New Delhi [India], October 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will work together with and tackle the contingent of Indian athletes who participated within the Asian Games 2022 at round 4:30 PM on tenth October 2023 at Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, New Delhi.
The programme is an endeavour by the Prime Minister to congratulate the athletes for his or her excellent achievement on the Asian Games 2022 and to encourage them for future competitions. India received a complete of 107 medals, together with 28 gold medals in Asian Games 2022. This is India’s finest efficiency within the Asian Games when it comes to complete variety of medals received.
The program can be attended by the athletes of the Indian contingent for the Asian Games, their coaches, officers from the Indian Olympic Association, representatives of National Sports Federations, together with officers from the Ministry of Youth AffairsSports.
India completed in fourth place on the Asian Games medal desk with its best-ever medal tally of 107 medals. Many athletes made the video games memorable with their performances.
Lovlina Borgohain, a Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist in boxing, clinched a silver medal within the Women’s 75kg class, incomes her a spot on the Paris Olympics in 2024. She turned the second Indian feminine boxer to succeed in the gold medal bout on the Asian Games.
Kishore Jena’s outstanding javelin throw of 87.54 meters earned him a silver medal, solidifying his place as India’s second-best javelin thrower after Neeraj Chopra. Jena has improved his private finest seven occasions in 2023. His private finest was 78.05m earlier than this 12 months.
Young taking pictures prodigy Palak Gulia achieved a historic double by successful gold within the girls’s 10m air pistol occasion and securing a silver medal as a part of the 10m air pistol girls’s group. She turned the youngest Indian shooter to medal on this version and the primary Indian girl ever to win gold within the 10m air pistol particular person occasion.
India utterly dominated the athletics occasions on this Asiad with 29 medals comprising six golds, 14 silvers, and 9 bronzes – which is India’s best-ever tally because the inaugural version in 1951 in athletics.
Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh ended India’s 25-year medal drought within the Men’s 10,000m occasion with a outstanding 2-3 end, each setting new private bests. These had been India’s first medals within the occasion after Gulab Chand’s bronze on the 1998 Bangkok Asiad. Both athletes additionally etched new private bests in a scintillating show.
Jyothi Yarraji displayed distinctive resilience by successful a silver medal within the Women’s 100m hurdles, overcoming the challenges of a false begin declare to safe India’s first-ever medal on this occasion.
Mohammad Afsal secured a silver medal within the Men’s 800m, whereas Jinson Johnson returned to successful methods with a bronze within the Men’s 1500m occasion, turning into the primary Indian male athlete to medal in a number of editions of the Asian Games within the 1500m occasion.
Dhruv Kapila in badminton and Simranjeet Kaur in archery contributed considerably to their respective group occasions, with India successful its first-ever silver in males’s badminton and securing a bronze in girls’s recurve archery. Tushar Shelke was additionally part of the lads’s recurve group that received silver after beating Bangladesh within the semi-finals.
The Indian delegation wrapped their nineteenth Asian Games journey with 107 medals, ending the continental meet with the largest-ever medal haul after 20 days of intense, glory-filled competitors.
The Indian contingent bagged a file 107 medals – 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze – in Hangzhou, surpassing their earlier finest, set at 2018 Jakarta. (ANI)