Rajiv Arokia Sunday bagged a surprise bronze in men's 400m race in a personal best timing on the second day of the athletics competitions in the Asian Games.
Arokia clocked a creditable 45.92 seconds to better his earlier best of 46.13 seconds which he clocked at the National Inter-State Championships in Lucknow in June.
Arokia's effort was the seventh best ever by an Indian. The national record in this event is in the name of K M Beenu with a timing of 45.48 seconds set in Athens in the 2004 Olympics.
Pre-match favourite Saudi Arabia's Yousef Ahmed Masrahi, the season leader, won the gold in a Games record timing of 44.46 seconds while Abubakar Abbas of Bahrain took the silver in 45.62 seconds. The other Indian in the fray, Kunhu Muhammed finished seventh in the eight-competitor field with a timing of 46.53 seconds.