<p>The Indian mixed 4×400 relay team set an Asian junior record en route to qualifying for the final at the World U-20 Athletics Championships here.</p>.<p>The Indian quartet of Barath Sridhar, Priya Mohan, Kapil and Rupal Chaudhary clocked 3 minutes and 19.62 seconds to win heat number 3 on Monday.</p>.<p>India finished second overall across the three heats behind the USA, who won heat number 2 with a championships record time of 3:18.65s.</p>.<p>The final will be held at 03:20 am IST on Wednesday.</p>.<p>India had won a bronze in the mixed 4x400m relays in the last edition in Nairobi, Kenya in 2021, where the event was introduced for the first time.</p>.<p>Rupal is the only new member of the quartet that had won bronze last year while Sridhar, Priya and Kapil were there in that team.</p>.<p>15-year-old Ashakiran Barla made it to the women's 800m semifinals as one of the four fastest runners outside the four automatic qualifiers each from the five heats. She clocked 2:09.01s to finish sixth in heat number 1.</p>.<p>Sanyam Sanjay finished 13th overall in the shotput qualification round with the best effort of 18.36m and missed the final by just 0.01m.</p>.<p>The other Indian shot putter, Sawan finished 15th with a best effort of 18.31m.</p>.<p>Aman Khokhar could not make it to the 100m dash semifinals after finishing seventh in heat number 8 and 48th overall with a timing of 10.84 seconds.</p>.<p>Arjun Waskale failed to advance further in men's 1500m race after finishing seventh in heat number one and 26th overall with a timing of 3:51.10s.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, in the latest list of sanctioned athletes issued by the Athletics Integrity Unit of the world governing body, India's triple jumper Donald Makimairaj, who had finished fourth in the World U-20 Championships last year, has been banned for four years after testing positive for a banned drug.</p>.<p>His ineligibility period will be upto August 24, 2025, and his results after August 2, 2021 will be annulled.</p>
<p>The Indian mixed 4×400 relay team set an Asian junior record en route to qualifying for the final at the World U-20 Athletics Championships here.</p>.<p>The Indian quartet of Barath Sridhar, Priya Mohan, Kapil and Rupal Chaudhary clocked 3 minutes and 19.62 seconds to win heat number 3 on Monday.</p>.<p>India finished second overall across the three heats behind the USA, who won heat number 2 with a championships record time of 3:18.65s.</p>.<p>The final will be held at 03:20 am IST on Wednesday.</p>.<p>India had won a bronze in the mixed 4x400m relays in the last edition in Nairobi, Kenya in 2021, where the event was introduced for the first time.</p>.<p>Rupal is the only new member of the quartet that had won bronze last year while Sridhar, Priya and Kapil were there in that team.</p>.<p>15-year-old Ashakiran Barla made it to the women's 800m semifinals as one of the four fastest runners outside the four automatic qualifiers each from the five heats. She clocked 2:09.01s to finish sixth in heat number 1.</p>.<p>Sanyam Sanjay finished 13th overall in the shotput qualification round with the best effort of 18.36m and missed the final by just 0.01m.</p>.<p>The other Indian shot putter, Sawan finished 15th with a best effort of 18.31m.</p>.<p>Aman Khokhar could not make it to the 100m dash semifinals after finishing seventh in heat number 8 and 48th overall with a timing of 10.84 seconds.</p>.<p>Arjun Waskale failed to advance further in men's 1500m race after finishing seventh in heat number one and 26th overall with a timing of 3:51.10s.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, in the latest list of sanctioned athletes issued by the Athletics Integrity Unit of the world governing body, India's triple jumper Donald Makimairaj, who had finished fourth in the World U-20 Championships last year, has been banned for four years after testing positive for a banned drug.</p>.<p>His ineligibility period will be upto August 24, 2025, and his results after August 2, 2021 will be annulled.</p>