Abdulla strikes gold in World Athletics Continental Tour meet in Japan 

Abdulla Aboobacker who gained the boys’s triple bounce gold.
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Abdulla Aboobacker, the Commonwealth Video games silver medallist who had been struggling to cross 16m in two meets early this season, gained the boys’s triple bounce gold on the 57th Oda Mikio memorial athletics meet in Hiroshima on Saturday.

The 27-year-old Indian produced his greatest, 16.31m, in his final effort to complete forward of Australian champion Hinson Aiden (16.18m) within the World Athletics Continental Tour-Bronze occasion in Japan.

Abdulla had gained the Commonwealth Video games silver with 17.02m final 12 months, however this season he might solely handle 15.93 and 15.77 whereas ending third within the two home meets he competed in March.

In the meantime, Ankita stunningly bettered her private greatest by greater than 20s (earlier greatest 15:55.15s) whereas ending fifth within the 5000m clocking 15:33.24.

That noticed the 21-year-old comfortably obtain the Athletics Federation of India’s Asian Video games qualification ‘guideline’ of 15:49.00. Kenya’s Teresiah Muthoni, the under-20 World champion, gained the gold in 15:13.41.

Within the males’s 3000m steeple chase, Balkishan was tenth with 8:47.71s.