India’s Pooja Singh cleared 1.93m in women’s high jump to break a 14-year-old national record and win gold at the Asian U20 Athletics Championships 2026 in Hong Kong.
At the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships, Indian Army athletes excel.
The 26-year-old Gulveer clocked 28 minutes 38.63 seconds to win the gold on Tuesday. With this feat, Gulveer became only the third Indian man in the history of the Asian Athletics Championships to win a gold medal in the 10,000m event, after Hari Chand (1975) and G. Lakshmanan (2017).
For India who overall finished third, this was their joint-highest tally at the Asian championships alongside Bhubaneswar 2017 where they had won nine gold, six silver and 12 bronze.
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Toor heaved his best throw of the day on his second attempt to retain his continental title.
With today's five medals, India's medal tally has gone up to six- Three Gold, Three Bronze. Abhishek Pal had won a bronze in 10,000m on Wednesday.
Chitra defended the title she had won in the 2017 edition to give India its third gold medal while Ajay Kumar Saroj (men's 1500m) and the women's 4x400m relay team clinched a silver each at the Khalifa Stadium.
With the five medals on Monday, India's medal tally stood at 2 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze. India had won 2 silver and 3 bronze on the first day on Sunday.
