Mayookha Johny during the triple jump final, in Kobe, on Saturday. (AFP)

Kobe: Mayookha Johny won her second medal with a new national record in triple jump while shot putter Om Prakash Karhana finished third as India won two bronze on the third and penultimate day of the Asian Athletics Championships here on Saturday.

However, the Indian camp was disappointed to see Sushmita Singha Roy finishing fourth with 5179 aggregate points in women’s heptathlon.. Sushmita, who was in second place till Friday, could not give her best when it mattered. Thailand’s Wassana Winatho won the event with 5710 points.

Mayookha, who had won gold in long jump on the opening day on Thursday, leapt 14.11 metres to win bronze. In the process, she smashed her own national record of 14.02m which she set at the third leg of Asian Grand Prix at Wujiang in China to become the first Indian women triple jumper to cross the 14m mark.

Compatriot M A Prajusha finished seventh with an effort of 13.63m.

Mayookha qualified for 2012 Olympics in triple jump, going past the London Games ‘B’ qualifying standard of 14.10m.

The Kerala athlete has now qualified for the August 27 to September 4 World Championships in South Korea in long jump as well triple jump.

China’s Limei Xie won the gold by leaping 14.54m, while Valeriya Kanatova of Uzbekistan bagged the silver with an effort of 14.14m.

The second bronze for India was won by shot putter Om Prakash Karhana who was defending the gold he won in the 2009 edition in Guangzhou.

Om Prakash’s 19.47m was, however, more than half a meter less than the London Olympics and World Championships ‘B’ qualification standard of 20m.

Another Indian in the event, Saurabh Vij was fourth with an effort of 18.72m.

Chinese Taipei’s Ming-Huang Chang won the gold by tossing the iron ball to 20.14m while China’s Jun Zhang came second with an effort of 19.77.

Asian Games gold medallist Joseph Abraham and bronze winner Kavita Raut failed to make a podium finish in men’s 400m hurdles and women’s 5,000m, respectively.

Abraham, who had a national record timing of 49.51seconds, finished fourth with a moderate 50.82secs. Compatriot Satinder Singh was sixth in a much slower 51.93 secs.

Asian Games bronze medallist Kavita Raut finished eighth in 5,000m race with a timing of 16 minutes 23.06 secs while compatriot Suriya Loganathan was ninth with 17 mins 19.44 secs. In the men’s 500m race, Suresh Kumar finished sixth, clocking 14 mins 05.64 secs.

In men’s 800m race, Ghamanda Ram and Sajeesh Joseph qualified for the final after finishing first in their respective heats with 1:51.76 and 1:52.97 respectively.

India have so far won eight medals in the championships with one day to go with one gold, one silver and six bronze. (PTI)