Abdulla Aboobacker who received the lads’s triple leap gold.
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Abdulla Aboobacker, the Commonwealth Games silver medallist who had been struggling to cross 16m in two meets early this season, received the lads’s triple leap gold on the 57th Oda Mikio memorial athletics meet in Hiroshima on Saturday.
The 27-year-old Indian produced his greatest, 16.31m, in his final effort to complete forward of Australian champion Hinson Aiden (16.18m) in the World Athletics Continental Tour-Bronze occasion in Japan.
Abdulla had received the Commonwealth Games silver with 17.02m final yr, however this season he may solely handle 15.93 and 15.77 whereas ending third in the 2 home meets he competed in March.
Meanwhile, Ankita stunningly bettered her private greatest by greater than 20s (earlier greatest 15:55.15s) whereas ending fifth in the 5000m clocking 15:33.24.
That noticed the 21-year-old comfortably obtain the Athletics Federation of India’s Asian Games qualification ‘guideline’ of 15:49.00. Kenya’s Teresiah Muthoni, the under-20 World champion, received the gold in 15:13.41.
In the lads’s 3000m steeple chase, Balkishan was tenth with 8:47.71s.
