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India medal winners in Athletics Asian Games 2023

India medal winners in Athletics Asian Games 2023

5 min read Last Updated : Oct 08 2023 | 11:50 AM IST

India was always expected to win many medals in the athletics discipline at the Asian Games 2023, held in Hangzhou, China. India sent its biggest-ever athletics contingent, which comprised 35 men and 33 women, to 68. These men and women proved to be one of the biggest sources of inspiration back home as they broke the record of all previous Asian Games regarding medal count by athletics contingent. They won 29 medals, which included six Gold medals.

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The count of 29 bettered 20 medals won in Jakarta-Palmebang during the previous Asian Games in 2018. However, the Gold medal count of 6 fell two behind the 8 Golds won in the 2018 edition of the Asian Games.


India was ranked third in the athletics medals table at the Asian Games competitions behind hosts China and Bahrain. While China won 19 Gold medals, Bahrain won 10 and India had six in their kitty. But in total medals won, India was only behind China, totalling 39.


India’s notable memorable Gold medal winners


The Javelin Throw Golds

While Neeraj Chopra’s Gold was a sureshot probability, the Gold medal by Annu Rani came out of the blue. Annu threw her season’s best 62.92 meters to clinch the gold medal. Neeraj got tough competition from fellow thrower Kishore Kumar Jena but eventually prevailed by a season’s best throw of 88.88 meters. Jena threw his personal best- 87.54 meters to get the Silver.

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The Come From Behind Gold by Parul Chaudhary


Having secured a silver in the women’s 3000m steeplechase event, Parul Chaudhary went one better as she stole the Gold away from Japan’s Ririka Hironaka as she passed her in the last 20 meters in the women’s 5000m race.


Avinash Sable’s all-out domination

The Gold by Avinash Sable was the only out-and-out Gold that saw India sail through without any trials and tribulations to victory. He was miles ahead of other runners in the 3000m steeple chase, which the commentators colloquially called the Sablechse as the rest of the pack was chasing him.

The Men’s 4x400m relay team’s outrageous Gold

The Indian men’s 4x400m relay team, fresh from their unbelievable showing at the World Athlet8ics Championships 2023, ran one of the great races at the Hangzhou Olympics Centre Stadium. Mohammed Anas Yahiya was slow to start, but Amoj Jacob picked up the pace, and Mohammed Ajmal gave the anchor leg runner Rajesh Ramesh a compressive lead. But the way Ramesh ran was fantabulous. It never looked as if he would be overtaken, and he finished the race in the top position to create a new national record and win the Gold in the men’s 4x400m relay for the first time since 1962. Asian Games.

Tejinderpal Sing Toor writes his thrilling script to win Shot Put Gold

If anyone apart from Neeraj Chopra had the surety of a Gold medal for India in athletics, it was Tejinderpal Singh Toor in the Shot Put. But he fouled his first two throws out of the six allowed and then carded a 19.51 to get into the Bronze medal position. He threw 20 in the fourth. Adile Sumariwala, the president of the Athletics Federation of India,l in a discussion with Sony Sports, said that Toor gave him a heart attack. Having been in the Silver medal position after four throws, Toor fouled the fifth one. But the final throw saw him roar like a lion as he threw a distance of 20.36 to overtake Saudi Arabaia’s Mohammed Tolo’s season-best throw and win the Gold for India.

Full list India medal winners in Athletics at Asian Games 2023


Number
Medal winners
Sport
Event
Medal

1
Kiran Baliyan
Athletics
Women’s shot put
Bronze

2
Karthik Kumar
Athletics
Men’s 10,000m
Silver

3
Gulveer Singh
Athletics
Men’s 10,000m
Bronze

4
Avinash Sable
Athletics
Men’s 3000m steeplechase
Gold

5
Tajinderpal Singh Toor
Athletics
Men’s shot put
Gold

6
Harmilan Bains
Athletics
Women’s 1500m
Silver

7
Ajay Kumar Saroj
Athletics
Men’s 1500m
Silver

8
Jinson Johnson
Athletics
Men’s 1500m
Bronze

9
Nandini Agasara
Athletics
Women’s heptathlon
Bronze

10
Murali Sreeshankar
Athletics
Men’s long jump
Silver

11
Seema Punia
Athletics
Women’s discus throw
Bronze

12
Jyothi Yarraji
Athletics
Women’s 100m hurdles
Silver

13
Parul Chaudhary
Athletics
Women’s 3000m steeplechase
Silver

14
Priti Lamba
Athletics
Women’s 3000m steeplechase
Bronze

15
Ancy Sojan
Athletics
Women’s long jump
Silver

16
Muhammad Ajmal, Vithya Ramraj, Rajesh Ramesh, Subha Venkatesan
Athletics
Mixed 4x400m relay
Silver

17
Vithya Ramraj
Athletics
Women’s 400m hurdles
Bronze

18
Parul Chaudhary
Athletics
Women’s 5000m
Gold

19
Mohammed Afsal
Athletics
Men’s 800m
Silver

20
Praveen Chithravel
Athletics
Men’s triple jump
Bronze

21
Tejaswin Shankar
Athletics
Men’s decathlon
Silver

22
Annu Rani
Athletics
Women’s javelin throw
Gold

23
Manju Rani, Ram Baboo
Athletics
Mixed team race walk
Bronze

24
Harmilan Bains
Athletics
Women’s 800m
Silver

25
Avinash Sable
Athletics
Men’s 5000m
Silver

26
Vithya Ramraj, Aishwarya Kailash Mishra, Prachi, Subha Venkatesan
Athletics
Women’s 4x400m relay
Silver

27
Neeraj Chopra
Athletics
Men’s javelin throw
Gold

28
Kishore Jena
Athletics
Men’s javelin throw
Silver

29
Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi, Rajesh Ramesh
Athletics
Men’s 4x400m relay
Gold

First Published: Oct 08 2023 | 11:49 AM IST

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