Taipei city athletics open

New Taipei City Athletics Open: India's women's 4x100m relay team produced a commanding performance to clinch the gold medal and set a new meet record at the New Taipei City Athletics Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event, on Saturday.

The quartet of Srabani Nanda, S.S. Sneha, Sudeshna Shivankar, and Tamanna clocked an impressive 44.07 seconds at the Banqiao Stadium in Taiwan to finish atop the podium. In the process, the Indian team shattered the previous meet record and secured victory by a comfortable margin of 0.31 seconds over Vietnam, which finished second.

Apart from the relay triumph, India also enjoyed success in the field events through promising long jumper Shaili Singh, who secured the gold medal in the women's long jump competition. Shaili registered a best effort of 6.24 metres to finish ahead of her rivals and add another medal to India's tally at the meet.