Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago): India ended the Commonwealth Youth Games here on a positive note, winning a silver and two bronze medals in athletics on the final day, finishing 17th in the medals table.
Asha Kiran Barla won silver in girls' 800m while the bronze medals were bagged by Pooja in girls' high jump and Arjun in boys' javelin throw.
Earlier, swimmer Shoan Ganguly won silver in boys' 400m individual medley while Sasi Anupriya claimed bronze in the girls' shot put, both medals coming on Monday as the contingent comprising 12 boys and 12 girls finished with five medals in all.
Asha finished second in the girls' 800m in 2 minutes, 04.99 seconds, finishing behind England's Phoebe Gill who set a championship record of 2:02.30 seconds, improving on the record of 2:04.23 set by South Africa's Caster Semenya in 2008. Australia's Fleur Cooper took the bronze medal in 2:05.86.
In boys' javelin throw, Arjun finished third with a distance of 65.94, which he achieved in the first of his six attempts. South Africa's Willem Schalk Jacobus Jansen (79.85m) and Tom Rutter of England, who covered a distance of 67.54m, finished 1-2.
In girls' high jump, Pooja finished joint third with a leap of 1.75m.
