New Delhi [India], October 7 (ANI): President Draupadi Murmu expressed her happiness after the Indian athletes introduced 107 medals house within the nineteenth Asian Games setting a brand new benchmark for medal tally.
Over the final 20 days, Indian athletes fought exhausting, broke a number of data and completed with a medal tally in three digits for the primary time for the reason that inception of the Asian Games.
“India’s contingent signs off Asian Games with an impressive show of skill and grit! Congratulations to the Indian women and men kabaddi teams for their gold medals! Indian men’s cricket team also wins gold while men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty win India’s first-ever badminton gold medal. The nation is proud of the players who bring home 107 medals, setting new benchmarks of excellence,” The President wrote on X.
On Saturday, India continued their dominance in kabaddi within the Asian Games by successful gold within the last in a hard-fought match towards Iran. Both groups performed an intense sport and each groups had been virtually head-to-head until the tip.
While in wrestling, Indian grappler Deepak Punia settled for a silver medal within the Men’s Freestyle 86Kg last after taking place towards Iran’s Hassan Yazdanicharati.
The ladies’s hockey staff additionally added to India’s medal tally of 107 by claiming a bronze on Saturday towards Japan by 2-1.
Finally, the Indian males’s cricket staff received gold of their first Asian Games marketing campaign after the ultimate was known as off resulting from persistent rain with Afghanistan having batted for 18.2 overs. The ‘Men in Blue’ secured gold contemplating their greater rating, leaving Afghanistan to accept the silver. (ANI)