Inderjeet Singh, Jinson Johnson won gold at Asian Athletics Grand Prix
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Who: Inderjeet Singh and Jinson Johnson
What: Won
When: 23 June 2015
Inderjit won the gold in Shot Put by throwing 19.83 meters while Johnson won the gold in 800 meter event with a time of 1:48.52.
This was Inderjeet's second gold in an international event in June 2015, having won the shot put event at the Asian Championships in Wuhan, China on 3 June 2015.
In the first leg, India won a total of eight medals which included 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 5 Bronze medals. The list is as follows:
Athlete
|
Medal
|
Event
|
---|---|---|
Inderjit Singh
|
Gold
|
Shot Put (men)
|
Jinson Johnson
|
Gold
|
800 meter (men)
|
Ankit Sharma
|
Silver
|
Long Jump (men)
|
M Gomathi
|
Bronze
|
800 meter (women)
|
Rajiv Arokya
|
Bronze
|
400 meter (men)
|
MR Poovamma
|
Bronze
|
400 meter (women)
|
Sarbani Nanda
|
Bronze
|
100 meter (women)
|
Gayathry Govindraj
|
Bronze
|
110 meter hurdles (women)
|
The gold medallist of an individual event will get 1500 US dollars while the silver and bronze winners will pocket 800 US dollars and 500 US dollars, respectively.
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