TAIPEI CITY, JUN 6 (PTI): Long jumper Shaili Singh and the women’s 4x100m relay team won a gold medal each while Tejas Shirse bagged a silver in the 110m hurdles, as all the Indian athletes in the fray returned with a medal on the opening day of the New Taipei City Athletics Open here on Saturday.
Shaili was not at her best as she jumped 6.24m, but that was enough for her to take the top spot. She could not go nowhere near her season’s best of 6.58m, which she had recorded while winning silver at the Federation Cup last month. Her personal best remains 6.76m, set in 2023.
The Indian women’s 4x100m relay quartet of SS Sneha, Srabani Nanda, Sudeshna Shivankar and Tamanna ran 44.07 seconds to win the gold and equal the meet record.
The national record holder Shirse clocked 13.58 seconds in the men’s 110m hurdles final. Chinese Taipei’s 20-year-old Hsieh Yuan-kai claimed the gold with a time of 13.57 seconds.
The last day of the meet is on Sunday.
