Asian Indoor Athletics Championships: Chitravel, Aldrin set new triple and lengthy bounce nationwide records-Sports activities Information , Firstpost

Jeswin Aldrin bettered the sooner nationwide indoor file of seven.92m which was within the title of Prem Kumar. Screengrab from Twitter video

Astana: Shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor clinched a gold, India’s first on the opening day of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships right here on Friday.

Toor stood on prime of the rostrum with a finest throw of 19.49m. The opposite Indian in fray, Karanveer Singh secured silver with a throw of 19.37m for a 1-2 end for the nation.

Triple jumper Praveen Chitravel smashed the nationwide indoor file throughout his silver medal-winning effort whereas lengthy jumper Jeswin Aldrin additionally bettered the nationwide mark en path to the ultimate spherical. Chitravel produced a finest bounce of 16.98m — which bettered Amarjeet Singh’s earlier nationwide indoor file of 16.26m (in 2008 Doha version) — but it surely was not sufficient for a gold medal which was gained by China’s Fang Yaoqing (17.20m).

Aldrin, in the meantime, bettered the sooner nationwide indoor file of seven.92m which was within the title of Prem Kumar (2016 version) in addition to of Murali Sreeshankar (2022 World Indoor Championships).

Aldrin completed first within the qualification spherical. The ultimate shall be held on Sunday. Within the girls’s pentathlon, Swapna Barman took the silver with a complete of 4119 factors from 5 occasions. Ekaterina Voronina of Uzbekistan gained the gold with 4386 factors.

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