World Athletics U20 Championships 2024: India’s results and medal winners - full list
India sent 43 athletes to compete at Lima 24. With bronze in the women's 10,000m race walk, Aarti won India’s only medal at the four-day competition. Get results and medal tally.
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The World Athletics U20 Championships 2024 in Lima, Peru, ran from August 28-31 with India fielding 43 Indian athletes, comprising 23 men and 20 women, for the four-day track and field competition.
The Indian contingent returned with one medal, a bronze, won by Aarti with a U20 national record. She clocked 44:39.39 in the women’s 10,000m race walk.
Indian athletes broke a few other national records as well.
Sharuk Khan (men's 3000m steeplechase) and Pooja Singh (women's high jump) both set national U20 records to in their respective events. Sharuk Khan then broke his own record in the final.
The men’s 4x400m relay team of Rihan Chaudhary, Ankul, Abiram Pramod and Jay Kumar too set an U20 national record in the heats to qualify for the final. The Indian quartet missed out on the medal after finishing sixth in the final.
The women's 4x100m relay team too see a new national U20 record but the effort was't enough to make the cut for the final.
All seven gold medallists from the Asian U20 Athletics Championships, held in Dubai in April were in action at Lima 2024. Asian U20 champions Dipanshu Sharma (javelin throw), Anurag Singh Kaler (shot put) and Ranvir Singh (3000m steeplechase) were among India’s top prospects in Lima but could not finish on the podium.
Bapi Hansda, India’s first silver medallist in boys 400m hurdles at the Asian Youth Athletics Championships, raced in his first competitive event since June this year and finished 46th in the 400m heats with a timing of 51.26s. The 18-year-old Indian sprinter had missed the Asian U20 Athletics Championships in April.
Two years ago, India won two silver (Selva Thirumaran in triple jump and mixed 4x400m relay) and one bronze medal (Rupal Chaudhary in 400m) at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.
World Athletics U20 Championships 2024: India’s team
Men: Bapi Hansda (400m, 4x400m relay), Jay Kumar (400m, 4x400m relay), Sahil Khan (800m), Hariharan Kathiravan (110m hurdles), Nayan Pradip Sarde (110m hurdles), Murad Kallubhai Simran (400m hurdles), Karthika Raja Arumugam (400m hurdles), Sharuk Khan (3000m steeplechase), Ranvir Ajay Singh (3000m steeplechase), Himanshu (10000m race walk), Sachin (10000m race walk), Mohd Atta Sazid (long jump), Dev Kumar Meena (pole vault), Siddharth Choudhary (shot put), Anurag Singh Kaler (shot put), Ritik (discus throw), Prateek (hammer throw), Dipanshu Sharma (javelin throw), Rohan Yadav (javelin), M Jayaram Dondapati (100m), Ankul (4x400m relay), Rihan Chaudhary (4x400m, mixed relay), Abhiram Pramod (4x400m relay)
Women: Unnathi Aiyappa (200m,100m hurdles), Neeru Pathak (200m, 400m, 4x400m relay), Anushka Dattatray Kumbhar (400m, 4x400m relay), Laxita Sandilea (800m/1500m), Ekta Dey (3000m steeplechase), Shreeya Rajesh (400m hurdles), Aarti (10000m race walk), Nikita Kumari (discus throw), Amanat Kamboj (discus throw), Tamanna (shot put), Pooja Singh (high jump), Pavana Nagaraj (long jump), Abinaya Rajarajan (100m, 4x100m relay), Sudheeksha Vadluri (4x100m relay), Neole Anna Cornelio (4x100m relay), Rujula Amol Bhonsle (4x100m relay), Siya Abhijit Sawant (4x100m relay), Sandramol Sabu (4x400m relay, mixed 4x400m relay), Kanista Teena Maria Deva Shekhar (4x400m relay), Shravani Sachin Sangle (4x400m, mixed 4x400m relay)