The Indian contingent had fairly the windfall on Sunday, successful as many as 15 medals on Day 8 of the 2023 Asian Video games to take their total rely previous the 50-mark.
A majority of these medals on a Tremendous Sunday got here in athletics, with the likes of Avinash Sable and Tajinderpal Singh Toor successful gold in males’s 3000m steeplechase and males’s shot put occasions respectively.
India additionally received gold within the lure males’s crew occasion due to the trio of Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Sandhu and Prithviraj Tondaiman. Moreover three gold, the Indians received seven silver medals together with 5 bronze, and had been fourth on the Hangzhou medal desk with a complete of 53 medals to their credit score.
With the eighth day of competitors coming to a conclusion, we revisit the medals received by Indian athletes on the day together with different highlights:
Golf: Aditi finishes with silver
Aditi Ashok on Sunday clinched a historic silver in girls’s golf on the 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou. This was India’s first ever medal in girls’s golf on the Asian Video games.
Coming into the ultimate day with a commanding seven-stroke lead, Aditi noticed the benefit evaporate as she stumbled upon 4 bogeys and a double bogey in opposition to a lone birdie to slide to the second place.
The 25-year-old ended her marketing campaign with a four-day combination of 17-under 271 as Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol held her nerves to supply her week’s finest card of 64 and declare the coveted gold medal.
Korea’s Hyunjo Yoo, too, carded an improved 65 to win a bronze.
It was India’s fourth particular person medal in golf with Lakshman Singh and Shiv Kapur successful the gold within the 1982 and 2002 editions and Rajiv Mohta claiming a silver in New Delhi.
Capturing: Girls’s lure crew win silver, males’s lure crew clinch gold
The Indian girls’s lure crew comprising of Rajeshwari Kumari, Manisha Keer and Preeti Rajak clinched silver within the taking pictures occasion on the 2023 Asian Video games on Sunday.
The trio completed behind LI Qingnian, Wu Cuicui and Zhang Xinqiu with a complete rating of 337. The Chinese language received gold with a complete rating of 357.
Mariya Dmitriyenko, Aizhan Dosmagambetoa and Anastassiya Prilepina of Kazkhstan clinched bronze with a rating of 336.
Within the males’s lure occasion, the trio of Prithviraj Tondaiman, Zoravar Singh Sandhu and Kynan Darius Chenai clinched gold medal with a rating of 361 factors.
Within the males’s lure particular person occasion, Kynan Darius Chenai clinched bronze medal with a rating of 32, behind gold medallist Qi Ying of China and Talal Alrashidi of Kuwait, who received silver.
This was India’s twenty second, and closing medal in taking pictures at this 12 months’s Asian Video games
Boxing: Parveen assured of medal; Nikhat bows out with bronze
World Championship bronze medallist boxer Parveen Hooda assured India of a medal and likewise grabbed a Paris Olympic quota by transferring into the 57kg semifinals.
Parveen, who received the bronze medal within the 63kg on the 2022 World Boxing Championships, moved handed Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova by unanimous verdict within the quarterfinal.
Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist Jaismine Lamboria, nonetheless, crashed out of the 60kg contest after conceding a second spherical RSC (referee stops contest) to North Korean boxer Gained Ungyong in her quarterfinal bout.
Moreover, Nikhat Zareen, competing within the girls’s 50kg class, needed to accept bronze after dropping to Rakast Chuthamat of Thailand.
The Thai lady received 2-1 on cut up choice within the semifinal contest. Zareen had received the primary spherical, however her rival emerged the victor within the two following rounds.
Jasmine took on Ungyong Gained of North Korea within the quarter-finals of the ladies’s 60kg class. Whereas the Indian had received the opening spherical, Gained scripted a comeback within the second spherical with some attacking strikes.
Jasmine ultimately faltered to defeat, because of Gained’s medical show, and the North Korean received the bout by a Referee Stops Contest (RSC) verdict.
Athletics: Sable, Toor spotlight of India’s monitor and discipline heroics
Avinash Sable grew to become the primary Indian man to win 3000m steeplechase gold at Asian Video games whereas shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor pulled off an enormous closing spherical throw to defend his title on a medal-laden day which fetched 9 podium finishes.
