Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Highlights, Day 1: Tajinderpal Singh Toor Breaks National Record To Win Back-To-Back Gold

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

We fold our Live coverage for the day on that note! Do join us tomorrow afternoon as the action begins 12 noon onwards with women's event while plenty of Indians are fray for medals!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live: Men's 60M Hurdles final result

The official result is out and Tejas Shirse clocks a 7.80 seconds to finish fifth in the 60m hurdles final. The timing is slower than his heat 2 timing of 7.75 seconds. Kazakhstan's David Yefremov claims the gold medal with a timing of 7.60 seconds.

Tejas Shirse finishes fifth!

It looks like Tejas Shirse finishes fifth as four runners almost run parallelly ahead of him for a photo finish! We will await the official confirmation

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

They are going to restart the race as Iraq's Salih Nasser is at fault for the restart. The Iraqi is disqualified from the final!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

60m hurdles final is all set to start!

Men's 60m Hurdles Final

The men's 60m hurdles final is all set to begin as Tejas Shirse trains on the track while Tajinderpal Singh Toor collects his gold medal at the back!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live Updates

Men's 60m hurdles final yet to start

Men's 60m hurdles final

The men's 60m hurdles final is going to start shortly as hurdles have been placed on the track upon the completion of the men's long jump final!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

It may take some time before the 60m hurdles final begins as the focus is currently on the men's long jump final with no Indian representation in it!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

Men's 1500m final: Asian Games silver medallist Ajay Kumar Saroj finished sixth with a timing of 3:52.56 seconds

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

Men's shotput final: No medal for Dhanveer Singh as he finishes fourth behind Ivan Ivanov (Kazakhstan) and Mehdi Saberi (Iran)

Stay tuned as Tejas Shirse will be in action in the 60m hurdles final soon!

GOLD MEDAL ALERT!

Tajinderpal Singh Toor clinches the gold medal despite fouling his final attempt, His best of the day is 19.72m, a new indoor national record! Dhanveer Singh meanwhile takes the bronze medal with an effort of 18.59m!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

Dhanvir Singh throws 18.59m in his final attempt to become the front-runner for the bronze medal spot! Tajinderpal Singh Toor yet to make his final attempt but the gold medal is more or less confirmed!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live: Men's Shot put final

Tajinderpal Singh Toor continues to lead the pack with his 19.72m as his fourth attempt yields a 19.27m. Dhanveer Singh remains fourth with an attempt of 18.35m while the bronze medal spot requires an 18.45m throw!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

We are unable to track the result of the men's 1500m final with Ajay Kumar Saroj competing in it due to a technical glitch. We will bring you the result from that race as soon as available

Correction

Tajinderpal Singh Toor hurled a 19.72 metre throw for the new national record and not 19.74 metre as posted earlier. Apologies for the error

NATIONAL RECORD ALERT!

New indoor national record by Tajinderpal Singh Toor! The Asian shot put king throws a 19.74m to go past Vikash Gowda's 19-year-old record of 19.60m!

Men's shot put final

Tajinderpal Singh Toor fouls his first attempt while Dhanvir Singh starts with an 18.04 metre throw to put himself in the second spot early on behind Iran's Mehdi Sarebi, who hurls the put to 18.74m.

Given the quality of Tajinderpal Singh Toor, capable of going past 21m, the Indian is one good throw away from winning the gold medal

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

Men's 1500m final is about to start with Ajay Kumar Saroj (in blue) contending for a gold medal after a silver at the Asian Games last year

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

The men's shot put final is underway! Dhanvir Singh is third in the order while reigning champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor is seventh to throw in the 8-athlete final!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

Tejas Shirse clocks a new personal best of 7.75 seconds! He is through to the final later today! He is now within striking distance of Siddharth Thingalaya's indoor national record of 7.70 seconds!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

The heat 2 is over and by the looks of it Tejas Shirse has finished a close second following a good recovery as he hit the second hurdle after the start! Timings to be updated soon

Tejas Shirse in action

The second heat of 60m hurdles is all set to start with Tejas Shirse at Lane 6. His personal best is a 7.94 seconds at this very event last year. He couldn't go beyond the heats with that effort last year and will have to improve his personal best significantly for an impact as the heat 1 had a top speed of 7.80 seconds

Evening session begins

The evening session begins with 60m hurdles while Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Dhanvir Singh are competing in the shot put final as well. Updates to follow!

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There's a delay in the start of the evening session as no athletes are out on the track yet but are expected to be out soon! Do remember, Tejas Shirse will be in action first in the heat 2 of the 60m hurdles

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Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

Men's shot put line-up with Asian king Tajinderpal Singh Toor hunting another continental glory while Dhanvir Singh will look to make an impression!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

The evening session hasn't got underway yet from the looks of it! Tejas Shirse will be competing in the heat 2 of the men's 60m hurdles

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live

Hello and welcome back to the Live coverage of Day 1's evening session of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live. Plenty of Indians to be in action soon, beginning with Tejas Sirse.

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Day 1 Morning session ends

That's all from our Live coverage of the morning session of the opening day of theAsian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran. MyKhel will return later today for the evening session with Tejas Shirse competing in the men's 60m hurdles heat at 6:30 PM IST. Do join us for all the Live action!

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 Live: No medal in long jump

India finish without a medal in the women's long jump final as Shaili Singh and Nayana James finished fifth and sixth respectively. Shaili matched her best effort on the day at 6.27m in her last jump while Nayana could only manage a 6.05m in her last

China's Shiqi Xiong takes the gold medal of her final attempt as she jumps a 6.55m