Asian Athletics C’ships: 4 medals by 3 U.P. athletes on final day help India finish third
Hindustan TimesThis Sunday proved excellent for Uttar Pradesh in sports as four athletes from the state won three silver and a bronze medal in four separate events at the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. Meerut’s Priyanka Goswami after winning silver in 20-km race walk at Asian Athletics meet in Bangkok on Sunday. Even before gold medalist steeplechaser from Meerut Parul Chaudhary could win her second medal -- silver in the 5000-metre track event on Sunday that she completed in 15 minutes and 52.35 seconds -- her city mate and Olympian Priyanka Goswami bagged silver in the 20-km race walk in a time of 1:34:24. The day’s final silver medal from an Uttar Pradesh athlete came in women’s 800-metre in which Mirzapur’s KM Chanda finished second as she crossed the finish line of the two-lap race in 2 minutes and 1.58 seconds, behind MK Dissanayaka of Sri Lanka.