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Sarvesh Kushare and Ancy Sojan secure silver medals at Asian Games

Hindustan Times18h
THE BRIEF
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Sarvesh Anil Kushare and Ancy Sojan both won silver medals in high jump and long jump respectively at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya.

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Kushare cleared 2.25m but lost the gold on countback to Chinese Taipei's Fu Chao-hsuan, while Sojan was surpassed in the final round by China's Huang Yingying with a 6.55m jump.

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Tejaswin Shankar added a bronze in decathlon with 7,934 points, and Parul Chaudhary claimed bronze in the women's 3000m steeplechase with a national record time of 9:08.67.