{"id":301836,"date":"2018-08-26T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301836"},"modified":"2018-08-26T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T14:59:01","slug":"asian-games-2018-hima-das-muhammed-anas-win-silver-in-400m-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-hima-das-muhammed-anas-win-silver-in-400m-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: Hima Das, Muhammed Anas win silver in 400m race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301837 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hima-anas-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hima-anas-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hima-anas-696x371.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hima-anas.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/>Indian sprinters\u00a0Hima Das\u00a0and\u00a0Muhammed Anas on Sunday won silver medals in women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s\u00a0400m\u00a0race in the ongoing\u00a0Asian Games at Jakarta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Das finished second on the podium in women&#8217;s\u00a0400m event with a national record timing of 50.59 seconds while Salwa Naser of Bahrain won gold with a new games record timing of 50.09 seconds. Elina Mikhina of Kazakhstan won the bronze with a timing of 52.63 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Muhammed Anas clinched the silver in the same event in men&#8217;s category with a timing of 45.69 seconds, while Abdalelah Hassan of Qatar bagged the gold medal with a timing of 44.89 seconds and Ali Khamis of Bahrain won the Bronze with the timing of 45.70 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congratulating Hima and Anas for their performance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, \u201cOne of India\u2019s most admired athletes @HimaDas8 bags the coveted Silver in the Women\u2019s 400m Final. India rejoices in her glory. Congratulations to her and all the best for her future endeavours. @asiangames2018.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;My young friend @muhammedanasyah brings home a Silver in the Men\u2019s 400m event. Good to see our athletes performing well in track events. #AsianGames2018,&#8221; PM said in another tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India&#8217;s total medal tally at the Asian games 2018 now stands at 36 with seven gold, ten silver, and nineteen bronze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian sprinters\u00a0Hima Das\u00a0and\u00a0Muhammed Anas on Sunday won silver medals in women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s\u00a0400m\u00a0race in the ongoing\u00a0Asian Games at Jakarta. Das finished second on the podium in women&#8217;s\u00a0400m event with a national record timing of 50.59 seconds while Salwa Naser of Bahrain won gold with a new games record timing of 50.09 seconds. Elina Mikhina of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4400,4397,3607,4287,4398,4399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301842,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301836\/revisions\/301842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}