NEW DELHI: Indian athletes continue their good run at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan on Sunday after Jyothi Yarraji and Jeswin Aldrin won a silver medal each in the women's 60m hurdles and men's long jump events respectively.
In the process, both Yarraji and Aldrin also smashed their own national indoor records.
Yarraji bettered her previous national indoor record of 8.16 sec she created on Saturday during the heats. She clocked 8.13 sec on Sunday to finish behind Japan's Masumi Aoki (8.01 sec).
Aldrin produced a best jump of 7.97m to finish behind Lon Yu Tang (8.02m) of Chinese Taipei in the final. He had jumped 7.93m in qualification on Friday, which was his national indoor record before being broken on Sunday.
Pavithra Vengatesh and Rosy Meena won a silver and a bronze respectively in the women's pole vault event on Saturday.
On Friday, India had won four medals with a gold from shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor. The other medal winners on Friday were Karanveer Singh (shot put), Praveen Chitravel (triple jump) and Swapna Burman (pentathlon).
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