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olympic champion neeraj chopra became only the second man in asian games history to defend his gold with a season’s best effort of 88.88m in the javelin throw event marred by controversy here on wednesday. the 25-year-old chopra sent his spear to 88.88m, his fourth career-best throw, in his fourth effort to clinch the gold. he had won a gold in the 2018 asian games with a throw of 88.06m. chopra’s compatriot kishore jena took the silver with a throw of 87.54m in a 1-2 finish for india. jena thus also sealed
parul chaudhary pulled off a heist for a sensational women’s 5000m gold while annu rani conjured up her season-best performance to claim the top prize in women’s javelin throw as indian athletes bagged six medals from track and field at the asian games, here on tuesday. the 28-year-old parul was behind japan’s ririka hironaka in the closing stage but stunned her rival with a stunning dash in the final 40 metres to claim the yellow metal with a timing of 15:14.75. the stunning performance earned parul her se
Despite besting the previous Asian Games record time (3:28.68 in 2014 Incheon), the Indian quartet were outplayed by Bahrain, who secured the gold medal with a new record time of 3:27.65.