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India have clinched their second gold at the Asian Athletics Championships, being played in Wuhan, China, after Lalita Babar won the Gold in the 3000m steeplechase event on Saturday with a timing of 9:34.13. This is India’s only second gold, after Inderjeet Singh, who finished o top of the podium, in the Shot Put event on Day One of the competition.
The result also holds a larger significance as Babar, courtesy, her gold-winning effort has also qualified for the IAAF World Championships in Beijing that is slated to be held later this year and 2016 Rio Olympics next year.
The 26-year-old Maharashtra-based athlete has had a good last 12 months, where she also clinched the bronze in the same event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, that were held in Glasgow, with a timing of 9:35.37 and in the process of the effort, also went the national record that was held by Sudha Singh of 9:47.70.
