Asian Games 2023
Asian Games: Athletes lead the charge to take India on verge of highest-ever medal haul
Just about 24 hours after she took a silver medal in the Women's 3000m steeplechase, Parul Chaudhary became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the 5000m race while Annu Rani overcame a season full of disappointments, which caused her depression, to bag gold medal in javelin throw.
Asian Games: Parul Choudhary claims gold in women's 5000m with late surge
Parul was sixth midway through the race and then pulled ahead getting past one competitor at a time and finally surged past the Japanese opponent in the last 10 metres to take the gold medal in a timing of 15:14.75.
Asian Games: Stuck in second lane, Annu Rani produces season's best to win javelin gold
Annu has gone into depression as she had been able to produce her best effort throughout the year in competitions despite emerging as India's best javelin thrower in the last few years, winning medals at the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games and qualifying for the Olympics and World Athletics Championships.
Ehsan Hadadi loses men's discus gold for first time since 2006 Asian Games
Hadadi, the 38-year-old London Olympic Games silver medallist has won the Men's discus through for a record four editions of the Asian Games.
Asian Games: TT doubles pair; Parul, Priti, Ancy's medals take India to 60-medal mark
The bronze medal picked by Ayhika and Sutirtha is the only won by India in the 19th Asian Games and overall, the third bronze medal bagged by the country in table tennis in Asian Games adding to the team bronze in 2018 in Jakarta and bronze in mixed doubles won by Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra in 2018.
Asian Games: Everyone is really eager to win gold for the country and stand up on the podium, says Gaikwad
Gaikwad will be captaining the Indian team at the Asian Games when they take on Nepal in the quarter-final clash on Tuesday, also marking the first time the men’s cricket team is participating in the multi-sport event.
Asian Games: Ayhika, Sutirtha's brave fight ends in semis, bag maiden bronze medal in women's doubles table tennis
The Indian pair was bidding to win a historic maiden silver medal in the Asian Games table tennis competition but were thwarted by the North Korean pair that came back after losing the first game. Ayhika and Sutirtha lost the match 11-7, 8-11, 11-7, 8-11, 9-11, 11-5, 2-11 in a well-fought encounter.
Asian Games: Vithya Ramraj equals PT Usha's 40-year-old Women's 400m hurdles record, qualifies for the final
Vithya, who once contemplated quitting athletics altogether as things were not going well for her and was not able to make a breakthrough at the international stage, clocked 55.42 seconds in the heats for the 400m hurdles in Monday's morning session to equal one of the oldest records still existing in Indian athletics.
Asian Games: Nikhat Zareen bags bronze; Parveen Hooda enter 57kg semifinal, secures Paris 2024 Olympic quota
Nikhat lost to Raksat by a 3:2 split decision. Earlier this year, during the world championships' quarterfinals, the Indian boxer emerged victorious against Raksat in the quarterfinal match-up.
Asian Games: Lone ranger Avinash Sable wins maiden gold for India in 3000m steeplechase
It has worked sometimes but mostly, Sable has either finished second, like in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022, or faded away towards the finishing out of the medal race, like it happened in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, earlier this year.
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