NEW DELHI: Indian athletes claimed four gold medals in the opening day of the Taiwan Open on Saturday.
Pooja opened the account for India by clinching gold in the women’s 1500m event. She clocked 4:11.65 to grab the top spot on the podium.
Last month, she won silver in the same event at the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, with a time of 4:10.83. The 22-year-old had also won bronze in the 800m race in the competition.
India won its second gold of the event through Abdulla Aboobacker, who claimed top spot in men’s triple jump, with a leap of 16.21m from his third attempt.
India added two more gold medals from the sprint hurdles. Jyoti Yarraji won the women’s 100m hurdles event with a timing of 12.99s. The Indian hurdler relied on a desperate final push to claim a win, after going into the final hurdle trailing at second.
Tejas Shirse made it a double by winning gold in the men’s 110m hurdles race, with a Season’s Best timing of 13.52s. Agencies
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