Thursday 25 November, 2010.
Joseph Abraham clocked a season's best of 49.96sec to clinch the gold medal for India in the men's 400m hurdles event of the Asian Games in Guangzhou on Thursday.
The 29-year-old Indian's effort was, however, still short of the national record of49.51sec as he set during the 2007 World Championships in Osaka .
The silver went to Saudi Arabia 's Bandar Yahya Sharahili, who clocked 50.29sec. Japan 's Naohiro Kawakita settled for the bronze medal with a timing of 50.37sec.
Earlier, Ashwini Chidananda bagged the gold in the women's 400m hurdles event.
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