Asian champion P U Chitra ran her season\u2019s best to win the women\u2019s 1500m\ngold at the Folksam Grand Prix in Sollentuna, Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chitra, who won the gold in the Asian Championships in Doha in April,\nclocked 4 minutes 12.65 seconds to finish ahead of Kenya\u2019s Mercy Cherono, who\nwon 5000m gold in 2014 Commonwealth Games, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asian Games gold medallist Jinson Johnson won the silver in the men\u2019s 1500m\nclocking 3:39.69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnson had, on June 15, bettered his own national record by clocking\n3:37.62 at the Next Generation Athletics Meet at Nijmegen, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In another separate competition, national record holder long jumper Murali\nSreeshankar won the gold at the Copenhagen Athletics Games in Denmark with an\nimpressive opening round effort of 7.93m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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