GANGTOK, SEPT 29: India’s women’s 4x400m relay team created history on Tuesday, winning gold at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya and securing India’s first-ever athletics gold medal at the Asian Games.
The quartet of Kiran, Machettira Poovamma, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj produced a commanding performance in the final, crossing the finish line in 3 minutes 29.69 seconds. Bahrain claimed silver, while China took bronze.
The landmark victory added another gold to India’s tally and marked a historic breakthrough for the country in Asian Games athletics.
Vithya Ramraj enjoyed another memorable moment on the track. Earlier in the competition, she had won bronze in the women’s 400m hurdles with a personal best of 54.75 seconds, breaking PT Usha’s more than four-decade-old national record.
Ramraj had also featured in India’s silver-winning mixed 4x400m relay team, making the 4x400m women’s gold her latest achievement at the Games.
India’s historic athletics triumph came on a memorable Day 11, which also saw Neeru Dhanda win gold in the women’s trap event.
Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra congratulated Dhanda and the women’s relay team, praising their performances for inspiring a new generation of athletes.
“Somewhere across India, young girls will have watched them and thought, ‘I want to do that. I can do that,’” Bindra wrote on X, underlining the wider significance of the athletes’ achievements.
Earlier, India also secured bronze in the mixed 4x100m relay. Gurindervir Singh, Animesh Kujur, Sneha Sathyanarayana and Harita Bhadra clocked a season-best 41.06 seconds to finish third.
But the day belonged to India’s women’s 4x400m relay quartet, whose golden run delivered a historic first-ever athletics gold for India at the Asian Games.
अनलाइन् खबर पत्रिका तथ्य जाँच र आचारसंहिता प्रतिवेदन:
यो सामग्री हाम्रा सम्पादक टोलीद्वारा तथ्य प्रमाणीकरण र प्रेस काउन्सिल अफ इन्डिया आचारसंहिता बमोजिम प्रकाशित गरिएको हो।
