India’s women and Johnson clinch 4x400, 1500m gold

India’s Jinson Johnson made up for losing out on the men’s 800m gold with a win in the 1500m event at the 2018 Asian Games yesterday, even as India’s women locked the 4x400m relay gold to take the country’s golden haul to 13.Johnson had finished behind winner and compatriot Manjit Singh in the 800m but made up for it by clocking 3 minutes and 44.72 seconds in the 1500m to take the yellow metal. Iran’s Amir Moradi took silver with his season best timing of 3:45.62, while Bahrain’s Mohamed Tiouali settled for bronze with a time of 3:45.88. The Indian quartet of Hima Das, Raju Poovamma, Saritaben Laxmanbhai Gayakwad and Vismaya Koroth registered a time of 3 minutes and 28.72 seconds to finish at the top of the podium.Bahrain got silver with 3:30.61 while the quartet from Vietnam clocked their season’s best time of 3:33.23 to bag the bronze medal.India’s Chitra Unnikrishnan Palakeezh bagged bronze in the women’s 1500 metre competition, with the 23-year-old clocking 4 minutes and 12.56 seconds. Bahrain secured the top two places as Kalkidan Befkadu and Tigist Belay clinched gold and silver respectively.Seema Punia had to settle for the bronze medal in the women’s discus throw event, registering a throw of 62.26 metres to ensure a place on the podium.China clinched the top two positions with Chen Yang (65.12m) and Feng Bin (64.25m) getting gold and silver respectively.India lose to Malaysia in hockey semisIndia’s men’s hockey team failed to reach the final as they lost to Malaysia in a dramatic penalty shoot-out.The match ended in a 2-2 stalemate in regulation time, before India lost 6-7 in the penalty shoot-out.Tomorrow, India will take on Pakistan, who lost to Japan 0-1 in the other semi-final, in the bronze medal tie. It was youngsters Harmanpreet Singh (33rd minute) and Varun Kumar (40th) who had scored in regulation time for India while Faizal Saari (39th) and Rahim Mohamed Razie (59th) equalised for Malaysia and took the match into the shootout.