New Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): India are heading in the right direction for its largest ever-medal haul on the Asian Games as athletics ended an action-packed Day 10 of the occasion with the glut of medals on the continental meet in Hangzhou.
India received 70 medals on the Asian Games 2018 – its highest-ever medal tally on the continental occasion. India ended Day 10 of the nineteenth Asian Games with general 69 medals- 15 gold, 26 silver and 28 bronze.
On Tuesday, athletics hogged the limelight as the entire of India celebrated the historic gold medal victories of Annu Rani and Parul Chaudhary.
Athletics led India’s cost within the second half of the day, Parul received the nation’s first-ever gold medals in ladies’s 5000m on the continental meet, making it two medals on the Asian Games for herself, after grabbing silver within the ladies’s 3000m race on Monday. Tejaswin Shankar broke the nationwide file to win the Men’s Decathlon silver medal.
Meanwhile, Mohammed Afsal received silver within the males’s 800m, dropping out to Essa Kzwani of Saudi Arabia. Praveen Chitharavel, the boys’s triple soar nationwide file holder, completed third in Hangzhou with one of the best soar of 16.68m, whereas Vithya Ramraj earned bronze within the Women’s 400m Hurdles.
The Indian males’s canoe double 1000m workforce of Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam took residence a bronze medal. It was India’s second canoe medal and the primary in 29 years.
The boxing contingent had a blended day as Preeti Pawar and Narender Berwal ended their campaigns with bronze whereas Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain marched into the ladies’s 75kg gold medal bout. She additionally secured an Olympic quota for India within the class.
Making their debut within the Games, the Indian males’s cricket workforce secured a spot within the semifinals after registering a 23-run victory in opposition to Nepal. Yashasvi Jaiswal slammed his first T20I century, changing into the youngest T20I century-maker from India.
After taking part in a draw in opposition to Chinese Taipei of their opening match on Monday, the ladies’s kabaddi workforce returned to successful methods in opposition to South Korea 56-23 whereas the boys’s workforce beat Bangladesh of their opener. India had a nice day in squash as veteran participant Saurav Ghosal together with blended doubles pairs Dipika Pallikal-Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu and Anahat Singh-Abhay Singh assured medals for the nation.
India’s medal rush was signed off by Annu Rani who received a gold within the ladies’s javelin remaining with a season-best throw.
Two gold, two silver, and 5 bronze medals on Tuesday took India just one shy of their file – 70 on the 2018 Asian Games.
With squash and boxing medals confirmed India are cool-headed to create a brand new file in Hangzhou. (ANI)