Taiwan Athletics Open: Pooja, Annu Rani win gold, Shaili pips Ancy to win silver - Highlights

A double podium finish for India in the women's 800m

Pooja wins gold with a new championship record time of 2:02.79s to edge past her compatriot Twinkle Chaudhary, who clocked 2:06.96s to win the silver medal.

With this, Pooja completed her 800-1500m double, having a championship record in both events.

The women's 800m Final is also about to start

India's Pooja and Twinkle Chaudhary in action

Up Next: - Women's Long Jump Final - Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan

Yashas Palaksha wins the silver medal with a new personal best of 49.22s

Yashas came from behind in a very exciting final to clinch the silver medal, leaving behind the two Japanese hurdlers.

This will be a confidence booster for Yashas, who missed out on the Asian Championships but returned to his first international tournament of the year to clock a new personal best and win the silver medal.

In fact, his time of 49.22s is better than the Asian Championships 2025 silver medalist, Bassem Hemeida of Qatar (49.44s)

Up Next: - Men's 400m Hurdles - Yashas Palaksha

Yashas Palaksha will be aiming to start his 2025 International circuit with a win, but he will be getting a good fight from the two Japanese hurdlers in the final.

Here is the startlist:

(1) An Seong Jung (KOR)

(2) Wu Yu-Ting (TPE)

(3) Chen Jian-Rong (TPE)

(4) Yashas Palaksha (IND)

(5) Yusaku Kodama (JPN)

(6) Tatsuhiro Yamamoto (JPN)

(7) Lin Chung-Wei (TPE)

(8) Chi Chong Cheong (MAC)

Vithya Ramraj wins the 400m hurdles gold medal with a good time of 56.53s

Vithya clocked another sub-57s time of 2025 to win the 400m hurdles title, clocking her third-best time of the year.

This will help her to gain some good ranking points for the World Championships.

Vithya's top three times of 2025

56.04s - Federation Cup Final

56.46s - Asian Championship Final

56.53s - Taiwan Open Final

Rohit Yadav wins the gold medal with the best throw of 74.42m

It wasn't a good outing for Rohit as he could not breach the 75m mark.

However, it was enough for him to win the men's javelin throw gold medal in his first overseas tournament of the year.

Final Standings:

Rohit Yadav (IND) - 74.42m

Huang Shih-Feng (TPE) - 74.04m

Cheng Chao-Tsun (TPE) - 73.95m

Up Next: - Women's 400m hurdles final - Vithya Ramraj

Vithya will be aiming to breach the 56s barrier for the first time this year and clinch some good ranking points for the World Championships qualification mark.

Here is the startlist:

(1) 1051 Ko-Yung Sin (TPE)

(2) 1112 Chiao Ling Lin (TPE)

(3) 1246 Arisa Weruwanarak (THA)

(4) 1278 Isabella Guthrie (AUS)

(5) 1092 Lo Pei-Lin (TPE)

(6) 1225 V. RAMRAJ (IND)

(7) 1017 ZHONG Xin-Ru (TPE)

(8) 1040 Liou Yu-Jhen (TPE)

Another poor throw of 70.34m from Rohit, but he still maintains his lead in final

At the halfway stage:

Rohit Yadav (IND) - 74.25m

Huang Shih-Feng (TPE) - 74.04m

Cheng Chao-Tsun (TPE) - 67.34m

Wachirawit Sornwichai (THA) -  65.91m

Rohit improves his mark to 74.25m on the second attempt

This also helped him to take the overall lead in the final after two attempts.