Chopra to Sable: Full list of medal winners in Athletics at Asian Games

India won a total of 29 medals which included six Gold, 14 Silver and nine Bronze medals. Each of those six Golds had Indians standing up on their feet and applauding in disbelief.

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