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India win women 4×400metres gold in Asian Games
Guanzghou, Nov 26 (IBNS)
Indian women ’s 4×400m relay
defended the gold medal won in
2006 with Ashwini Chidananda
leading the team to the gold
medal in the Asian Games here
on Friday.
Ashwini, who won the 400m
hurdles gold, ran in the third
leg and gave the Indian team a
huge lead over second-placed
Kazakhstan. In the last leg
Mandeep Kaur maintained the
lead to win the gold in 3min
29.02sec.
In the first leg, India’s Manjeet
Kaur was running second before
Sini Jose gave a slender lead for
Ashwini to take over.
Kazakhstan took the silver in
3:30.03 while China claimed the
bronze in 3:30.89.
The quartet had won the title in
the Commonwealth Games in
New Delhi, though today ’s effort
was well below 3:27.77 in the
CWG.
In 2006 Asian Games, Satti
Geetha, Pinki Parmanik, Chitra K
Soman and Manjeet Kaur had
won the gold in 3:32.95.
Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita
Raut clocked their personal bests
to clinch the silver and bronze
respectively in the women ’s
5000m final.
Sreedharan, who earlier clinched
the 10,000m gold, returned a
timing of 15:15.89. Raut, who
bagged silver in 10,000m, could
not get past Sreedharan yet
again but managed a personal
best of 15:16.54 to win the
bronze.
Bahrain’s Mimi Belete
Gebgregeiorges clinched the gold
medal with a timing of 15:15.59,
which was incidentally her
personal best as well.
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