Bhubaneswar: India and Odisha’s pride Animesh Kujur collected another prestigious medal, this time in an international meet.
National 200m record-holder Animesh helped the Indian mixed 4x100m relay quartet bag bronze medal at the 2nd Asian Relay Championships being held in China’s Shaoxing.
The quartet of Animesh, Gaurav Pranav, Tamanna and SS Sneha clocked 41.47 seconds to finish third behind gold-medallists Thailand (41.14) and second-placed China (41.29).
India earned another medal, a silver, later in the day.
The mixed 4x400m team of TS Shetty, Barath Sridhar, MR Poovamma and Neeru Pathak clocked 3 minutes, 17.06 seconds to finish second behind winners Kazakhstan (3:16.35) and China (3:17.20).