India took two silver and one bronze even as China continued their dominance of the biennial championships.

China took five of the 10 gold available on the day and took their overall tally to 12 golds after three days. Japan and Qatar lie in the second spot with four gold medal each. India have bagged two silver and three bronze so far.

Vineeta Tripathi, a member of the senior Indian athletics team, and who flew in from Kathmandu after the first day's events were all but over, was expected to break the gold drought for India. Tripathi, who had clocked 23.59 seconds in the South Asian Federation Games in the Nepalese capital, may well have done just that had she come close to that time. Travel and fatigue seemed to have taken a toll as she was sluggish at the start and conceded defeat to the Chinesesprint sensation Qin Wang Ping, who added the 200m gold to the 100m she won earlier in the meet.

Qin clocked 23.80s for the gold, as Tripathi was timed in a slow 24.51s. Indonesia's Irene Joseph took the bronze in 24.64. Another India, Mandeep Kaur, finished sixth in 25.33s.

India added another silver through women's discus thrower Harwant Kaur, whose best of the day 51.24m was exactly one-and-a half metres behind the gold medallist, China's Shao Yang Xu, who achieved 52.74m.

The third medal for India came from Vinod Kumar Singh, who threw the hammer to 59.17m for the bronze medal behind Tajik Dilshod Nazarov and Yi Shen of China. Dilshod cleared 63.56m and Shen 63.10m.