‘Will be hard to clock 2:58 at Asian Games’

Jacob, Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi and Rajesh Ramesh shattered the Asian record, clocking 2 minute 59.05 seconds to take the Indian men’s relay team to its first ever World Championship final last week

‘Will be hard to clock 2:58 at Asian Games’

Amoj Jacob

The performance at the World Championships is a major confidence booster but replicating that at the Asian Games will be difficult given that the field will be less competitive, feels Indian men’s 4x400m relay team member Amoj Jacob.

Jacob, Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi and Rajesh Ramesh shattered the Asian record, clocking 2 minute 59.05 seconds to take the Indian men’s relay team to its first ever World Championship final last week.

At the Asian Games, the quartet will be the frontrunners to win gold. “Definitely, (it) will be hard for us to get 2:58 (because) we won’t get that much challenge from anyone else at the Asian Games. Everyone will be looking at us,” Jacob said during an online mwedia interaction arranged by JSW.

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