Gifu (Japan) June 9 (IANS) India s Anu Kumar won gold in the men s 800 metre event at the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships here on Saturday.
Kumar clocked 1:54.11 to push Iran s Abdolrahim Dorzadeh (1:54.23) to the runners-up spot.
Fuki Torii of Japan took bronze in 1:54.55.
India also bagged a bronze in the men s 4x100m event with the quartet of Prajwal Ravi Akash Kumar Nithin Balakumar and Gurindervir Singh registering a time of 40.75 seconds.
Hosts Japan won the title with Yuki Takagi Daisuke Miyamoto Satoru Fukushima and Justin Junpei Tsukamoto clocking 39.65 seconds.
Chinese Taipei s Lin Yu-tang Wei Tai-sheng Lu Hao-hua and Yeh Shou-po took silver with 39.72 seconds.

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