Indian athletes touched the magical determine of 107 medals on the Asian Video games with their blood, sweat and toil during the last fortnight to offer the nation an early Diwali reward, and a promise of a best-ever harvest on the 2024 Paris Olympics. With India concluding its engagements on the continental showpiece on Saturday as no athlete from the nation is within the fray in a few occasions scheduled on the ultimate day of competitors on Sunday, the tally of 107 will stay etched within the collective reminiscence of the nation till the athletes resolve to reset it in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan in 2026. India’s last tally in Hangzhou stood at 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze, a quantum leap from the 70 medals the contingent bagged at Jakarta in 2018. The tally had touched the 95-medal mark on Friday with a couple of assured medals on Saturday. However, surprisingly, the athletes bagged 12 medals on the final day of their marketing campaign, clinching six gold, 4 silver and two bronze.
A have a look at India’s medals tally on the Asian Video games through the years –
1951 – 15 gold, 16 silver, 20 bronze – Complete: 51
1954 – 5 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze – Complete: 17
1958 – 5 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze – Complete:13
1962 – 10 gold, 13 silver, 10 bronze – Complete: 33
1966 – 7 gold, 3 silver, 11 bronze – Complete: 21
1970 – 6 gold, 9 silver, 10 bronze – Complete: 25
1974 – 4 gold, 12 silver, 12 bronze – Complete: 28
1978 – 11 gold, 11 silver, 6 bronze – Complete: 28
1982 – 13 gold, 19 silver, 25 bronze – Complete: 57
1986 – 5 gold, 9 silver, 23 bronze – Complete: 37
1990 – 1 gold, 8 silver, 14 bronze – Complete: 23
1994 – 4 gold, 3 silver, 16 bronze – Complete: 23
1998 – 7 gold, 11 silver, 17 bronze – Complete: 35
2002 – 11 gold. 12 silver. 13 bronze – Complete: 36
2006 – 10 gold, 17 silver, 26 bronze – Complete: 53
2010 – 14 gold, 17 silver, 34 bronze – Complete: 65
2014 – 11 gold, 10 silver, 36 bronze – Complete: 57
2018 – 16 gold, 23 silver, 31 bronze – Complete: 70
2023 – 28 gold, 38 silver, 41 bronze – Complete: 107
If celebrated Indian grappler Bajrang Punia bowed out with no whimper leaving the nation in shock on Friday night, the smashing Indian males’s badminton pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty introduced tons of cheers to the contingent on Saturday afternoon, whereas the lads’s and girls’s kabaddi groups regained their delight of place after slipping in 2018 Jakarta.
An argument within the last towards Iran aside, the Pawan Sehrawat-led males’s kabaddi staff was merely on hearth, whereas younger archer Ojas Deotale and Abhishek Verma made it a gold-silver end within the compound males’s particular person occasion.
Archer Jyothi Vennam too had her golden second on the nation’s last day of competitors, taking the highest podium end in particular person girls’s compound occasion and present the continental giants within the sport, South Korea, that India had nicely and actually arrived on the scene.
The lads’s and girls’s chess groups lastly supplied the silver lining to the nation’s marketing campaign later within the day as India had the fourth-best tally behind China, Japan and South Korea.
India’s fourth place is unlikely to alter as fifth-placed Uzbekistan has 20 gold as in comparison with India’s 28.
On the again of a splendid present by the shooters (22) and monitor and area athletes (29 medals), who contributed 51 medals, India had already surpassed its best-ever present on Wednesday this week.
The Indian contingent gained many shock medals, the most important being a girls’s desk tennis staff bronze by Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee, who humbled the mighty China within the semifinals.
Parul Chaudhary’s sensational sprint within the final 30 metres of the ladies’s 5000m occasion may also be remembered for a very long time because the Meerut runner snatched a gold by edging Japan’s Ririka Hironaka in a detailed end.
Javelin thrower Kishore Kumar Jena’s astonishing 86.77m throw that gave him lead over celebrity Neeraj Chopra for a quick interval within the males’s javelin occasion was one other unforgettable second.
Later Chopra gained the gold, whereas Jena completed behind him to accept a silver medal.
Canoers Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam’s historic bronze within the males’s double 1000m together with Ram Baboo and Manju Rani’s third place end within the blended 35km race stroll have been good examples that if athletes refuse to bow all the way down to the hardships life throws, excelling in sports activities is feasible.
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