Asian U20 Athletics Championships 2024: Indian athletes finish the competition with 30 medals, including seven gold

Indian athletes added 12 more medals on the final day of the Asian U20 Athletics Championships 2024 to end the campaign with a total of 30 medals, including seven gold, 11 silver, and 12 bronze medals.

Notably, India finished at the top spot in the medal tally. The current season’s tally is 11 medals better than the previous Championships for India as they finished at the top spot for the first time in the Championships' history.

Earlier, they secured the second spot in the 1992 and 1996 U20 Athletics Championships - their previous best. Meanwhile, China secured 29 medals, finishing at the second spot with 16 gold, 10 silver, and three bronze medals. Japan clinched the third spot with 19 medals - 7 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze medals.

Moving into the details of the last day, the Indian women's 4x400m team secured the only gold medal of the day, clocking 3:41.50 seconds. Meanwhile, the men's team settled for the silver medal with a timing of 3:09.36 seconds.

Defending 1500m champion Laxita Vinod Sandilea secured her second medal, clinching the silver with a timing of 4:25.63 seconds. Ekta Dey also clinched her second medal (silver) after clocking 16:49.70 seconds in the 5000m event. Her colleague Sunita Devi took the bronze medal with 16:52.54 seconds.

On the other hand, Gaurav Bhaskar Bhosale secured the silver medal in the men’s 3000m event with 8:31.20 seconds while Vikas Kumar secured a bronze with 8:33.00 seconds.

Unnathi Aiyappa settled for a bronze medal in the women’s 100m hurdles with 13.65 seconds while Sabita Tappo booked the seventh spot with 14.49 seconds. Interestingly, the 4x100m relay women’s and men’s teams finished in the third spot to clinch bronze medals. Furthermore, Dev Kumar Meena grabbed the bronze medal in the pole vault with 5.10m.

A look at the final medal tally

S.no	Athlete	Event	Medal
1	Deepanshu Sharma	Men's javelin throw	Gold
2	Anurag Singh Kaler	Men's shot put	Gold
3	Ekta Dey	Women's 3,000m steeplechase	Gold
4	Ranvir Ajay Singh	Men's 3,000m steeplechase	Gold
5	Pavana Nagaraj	Women's long jump	Gold
6	Harshit Kumar	Hammer Throw	Gold
7	Women's team	Women's 4x400m relay	Gold
8	Laxita Vinod Sandilea	Women's 1500m	Silver
9	Ekta Dey	Women's 5000m	Silver
10	Gaurav Bhaskar Bhosale	Men's 3000m	Silver
11	Mixed relay team	Mixed 4x400m relay	Silver
12	Ritik Rathee	Men's discus throw	Silver
13	Rohan Yadav	Men's javelin throw	Silver
14	Priyanshu	Men's 1500m	Silver
15	Amanat Kamboj	Women’s discus throw	Silver
16	Vinod Singh	Men's 5000m	Silver
17	Men's team	Men's 4x400 relay	Silver
18	Laxita Vinod Sandilea	Women's 800m	Silver
19	Aarti	Women's 10,000m race walk	Bronze
20	Aman Choudhary	Men's 400m	Bronze
21	Siddharth Choudhary	Men's shot put	Bronze
22	Prateek	Hammer Throw	Bronze
23	Shreeya Rajesh	Women's 400m hurdles	Bronze
24	Vikas Kumar Bind	Men's 3000m	Bronze
25	Unnathi Aiyappa	Women's 100m hudles	Bronze
26	Dev Kumar Meena	Men's Pole Vault	Bronze
27	Sunita Devi	Women's 5000m	Bronze
28	Mohammad Atta Sazid	Men's long jump	Bronze
29	Men's team	4x100m	Bronze
30	Women's team	4x100m	Bronze

About Asian U20 Athletics Championships

It’s important to note that a total of 60 Indian athletes - 31 men and 29 women competed at the Asian U20 Athletics Championships 2024.

The championships were also a qualifying campaign for the World U20 Athletics Championships, which will take place in Lima, Peru from August 27 to 31.

Notably, in the Asian U20 Athletics Championships 2023, India clinched 19 medals to finish at the third spot in the medal tally, behind Japan and the People’s Republic of China.