Nairobi: Indian Mixed 4x400m Relay Team on Wednesday won bronze to win the country’s fifth medal in the history of the U-20 world Athletics championship here.
Indian quartet from Bharat S, Priya Mohan, Summuy and Kapil recorded 3: 20.60 seconds to complete the third in the final.
Nigeria and Poland won a gold and silver medal with Timing 3: 19.70 and 3: 19.80s.
India has entered the final as the second best team as a whole with a 3: 23.36 championship timing in a hot race held in the morning.
The record, however, is short-lived when the athletes from Nigeria increase them by completing their race in hot 2 with 3: 21,66s.
Before Bronze Wednesday in a mixed relay 4x400m, India has won a medal through the Antil Seema (Bronze in Discus Throw, 2002), Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (Bronze in Discus Throw, 2014), Olympic Champion Neeraj Chopra (Gold in Throw Javelin, 2016) and Hima DAS (Gold at 400m, 2018) in the U-20 world met.