Overview
- India closed the four-day meet in Hong Kong on Sunday with 19 medals, including 10 golds, to finish second behind China in the overall standings.
- The Indian women's 4x400m team won gold in 3:38.07 to set a new meet record and the men's 4x400m squad also bettered the prior meet mark to take bronze.
- High jumper Pooja cleared 1.93 metres to break a two-decade-old national record and underline individual breakthroughs in the squad.
- Muskan won the women's 5,000m in 16:53.08 and Venkatram Reddy Mogali took the men's 800m in a personal best of 1:48.27, among several event-level personal bests.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly congratulated the team on X, and the results are being read as evidence of a deeper talent pipeline that could feed India's senior ranks.