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AFI Media 30 August 2018 Jakarta (Indonesia). India finished the 2018 Asian Games with a total of 7 gold, 10 silver and 2 bronze medals in Athletics. This was India’s second highest medal tally in Athletics ever at the Asiad, as the contingent finished the final day of athletics action with two gold medals. The women’s 4X400 metre relay team

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AFI Media 26 August 2018 Jakarta (Indonesia). Hima Das added an Asian Games silver to her list of achievements this year after she finished the women’s 400 metres final in Jakarta in a time of 50.79 seconds. It was another national record for the sprinter from Assam, who broke her previous record of 51 seconds that she had set in

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Hima Das created history at the U-20 World Athletics Championships in Tampere, Finland on Thursday, winning the women’s 400m to become the first Indian track athlete to win a gold medal at a global athletic event.  Das clocked 51.46 seconds to beat Romania’s Andrea Miklos who finished a distant second in 52.07 seconds while Taylor Manson of USA trailed further

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Bidding to become the first Indian track athlete to win a medal at the Junior World Championships, Hima Das qualified for the final of the women’s 400m at Tampere on Wednesday. Das won the first of three semifinals in the Ratina Stadium, clocking a time of 52.10 seconds. She however was far slower than her personal best of 51.13 seconds

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TAMPERE (Finland): Indian Sprinter Hima Das made it to the semi-finals of the women’s 400m as the faster runner in the heats on the opening day of the IAAF World Under-20 Athletics Championships on Tuesday The 18-year-old Das, a favourite to ein gold, clocked 52.25 seconds to win heat number four and lead the time charts. Running at lane number

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It is indeed a testament of ones greatness when one rises above the challenges they face, above the age old notion surrounding Indians in a particular discipline- above all of it to emerge as a legit contender for the top spot. Hima Das has managed to do that. Not really famed for their exploits in track athletics, it looks as

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New Delhi. Tipped to bring back an elusive track medal for the country at the World Junior Championships, quarter miler Hima Das will be leading a squad of 31 Indian athletes – 21 men and 10 women — to the IAAF U20 World Junior Championships to be held in the Finnish city of Tampere between 10th and 15th of July

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