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Indian heptathletes win silver, bronze

Indian heptathletes Soma Biswas and J J Shobha won silver and bronze medals at the Asian Games on Saturday.

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Updated : Sep 18, 2017, 06:02 PM IST

DOHA: Indian women athletes picked two silver and a bronze medal at the Asian Games here on Saturday with heptathletes Soma Biswas and J J Shobha finishing second and third respectively and half-miler Santhi Soundarajan ending up second.

Soma logged 5675 points in the seven-event discipline held over two days while national record holder Shobha accumulated 5662 points to finish behind gold medal winner Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan (5955).

Shobha fell well below her personal and India best of 6211 points she had created in March 2004 at Delhi.

Santhi ran a well-judged though slow race to pick up the silver in the women's 800m clocking 2 minutes, 3.16 seconds.

The gold went to Mariam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain who romped home in 2:01.79 and the bronze was claimed by Kazakhistan's Viktoriya Yalovtseva in 2:03.19.

But Shiv Shankar Yadav finished a poor seventh out of 12 competitors in the men's long jump final with 7.64 metres as his best in six attempts out of which three were fouls. His qualifying round effort was 7.51 m.

The event was won by Saudi Arabia's Al Saba Hussain Taher with a leap of 8.02 m.

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