluding day.
India ended their marketing campaign with two gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze within the showpiece occasion.
On a day when a number of Indian athletes had been in rivalry in monitor occasions, however might bag solely two medals, 23-year-old Ankita, a second-year social sciences scholar, shaved practically seven seconds from her private greatest time of 9:39.00 seconds to complete just a few milliseconds behind Finland’s Ilona Maaria Mononen, who timed 9:31.86.
Adia Budde of Germany took the bronze, clocking 9:33.34 seconds.
On Friday, Ankita had topped Heat 1 by clocking 9:54.79 seconds and secured her place within the remaining. It was a large 22-second enchancment, which propelled Ankita to second place within the aggressive race.
Ankita remained within the top-five via a lot of the race and got here up with a wide ranging dash within the remaining 300 metres to nearly meet up with the German earlier than lacking the gold by simply 0.13 seconds.
The males’s 4x100m relay group, comprising Lalu Prasad Bhoi, Animesh Kujur, Manikanta Hoblidhar and Mrutyam Jayaram, clocked 38.89 seconds to take the bronze. South Korea took the gold in 38.50 seconds, whereas South Africa (38.80) bagged the silver.
The Indian ladies’s 4x400m relay group got here up with a season’s greatest time of three:35.08 seconds, but it surely was not adequate for a medal, because the quartet of Anakha Bijukumar, Devyaniba Zala, Rashdeep Kaur and Rupal completed fifth, clocking 3:35.08 seconds.
The German group, regardless of a poor response time, received the gold with a time of three:29.68 seconds.
The Indian males’s 4x400m relay quartet of Vishal Kayalvizhi, Aswin Lakshmanan, Jerome Jayaseelan Panimaya and Balakrishna completed fifth, clocking 3:06.5.seconds.
Poland received the gold with a time of three:03.64.
Indian race walkers had a dismal displaying, with none of them ending within the top-10 within the males’s and girls’s sections, although just a few got here up with private or season greatest timings. However, the trio of Munita, Mansi, and Sejal completed third to take the bronze in ladies’s 20km group racewalk.
Sejal got here up with a private better of 1:35:21 seconds to complete fifteenth, with the gold going to Australia’s Elizabeth McMillen in a WUG report time of 1:28:18 seconds.
Munita (1:39:33) was 18th, Mansi (1:41:12) was twentieth, Shalini (1:48:07) twenty third, and Mahima (1:55.49) twenty fifth.
In males’s 20km racewalk, Rahul clocked a season’s greatest 1:26:34 seconds however completed twentieth within the males’s 20km race stroll remaining with the gold going to Andrea Cosi of Italy with a World University Games report of 1:19:48 seconds.
Gaurav Kumar (1:28:44) was twenty fifth, Sachin Singh Bohra (1:32:03) twenty eighth and Sanjay Kumar (1:46:21) completed final amongst 31 opponents.
Pole vaulter Dev Kumar Meena (5.35m) settled for a fifth-place end within the remaining with the gold going to Simen Guttormsen (5.75m) of Norway.
India’s medal winners: Gold – Parneet Kaur/Kushal Dalal (combined group compound archery), Sahil Jadhav (males’s compound archery). Silver – Parneet Kaur (ladies’s compound archery), Kushal Dalal/Sahil Jadhav/Hritik Sharma (males’s group compound archery), Praveen Chithravel (males’s triple leap), Seema (ladies’s 5000m), Ankita Dhyani (ladies’s 3000m steeplechase). Bronze – Badminton combined group, Vaishnavi Adkar (ladies’s singles tennis), Parneet Kaur/Avneet Kaur/Madhura Dhamangaonkar (ladies’s compound group archery), Sejal Singh, Munita Prajapati, Mansi Negi (ladies’s 20km racewalk group), males’s 4x100m relay.
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