Asian Athletics Championships Day 4: Mixed relay team wins gold, Sarvesh Kushare wins High Jump silver — Highlights

Long Jump: Sreeshankar reclaims gold medal spot

Sree jumps back into the lead by the tiniest fraction after his third jump of 8.12m. India in gold medal positions in both Long Jump and High Jump as things stand - Sreeshankar and Sarvesh!

Tejaswin Shankar eliminated

Sarvesh is holding on to the High Jump gold even as we enter serious territory with the bar set at 2.19m. Tejaswin fails to cross 2.15m and is eliminated. He has to be content with just the Decathlon bronze.

High Jump: Sarvesh in gold medal spot

Sarvesh is in gold medal spot after the 2.10 mark. The tired Tejaswin, who had some trouble at 2.05, has continued to keep pace with him, he is currently 5th. Both are set to to drop with the introduction of two jumpers in the later stages, but signs are good for Sarvesh to clinch at least a bronze here!

Sreeshankar has meanwhile dropped down to silver spot in Long Jump after 2 out of 6 attempts. Looks like this could be a tight one too.

Santosh Kumar Tamilarasan wins bronze in 400m hurdles

Medal alert! Santosh Kumar Tamilarasan inches into the bronze medal spot in the last second to win the first medal of the day for India!

Long Jump: Sreeshankar jumps 8.10m

Sree starts with a bang! A 8.10m jump takes him to gold medal spot after the first jump. Two other jumpers - from China and Taipei - also jump more than 8. Sree still holds on to first spot.

In High jump, Sarvesh and Tejaswin are two Indians in a field of 9 athletes.

Swapna Barman finishes 2nd in Javelin, remains in Heptathlon silver spot

Swapna throws 51.09 in her second attempt. She is the only one to cross 50m other than the Uzbek, who has tightened her grip on the gold with this 1st place finish in javelin. One last event left for the hepathletes - 800m. Swapna will look to hold on to the silver.

Swapna Barman fouls, gold medal hopes look distant

Ekaterina Voronina of Uzbekistan throws the javelin to 51.87m. That should give her a huge lead over Swapna. Swapna has a foul throw in her first attempt. Looks like she will do well to now stay ahead of Japan's Yuki Yamasaki to hold on to 2nd spot in the overall heptathlon standings.

Afternoon session: Can Swapna Barman inch into gold medal spot?

The second last event, Javelin, is up in the Women's Heptathlon now. Swapna Barman is in second spot. The javelin is one of her stronger suits. 

Moment of the 2023 AAC so far

Jyothi Yarraji has been in supreme form over the last year, but the tag of Asian champion sounds especially nice. Especially given that politicians and social media influencers have been lining up to make some content on her in the last 2 days ever since her 100m hurdles gold.

Up on the podium after her 100m hurdles final, Jyothi tried her hardest but eventually let a tear fall as the Indian anthem played.

Day 4 Schedule

Swapna Barman will have her events coming up in the afternoon session. The jumpers to come in soon after that.