Sinimole Paulose wins 1500m bronze

Doha, Dec 12 (UNI) India's Sinimole Paulose ran a brave race in a very strong 1500m field and finished with the Bronze, while the 4x100m women relay team failed on the last day of the athletics competition of the Asian Games here today.

Sinimole, the 23-year-old Kerala runner, finished third with a time of 4:15.09 in a race which was won by favourite Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain (4:08.63) followed by Japan's Yuriko Kobayashi who took the Silver in 4:14.96 .

Sinimole had earlier finished fifth in 800m race in which she had clocked her personal best of 2:03.76.

This evening, she, however, could not match her 1500m best of 4:14.7 which she had timed at Colombo earlier this year.

Still it was a very determined effort by the dimunitive runner who showed no sign of awe while running along side the best of the continent.

Sinimole ran a technical race. She paced herself well and in the last round got herself among the medal winners and managed to pip Vietnam's Thanh Hang Troung for the Bronze. Troung clocked personal best of 4:17.66 for the fourth place.

However, India's medal hopes in women's 4x100m relay were shattered when the quartet of Jyothi Manjunath, Deepthi Jose, Nidhi and Poonam Tomar clocked season's best of 46.29 only to finish fifth.

The Indians lost the medal because of their technical fault. They had a false start and were warned and that effected their next start which was bit late and that made all the difference.

China took the Gold with a season best timing of 44.33, followed by Japan (44.87) and Chinese Taipei (45.86).

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