India finish 17th in Commonwealth Youth Games with silver, two bronze medals on last day
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Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago): With three medals in athletics on the final day—a silver and two bronze—India finished the eight-day Commonwealth Youth Games on a high note, taking 17th place in the medal standings.
Asha Kiran Barla took home the silver medal in the girls' 800m on Thursday's final day of competition, while Pooja earned the bronze in the girls' high jump and Arjun came in third in the boys' javelin throw.
Earlier, swimmer Shoan Ganguly won silver in the boys' 400m individual medley while Sasi Anupriya claimed bronze in the girls' shot put, both medals coming on August 7 as the contingent comprising 12 boys and 12 girls finished with five medals in all.
Asha Kiran Barla finished second in the girls' 800m in 2 minutes 04.99 seconds, ending behind England's Phoebe Gill who set a Commonwealth Youth Games record of 2 minutes 02.30 seconds, improving on the record of 2:04.23 set by South Africa's Caster Semenya in the Commonwealth Youth Games edition in Pune in 2008. Australia's Fleur Cooper took the bronze medal in 2:05.86.
In the boys' javelin throw, India's Arjun finished third with a distance of 65.94, which he achieved in the first of his six attempts. South Africa's Willem Schalk Jacobus Jansen (79.85m) and Tom Rutter of England, who covered a distance of 67.54m
In the girls' high jump, India's Pooja finished joint third with a leap of 1.75 metres along with Australia's Izobelle Louison-Roe, Pooja crossed 1.75m in her fifth attempt while Izobelle did that in the fourth. Pooja attempted 1.78m in her sixth jump but failed to cross the bar while the Australian went for 1.81 but could not manage it.
With inputs from IANS