{"id":330236,"date":"2023-06-07T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T11:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/laxita-sandila-wins-womens-1500m-gold-at-asian-u-20-athletics-championship-more-sports-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T11:09:49","slug":"laxita-sandila-wins-womens-1500m-gold-at-asian-u-20-athletics-championship-more-sports-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/laxita-sandila-wins-womens-1500m-gold-at-asian-u-20-athletics-championship-more-sports-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Laxita Sandila wins women&#8217;s 1500m gold at Asian U-20 Athletics Championship | More sports News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-100822118,imgsize-94448.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s Laxita Vinod Sandila produced a personal best time of 4:24.23 seconds to win gold medal in women&#8217;s 1500m race on the concluding day of the Asian U-20 Athletics Championships in Yecheon, South Korea on Wednesday.<br \/>Sandila achieved a remarkable feat by surpassing her previous personal best of 4:26.48s by a significant margin of over two seconds, securing India&#8217;s fifth gold medal of the championship.<br \/>Later in the day, the dependable quarter-miler <!-- -->Rezoana Mallick Heena<!-- --> anchored the longer relay (4x400m) team to gold, clocking 3:40.49s. Kazakhstan won silver with a time of 3:46.19 seconds, while Korea (3:47.46s) took the bronze.<br \/>The men&#8217;s 4x400m relay team settled for a silver with a time of 3:08.78 seconds.<br \/>India ended third with 6 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze, behind Japan (14 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze) and China (11 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze).<br \/>Mehdi Hasan<!-- --> claimed a bronze medal in the men&#8217;s 1500m race, completing the event in a commendable time of 3:56.01s. Shivaji Parashu Madappagoudra contributed to India&#8217;s medal haul with a silver medal in the men&#8217;s 5000m race, achieving a time of 14:49.05s, bringing India&#8217;s overall tally to an impressive 17 medals.<br \/>The championship had a promising start for India, as Rezoana Mallick Heena and Bharatpreet Singh shone brightly, each securing a gold medal in the women&#8217;s 400m and men&#8217;s discus throw events, respectively, on the opening day.<br \/>Continuing the winning streak, shot putter <!-- -->Siddharth Choudhary<!-- --> claimed yet another gold medal on Monday, delivering a personal best throw of 19.52m. Decathlete Sunil Kumar also contributed to India&#8217;s gold count, securing a yellow metal on Tuesday.<br \/><span class=\"strong em \">(With PTI Inputs)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isFBCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js', n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };<\/p>\n<p>    function loadGtagEvents(isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      var id = document.getElementById('toi-plus-google-campaign');\n      if (id) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        t.id = 'toi-plus-google-campaign';\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074', n, t, s);\n    };<\/p>\n<p>    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    var TimesApps = window.TimesApps;\n    TimesApps.toiPlusEvents = function(config) {\n      var isConfigAvailable = \"toiplus_site_settings\" in f && \"isFBCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings && \"isGoogleCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings;\n      var isPrimeUser = window.isPrime;\n      if (isConfigAvailable && !isPrimeUser) {\n        loadGtagEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n        loadFBEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isFBCampaignActive);\n      } else {\n        var JarvisUrl=\"https:\/\/jarvis.indiatimes.com\/v1\/feeds\/toi_plus\/site_settings\/643526e21443833f0c454615?db_env=published\";\n        window.getFromClient(JarvisUrl, function(config){\n          if (config) {\n            loadGtagEvents(config?.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n            loadFBEvents(config?.isFBCampaignActive);\n          }\n        })\n      }\n    };\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n  );<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/more-sports\/athletics\/laxita-sandila-wins-womens-1500m-gold-at-asian-u-20-athletics-championship\/articleshow\/100822064.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s Laxita Vinod Sandila produced a personal best time of 4:24.23 seconds to win gold medal in women&#8217;s 1500m race on the concluding day of the Asian U-20 Athletics Championships in Yecheon, South Korea on Wednesday.Sandila achieved a remarkable feat by surpassing her previous personal best of 4:26.48s by a significant margin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[396935,397534,397533,397532,397531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}