India's Anu Kumar won gold in the men's 800 metre event at the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships here on Saturday.
Kumar clocked 1:54.11 to push Iran's Abdolrahim Dorzadeh (1:54.23) to the runners-up spot.
Fuki Torii of Japan took bronze in 1:54.55.
India also bagged a bronze in the men's 4x100m event with the quartet of Prajwal Ravi, Akash Kumar, Nithin Balakumar and Gurindervir Singh registering a time of 40.75 seconds.
Hosts Japan won the title with Yuki Takagi, Daisuke Miyamoto, Satoru Fukushima and Justin Junpei Tsukamoto clocking 39.65 seconds.
Chinese Taipei's Lin Yu-tang, Wei Tai-sheng, Lu Hao-hua and Yeh Shou-po took silver with 39.72 seconds.
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