Athletes Anas, Hima, Dutee take silvers

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Indian sprinters Mohamed Anas, Hima Das and Dutee Chand claimed silver medals in their respective events at the 18th Asian Games yesterday.
Anas and Das claimed the silver medals in the men's and women's 400 metres races respectively.
Reigning Asian champion Anas completed the race in 45.69 seconds to be second, while Das clocked a national record mark of 50.79 seconds to take the second place in the women's race.
The other two Indian competitors in the races, Rajiv Arokia and Nirmala finished fourth. While Rajiv timed 45.84 seconds to complete the men's 400m race, Nirmala finished the race in 52.96 seconds.
The men's title went to Qatar's Abdalelah Hassan, who completed the race in 44.89 seconds as he fended off Anas, who has a personal best of 45.31 seconds. Anas' personal best mark had given him a fourth-place finish in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Ali Khamis of Bahrain picked the bronze medal with a timing of 45.70 as he finished ahead of 2014 edition bronze medallist Rajiv.
In the women's race, Bahrain's Salwa Naser produced a Games record timing of 50.09 seconds to finish ahead of 18-year-old Hima, who had renewed the Indian record of 51.00 seconds on Saturday in the semi-finals.
Assam girl Hima, the Under-20 world champion, was definitely a medal contender but in the final, Naser, who had won a silver medal at the IAAF World Championships with a national record of 50.06 seconds, proved to be superior to the Indian.
The bronze medal went to Kazakhstan Elina Milkhina, who clocked 52.63 seconds to finish ahead of Nirmala.
Later in the day, Dutee clinched the silver medal in the women's 100m final.
Dutee clocked 11.32 seconds to earn the silver. The gold medal went to Edidiong Odiong of Bahrain, who clocked 11.30s while China's Yongli Wei took the bronze, clocking 11.33s.
Earlier during the morning session, India's Anu Raghavan and Jauna Murmu qualified for the women's 400m hurdles final.


Two equestrian silvers
India bagged two silver medals in the equestrian competition yesterday. In the final of the jumping team event, the Indian team of Rakesh Kumar, Ashish Malik, Jitender Singh and Fouaad Mirza scored 121.30 points to finish second.
Japan scored 82.40 to win the gold medal while Thailand's 126.70 gave them the bronze.
Fouaad shone in the final of the jumping individual event as well, taking the silver with 26.40 points.
Oiwa Yoshiaki of Japan clinched the gold with 22.70 points while the bronze went to Alex Hua Tian (27.10) of China.


Bronze for mixed and men's bridge teams
India's mixed and men's bridge teams got a bronze medal each after losing their semi-final matches.
The mixed team, comprising Kiran Nadar, Satyanarayana Bachiraju, Hema Deora, Gopinath Manna, Himani Khandelwal and Rajeev Khandelwal, lost to Thailand in their semi-final match.
The men's team of Jaggy Shivdasani, Rajeshwar Tewari, Sumit Mukherjee, Debabrata Majumder, Raju Tolani and Ajay Khare, fell against Singapore in the semi-finals.
India's men's and women's compound archery teams overcame Taiwan teams in the semi-finals yesterday to set up title clashes against South Korean teams.
While the men's team beat Qatar, Philippines and Taiwan in the three matches on the day to be one win away from successfully defending their title, the women's team got past Indonesia and Taiwan in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.
India men's hockey team defeated South Korea 5-3 to sit at the top of pool A yesterday.
The reigning champions will only need a draw against Sri Lanka tomorrow to end the pool stage as a top-ranked team and enter the semi-finals.
It was India's fourth successive victory in Pool after winning 17-0 against Indonesia, 26-0 against Hong-Kong China and 8-0 win against Japan in their first three matches respectively.
It was drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh (1st minute), Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (5th), Lalit Upadhyay (16th), Manpreet Singh (49th) and Akashdeep Singh (56th) who contributed to India's scoreline.
For South Korea, Skipper Manjae Jung (33th, 35th) and Jhongyun Jang (60th) scored.

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