The Indian equestrian staff comprising Hriday Chheda, Divyakriti Singh, Anush Agarwalla and Sudipti Hajela. Picture credit score: X/@Media_SAI
India received their third gold medal within the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Video games on Tuesday, with the staff comprising Hriday Chheda, Divyakriti Singh, Anush Agarwalla and Sudipti Hajela rising triumphant in Equestrian Dressage.
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The victory for the quartet additionally helped ship India’s first Asian Video games Equestrian gold medal in 41 years. India had received 5 medals again in 1982 — three gold and a silver and bronze every.
Moreover, the victory on Tuesday is India’s first ever in staff dressage. Raghubir Singh had completed on prime of the rostrum within the particular person eventing class within the 1982 Video games that have been held in New Delhi.
Raghubir would then go on to win staff dressage bronze with Jitendarjit Singh Ahluwalia and Ghulam Mohammed Khan within the 1986 Video games in Seoul.
India had received two gold medals on Monday, in males’s 10m air rifle staff and girls’s cricket respectively, and the Equestrian victory takes their medal tally to 12, which places them on the sixth spot on the medal desk.
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