Vijender Singh. Paramjeet Samota. Sushil Kumar. Two boxers won gold medal for India in the Asian Games. One was Vijender Singh.
Who was the other? Somdev Devvarman. Vikas Krishnan. India ended their gold medal hunt by winning which event in both men's and women's category? Tennis Doubles. Related Quizzes. India's campaign ended in the sepaktakraw event with both the men's and women's team losing their third consecutive group matches at Haizhu sports centre in Guangzhou on Thursday. After losing the last two days encounters in both men's and women's categories, India again failed to manage a win on Thursday and remained winless in the entire event.
First the men's team was blanked by Malaysia in their Group B match, then the Indian eves suffered a loss at the hands of Thailand in their pool games. Sign in Create a Rediffmail account. November 18, IST. Get Rediff News in your Inbox: email. Rowers fetch two silver. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent.
Print this article. Sharath in third round at World TT. Can't afford to take Sharath lightly: Top seed. The Indian contingent including women, will represent the country in 35 different disciplines in the Nov Games. In the last edition in Doha, India sent athletes to compete in 31 disciplines and finished with a total of 53 medals — 10 gold, 17 silver and 26 bronze.
The Indian contingent also includes coaches, 44 managers, eight doctors, seven physiotherapists, six masseurs, nine technical officials, 12 contingent officials, six government observers athletics, cycling, kabaddi, rowing, shooting and wrestling , five nominees of the Sports Authority of India and 10 other officials.
Coach: Ravi Shankar. Bombayla Devi and Dola Banerjee both Railways. Coach: Purnima Mahato. Mary Kom 48 Kg. Not Participating. Ashbeer Saini is the reserve player. Shradhanjali Singh is the reserve player.
Roller Sports. Table Tennis. The bronze was won by Iranian cyclist Mehdi Sohrabi. The Malaysians excelled in the Keirin finals as their cyclists grabbed both gold and silver. Azizulhasni Awang got the gold while compatriot Josiah NG got the silver. Miao Zhang of China won the bronze medal. Vikas Krishan 60kg became the second Indian boxer to book a pre-quarterfinal berth at the Asian Games after the teenager beat Thailand's Saylom Ardee in his opening round bout.
The lanky Haryana-lad, with a water-tight defence, fought from long range and never really allowed his rival to get so close as to strike a scoring blow. The Indian led in the opening round and built on the lead with his trademark combination punches, the most prominent being jabs which he used to telling effect against Ardee.
India's Jasvant lost a closely contested fight against Yulius Fernado of Indonesia to crash out of the men's 74kg taekwondo event. The Indian was more dominant for most part of the pre-quarterfinal match but his opponent turned the tables during the closing minutes of the bout, scoring heavily in the final round to advance to the last-eight stage.
Earlier in the day, Jasvant did well to get the better of Sawatvilay Phimmaosne of Laos in the first round at the Guangdong Gymnasium. Latika Bhandari in women's 53kg, Shantibala Devi in 57kg and P Anand in men's 80kg will fight their first round bouts on Thursday. The Indian shooters put up a dismal show on another windy day as they drew a blank for the third day in running with only pistol expert and Melbourne Commonwealth Games hero Samaresh Jung coming up with something notable.
Bespectacled Jung, who earned the nickname 'Goldfinger' after grabbing a record five gold medals four years ago in Melbourne missed the men's 25m standard pistol shoot-off for the bronze by one point in a straight final to finish 7th overall with points from amongst 39 shooters. But his two other team-mates, Pemba Tamang and Chandrahas Chaudhary, performed very poorly, shooting only and out of to end up 22nd and 23rd respectively and the combined effort cost India a team medal too as they finished fourth with points, well behind bronze winners North Korea's , from eleven contestants.
World women's prone position champion Tejaswini Sawant too put up a disappointing display and brought up the rear, finishing 23rd out of 45 shooters with a shocking points in the women's 3-position rifle event. Her team-mate Lajjakumari Gauswami ended up a rung below her with the same score and Chetenpreet Kaur Nilon secured the 31st spot with The Indian squad ended up a shocking 9th out of 12 competing teams with points.
China won the gold wth , South Korea the silver with and the bronze was claimed by Iran In the 25m pistol event, Jung fired out of , an improvement of ten points from his performance in last month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi, with 13 scores of ten but missed the cut off for the third-place play-off by one point with four others logging He finished seventh overall.
India's woeful show continued in the sepaktakraw event with both the men's and women's team losing their second consecutive group matches, to bow out of medal contention. After making a disappointing start to their campaign on Tuesday, when the men's team lost to Japan and the women's team was thrashed by South Korea, India once again failed to make a mark, losing to hosts China.
Even as the men's team went down fighting against the hosts in Group B, Indian women could not win a single match in their pool and got beaten at the hands of the mighty Chinese eves. The men's team will be up against Malaysia on Thursday and the women's team would face Thailand in their last group match.
After ending India's year-old medal drought in the pool in Asian Games, teen swimming sensation Virdhawal Khade topped his m freestyle heats but the effort was not good enough to fetch a place in the final of the event. Khade, who clinched a 50m butterfly bronze on Tuesday to become the first Indian swimmer in 24 years to clinch an Asian Games medal, clocked
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