India’s mixed relay bronze upgraded to silver at Asian Games after Sri Lanka disqualified for lane infringement

The Indian 4x400m mixed relay team won silver at the Asian Games on Monday to take the country’s medal haul from the track and field to 16. It wasn’t a straightforward conclusion though, as they had initially been declared bronze medal winners before second-placed Sri Lanka were disqualified due to lane infringement.

Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi, Vithya Ramraj, Rajesh Ramesh and Subha Venkatesan ran the race with a total time of 3:14.34s. The gold medal winning Bahraini team registered a time of 3:14.02s while bronze medallists Kazakhstan ran the race in 3:24.85. Sri Lanka had initially registered a time of 3:14.25s before being disqualified.

Earlier in the day, India picked a silver and a bronze in the women’s 3000m steeplechase event while Ancy Sojan won silver in women’s long jump. Parul Chaudhary won silver and Priti snatched bronze in a rather exciting finish to the battle for third spot. Bahraini world champion Winfred Yavi took gold medal and smashed the Asian Games record as well. Yavi registered a time of 9:18.28 while Parul registered a new personal best of 9:27.63. It was almost a photo finish for Priti against Bahrain’s Getnet Mekonnen and she registered a new personal best as well of 9:43.32.