Chanda wins 800m silver

And it's silver for Chanda too. She too ran the eventual gold medallist from Sri Lanka close but fell behind in the last 100 metres. Silver for India in both the 800m races - Chanda and Krishan Kumar.

Damayanthi Darsha (200m🥈in 1993)Tharushi Karunaratne (800m🥇in 2023)After 30 years, a schoolgirl has won a medal for Sri Lanka in the Asian Athletics Championship and her timing of 2:00.66 is a NEW National and AAC record, and the fastest timing in Asia for 800m this year😍 pic.twitter.com/wCc65sfgFQ
— Akhila Seneviratne (@AkhilaSene97) July 16, 2023

KM Chanda wins silver medal in Women's 800m with her PB timing of 2:01.58 mins (same PB as previous one). Incredible performance!! 🥈👏👏#AsianAthleticsChampionships2023 pic.twitter.com/mUihImqawj
— info (@info90582) July 16, 2023

Update: 2023-07-16 09:27 GMT

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