The day was additionally marred by controversy within the girls’s 100m hurdles closing. Jyothi Yarraji, together with Chinese language runner Wu Yanni, was disqualified for false begin however the judges later allowed the race to be run.
Lin Yuwei of China received the race with a time of 12.74 seconds whereas Yanni (12.91) and Yarraji (13.04) had been second and third respectively.
However the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) instantly filed a protest and inside minutes, Yanni was disqualified beneath Technical Rule 16.8 and Yarraji’s bronze was upgraded to silver.
Earlier than the controversy struck, Toor made a outstanding comeback after opening with two foul throws and trailing at third on the finish of the third spherical. He jumped to second together with his 20.06m fourth spherical throw however had a foul throw subsequent to be on the verge of dropping the gold to Saudi Arabia’s Mohamed Daouda Tolo.
However, the Asian report holder Toor saved one of the best for the final as hurled the iron ball to twenty.36m to nail the gold.
Toor thus grew to become the fourth Indian shot putter to defend Asian Video games gold after Parduman Singh Brar (1954 and 1958), Joginder Singh (1966 and 1970) and Bahadur Singh Chouhan (1978 and 1982).
Sable, the 29-year-old nationwide report holder, earned India its first gold medal in athletics, finishing the race in 8 minutes 19.50 seconds.
Sable rewrote the earlier Asian Video games report of 8:22.79 held within the identify of Iran’s Hossein Keyhani set on the 2018 Jakarta Video games. His timing was, nonetheless, nicely beneath his nationwide report time of 8:11.20 and season’s better of 8:11.63.
Within the 1500m for girls, flamboyant Harmilan Bains received a silver with a time of 4 minute 12.74 seconds whereas Ajay Kumar Saroj (3:38.94) and Jinson Johnson (3:39.74) received silver and bronze respectively within the males’s 1500m.
Harmilan joined her mom Madhuri Singh — the 2002 version 800m silver winner — as Asian Video games medallist.
Veteran discus thrower Seema Punia received a bronze for her third medal in as many editions of the Asian Video games with a throw of 58.62m.
“This is my last Asian Games and I am ending with a medal. I think I will be looking ahead to be able to qualify for the Paris Olympics maybe through ranking,” she stated.
In males’s lengthy bounce, Murali Sreeshankar picked up a silver with a bounce of 8.19m, behind Wang Jianan (8.22m) of China, who had received a silver medal within the Budapest World Championships in August.
Within the girls’s heptathlon, Nandini Agasara took the bronze forward of 2018 gold medallist Swapna Barman after successful the 800m race, the final of the gruelling seven-event competitors.
Nandini collected an combination of 5712 factors whereas Barman, who completed third in 800m, secured 5708. China’s Zheng Ninali received the gold with an combination of 6149 factors whereas Voronina Ekaterina of Uzbekistan was second with 6056.
Earlier, India’s Amlan Borgohain completed on the third place after clocking 21.08 seconds within the males’s 200m heats and superior to the semifinal.
Badminton: India males go down combating in opposition to China, accumulate silver
Injured HS Prannoy’s absence harm India as they went down combating 2-3 in opposition to badminton powerhouse China to log off with their first-ever silver medal within the males’s crew championships.
After world No. 7 Prannoy was dominated out as a result of a again harm, Lakshya Sen produced a gutsy present within the first singles and doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty then bossed over their opponents to place India 2-0 forward.
So, it was as soon as once more left to Kidambi Srikanth to hold the crew on his shoulders.
The previous world No. 1, who had produced a gritty present in opposition to South Korea within the semifinals, couldn’t go the gap this time regardless of a wholesome lead and a number of recreation factors as China fought again to make it 1-2.
The defending champions then received the remaining two matches to take care of their hegemony within the Asian Video games.
Scratch pair of Dhruv Kapila and Sai Pratheek Krishna Prasad misplaced 6-21 15-21 to world No. 8 Liu Yu Chen and Ou Xuan Yi, whereas Prannoy’s substitute Mithun Manjunath, ranked 53, went down 12-21 4-21 in opposition to world No. 20 Weng Hong Yang within the third singles as India completed second finest.
Regardless of the loss, it’s a creditable efficiency from the Indian crew because it sealed India’s second silver medal in badminton on the continental championships with two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu successful the primary in girls’s singles within the 2018 version.
With inputs from PTI