India concluded their campaign at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Gumi, South Korea, with a strong overall performance, finishing second in the medals tally. The Indian contingent secured a total of 24 medals, which included 8 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze medals.
China with 32 medals finished ahead of India in the medal charts.
On the final day of the event, India added six more medals to their tallly, 3 silver and 3 bronze. However, the team couldn’t clinch any gold on the last day.
The highlight of the final day was men’s javelin throw. In the men’s final, India’s second-best thrower after Neeraj Chopra, Sachin Yadav, delivered a good performance, clinching the silver medal with a personal best of 85.16m. It was Sachin’s debut international event, and he made it memorable by securing his maiden international medal. Unfortunately, he missed the direct qualification mark for the World Athletics Championships by just 0.34m.
The field of the final was tight with Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, along with strong contenders from Japan and Sri Lanka, in the fray. Sachin overcame the challenges from the Japanese and Sri Lankan athletes to finish second, while Nadeem, the Paris 2024 Olympic gold medallist, took the gold with a throw of 86.40m. Japan’s Sakiyama claimed the bronze with a throw of 83.75m. Another Indian javelin thrower, Yash Vir Singh, also reached the finals and finished fifth with a personal best throw of 82.57m.
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Parul Chaudhary clinched silver in the women’s 5000m with an impressive timing of 15:15.33s, marking her second medal at the Asian Athletics Championships 2025. Earlier, she had secured silver in the 3000m steeplechase, setting a new personal best.
Animesh Kujur, the 200m national record holder, won a bronze medal, clocking a personal best of 20.32s. This remarkable run set a new national record and made him only the second Indian male sprinter ever to win a 200m medal at the Asian Championships.
Pooja also added a second medal to her tally, claiming bronze in the women’s 800m with her personal best of 2:01.89, finishing just behind China’s Wu and Japan’s Kubo. She had earlier won silver in the 1500m. Meanwhile, Twinkle Chaudhary narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth with a time of 2:02.33.
Vithya Ramraj secured bronze in the women’s 400m hurdles, clocking 56.46s, and became only the fifth Indian woman to win a medal in the event at the Asian Championships.
India’s women’s 4×100m relay team clinched silver with a strong performance. The quartet of Srabani Nanda, S.S. Sneha, Abhinaya Natarajan and Nithya Gandhe finished second with a timing of 43.86s, just behind the Chinese team.
Here’s the full list of medal winners at the Asian Athletics Championship 2025
Gold medal winners
- Gulveer Singh – Men’s 10,000m
- Rupal Chaudhary, Santosh Kumar, Vishal TK, Subha Venkatesan – Mixed 4x400m Relay
- Avinash Sable – Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
- Jyothi Yarraji – Women’s 100m Hurdles
- Jisna Mathew, Rupal Chaudhary, Kunja Rajitha, Subha Venkatesan – Women’s 4x400m Relay
- Gulveer Singh – Men’s 5000m
- Pooja – Women’s High Jump
- Nandini Agasara – Heptathlon
Silver medal winners
- Rupal Chaudhary – Women’s 400m
- Pooja – Women’s 1500m
- Tejaswin Shankar – Decathlon
- Praveen Chithravel – Men’s Triple Jump
- Jay Kumar, Dharmveer Choudhary, Manu Thekkinalil Saji, Vishal TK – Men’s 4x400m Relay
- Ancy Soja – Women’s Long Jump
- Parul Chaudhary – Women’s 3000m Steeplechase
- Sachin Yadav – Men’s Javelin Throw
- Parul Chaudhary – Women’s 5000m
- Srabani Nanda, Abhinaya Rajarajan, Sneha SS, Nithya Gandhe – Women’s 4x100m Relay
Bronze medal winners
- Servin Sebastian – Men’s 20km Race Walk
- Yoonus Shah – Men’s 1500m
- Shaili Singh – Women’s Long Jump
- Animesh Kujur – Men’s 200m
- Vithya Ramraj – Women’s 400m Hurdles
- Pooja – Women’s 800m
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