Indian athlete Himanshu Jakhar wins gold and creates history!!

Indian athlete Himanshu Jakhar has created history by winning a gold medal at the Asian Athletics Under-18 Championships. He won the gold medal in the javelin throw event. india has won a total of 11 medals in the Asian Athletics Under-18 Championships being held in Saudi Arabia. Himanshu Jakhar won the gold with a throw of 67.57 meters. He defeated China's Lu Hao (63.45 m) and Uzbekistan's Ruslan Sadullayev (61.97 m). Himanshu was the one who won India's first gold medal at the Asian U18 Athletics Championships. In this series, indian athletes have won 11 medals, including one gold, five silver, and five bronze.
Earlier, india had finished with 24 medals at the 2023 Asian U18 Athletics Championships held in Tashkent. On april 16, indian athlete Nitin Gupta won the silver medal in the 5000m race at the Asian U18 Athletics Championships, giving india its first medal. The 17-year-old Nitin finished the race in 20:21:51 seconds. China's Zhu Ninggao was only 0.01 seconds behind him. Nitin led in the last 100m of the tough round but eventually lost. This led to the loss of gold. In the women's category, she won her first medal for india in Dammam, which was a silver medal in the 400m race. She finished the race in 57.63 seconds. Before her, Japan's Imamine Saki won the gold in 57.25 seconds. Nishach brought india a double medal. The 16-year-old Nishach won a silver medal in the shot put with a throw of 19.59 meters and a bronze medal in the discus throw with a throw of 58.85 meters. aarthi won bronze medals in the women's 100m and 200m races. She set personal bests in both events, clocking 11.93 seconds in the 100m and 24.31 seconds in the 200m. Devak bhushan won a silver medal in the high jump with a jump of 2.03 meters.

The silver medal in the medley relay was won by Shiranth B, Syed Sabir, Saket Minj, and Qadir Khan. She set a new national record of 1:52.15 seconds. In the women's relay race, the team of Aarti, priya Mishra, Edwina Jason, and Tannu failed to win a medal. In the women's high jump, Sajesh Patil missed out on a medal.
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Sowmiya Sriram

19/04/2025 11:34 AM