Ranvir, the lads’s 3000m steeple chase champion.
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Ranvir Kumar Singh and junior National record-holder Ekta Pradeep Dey gained the lads’s and girls’s 3000m steeple chase gold on the Asian under-20 athletics championships in Dubai on Thursday.
Anurag gained males’s shot put gold.
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Ranvir clocked 9:22.67s for the lads’s title, whereas Ekta performed a affected person ready sport and gained the ladies’s gold in 10:31.95s. Another gold got here from Anurag Singh Kaler within the males’s shot put (19.23m) with defending champion Siddarth Choudhary (19.02) taking the bronze.
Meanwhile, Vinod Singh (males’s 5000m, 14:09.44s) and Amanat Kamboj (girls’s discus, 50.45m) gained silver medals. Nikita Kumari, the junior Federation Cup girls’s discus throw champion with 50.17m in Lucknow final month, was fourth with 46.84m.
Ekta Dey took the ladies’s 3000m gold.
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There have been two bronze medals too, from Aman Chaudhary within the males’s 400m (47.53s) and from junior National document holder Aarti within the girls’s 10,000m race stroll. Aarti achieved the qualification normal for the under-20 Worlds along with her time of 47:45.33s.
There was some disappointment within the girls’s 400m, with Anushka Kumbhar (56.52s) and junior Federation Cup champion Sai Sangeetha Dodla (57.26s) ending fifth and seventh respectively. Both had clocked a lot quicker timings in Lucknow final month.
