India added nine more medals to their tally in Asian Games 2023 on Day 10 with Parul Chaudhary and Annu Rani starring with Gold medals in women's 5000m race and javelin throw, respectively. The tally for India now stands at 69 as it finds on heels of scripting Asian Games history.
Annu Rani won her first-ever Gold medal in her career as she bettered her bronze from the 2014 Asian Games and 2022 Commonwealth Games, in Hangzhou. Annu finished with no medal in the Jakarta Games in 2018 in a massive turnaround as she threw her personal best of 62.92m.
During the qualification round for the final, the national record holder finished as the eighth best. Her best throw at that time was 59.60m.
Annu began with a 50.35m throw and improved it to 53.19m in her second attempt in Group A, which had 14 contenders apart from her.
Despite not breaching the stiff qualifying mark of 64.00m, Annu Rani's strong ranking of World No. 11 has helped her bag quota spot as just 15 throwers could earn the direct qualification.
Triple Jumper Arpinder Singh was excluded from the TOPS scheme while 400m runners MR Poovamma, Nirmal Noah Tom, Alex Anthony included in the scheme along with javelin thrower Annu Rani.
Annu, who on Monday smashed her own national record with a 62.43m throw, could only produce a best of 61.12m in the final round competition on Tuesday.
After shattering her own national record, Annu Rani entered the final of the javelin event in the World Athletics Championships.
27-year-old Annu Rani sent the iron spear to a distance of 62.43m in the second round, bettering her earlier national record of 62.34m.
Incheon: Indian track and field athletes performed on expected lines with a creditable haul of 13 medals though lacking in gold count while a few big names bit the dust in the Asian Games here.Four
Incheon, South Korea: Annu Rani, the 22-year-old national record holder, bagged the bronze medal in Women's Javelin Throw Final at the 17th Asian Games here Wednesday.t was Annu Rani's throw of 59.53m in the first
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