Asian Games: Gulveer Singh luggage second silver with 1500m private greatest time in Japan
NEW DELHI: Indian distance runner Gulveer Singh continued his spectacular marketing campaign on the Asian Games 2026, successful his second silver medal in Japan with a private greatest efficiency within the males’s 1500m closing on Monday.Gulveer clocked 3:36.72 to complete second behind Japan’s Kazuto Iizawa, who clinched gold, whereas one other Japanese runner, Nagiya Mori, took bronze in 3:37.92. India’s different finalist, Yoonus Shah, completed ninth with a time of three:43.88.The silver added to Gulveer’s medal assortment on the ongoing Games, having already secured a second-place end within the males’s 10,000m. His newest podium end additionally supplied a shiny spot for Indian athletics on a day when defending champion Avinash Sable missed out on a medal within the 3000m steeplechase.Gulveer’s double silver underlined his consistency throughout two demanding distance occasions, as he improved his private greatest within the 1500m to complete among the many main runners within the discipline.Asian Games Full Coverage | Medal Tally | Schedule
Vithya breaks PT Usha’s report with 400m hurdles bronze
Earlier, Vithya Ramraj delivered a historic efficiency within the girls’s 400m hurdles, successful bronze with a private better of 54.75 seconds and breaking a nationwide report that had stood for greater than 4 a long time.The 28-year-old from Coimbatore completed behind UAE’s Mariam Kareem, who gained gold in a Games-record 54.31 seconds, and Kazakhstan’s Adelina Zems, who took silver in a private better of 54.58.Vithya bettered the 55.42 seconds recorded by legendary Indian athlete PT Usha on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. It was her second medal on the Games, following silver within the 4x400m combined relay.India’s Anu Raghavan completed fifth within the closing with a private better of 55.88 seconds.
Sable’s title defence ends in disappointment
The day’s greatest setback for India got here within the males’s 3000m steeplechase, the place defending champion and Games report holder Avinash Sable completed fourth regardless of clocking a season-best 8:21.67.The 32-year-old two-time Olympian from Maharashtra, who has been troubled by accidents, completed 4.31 seconds behind Japan’s Ryuji Miura, who gained gold in a Games-record 8:17.36. Miura’s compatriot Ryoma Aoki claimed silver in a private better of 8:17.60, whereas Qatar’s Zakaria Elahlaami took bronze in 8:18.13.Sable’s failure to defend his title was a serious disappointment for India, significantly after he had established himself as one of many nation’s main distance runners.There was additional frustration within the girls’s discus throw, the place Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Seema Kaliramna completed fourth regardless of recording a private better of 59.88m in her fifth try. All three medal winners crossed the 60m mark.In the lads’s 400m hurdles, Santosh Kumar Tamilarasan completed seventh within the eight-man closing with a timing of 49.95 seconds.
