Asian Indoor Athletics Championships: Chitravel, Aldrin set new triple and long jump national records

Astana: Shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor clinched a gold, India’s first on the opening day of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships here on Friday. Toor stood on top of the podium with a best throw of 19.49m. The other Indian in fray, Karanveer Singh secured silver with a throw of 19.37m for a 1-2 finish for the country.

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Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Karanveer Singh won Gold & Silver in men Shotput with best effort of 19.49m & 19.37m @afiindia

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Triple jumper Praveen Chitravel smashed the national indoor record during his silver medal-winning effort while long jumper Jeswin Aldrin also bettered the national mark en route to the final round. Chitravel produced a best jump of 16.98m – which bettered Amarjeet Singh’s earlier national indoor record of 16.26m (in 2008 Doha edition) – but it was not enough for a gold medal which was won by China’s Fang Yaoqing (17.20m). Aldrin, meanwhile, bettered the earlier national indoor record of 7.92m which was in the name of Prem Kumar (2016 edition) as well as of Murali Sreeshankar (2022 World Indoor Championships).

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Jeswin Aldrin creates new indoor NATIONAL RECORD in long jump as he qualifies for the final of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships with a distance of 7.93m. #JeswinAldrin #AsianIndoorAthleticsChampionships #IndianAthletics pic.twitter.com/tegKSSowTU

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Aldrin finished first in the qualification round. The final will be held on Sunday. In the women’s pentathlon, Swapna Barman took the silver with a total of 4119 points from five events. Ekaterina Voronina of Uzbekistan won the gold with 4386 points. Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.