Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

After winning 3 Gold medals India moved to 8th position with 10 Gold, 14 Silver and 29 Bronze medals.

In athletics in Women's 400m Hurdles Final Ashwini Akkunji produced personal best timing to win Gold medal ... So this is our first Gold medal in 400m Hurdles after 24 yrs when P.T. Usha won it ... Jauna Murmu also clocked personal best timing, 56.88, but she missed bronze medal by 0.06 sec.

In athletics in Men's 400m Hurdles Final Joseph Abraham clocked his season best timing below 50 sec to won Gold medal.

In Women's 800m Final, I was expecting Gold from Tintu but she couldn't produce her personal best timing and finished third behind Kazakhstan and Vietnam runners who clocked personal best timing ... In Women's 200m Final Geetha Satti finished on 5th position with 23.91 timing, this was her season best timing ... Men's 200m Final Sathya Suresh finished on 7th place with 21.07 timing.

In boxing in Men's 60kg category 18 yrs old Vikas Krishan won his first Asian game Gold medal in closely fought match against local favourite Qing Hu ... After first round both boxers were equal with 1-all .. In second round Vikas scored important points to won it 3-2 and in end that turned crucial as in third round both boxers managed to score 1 pt ... So Vikas won this gold medal bout 5-4 ... But in Men's 81kg Dinesh Kumar couldn't manage to produce much fight against Uzbek after first round ... He lost bout easily 4-10 to remained happy with Silver.

Indian men managed to win Bronze medal in field hockey beating South Korea ... This was good result after their poor unexpected loss against Malaysian side ... Tushar Khandekar scored important goal in 40th minte and that was the only goal scored in the match ... Pakistan won gold medal beating Malaysian side 2-0 and grabbed Olympics quota.

In wrestling in Men's Freestyle 96 kg Mausam Khatri won Bronze medal beating South Korean Jaegang Kim 3-1 ... This was India's 3rd bronze medal in wrestling.

In Kabaddi Indian men scored convicing victory over Japanese side 52-17 to moved in the final, they will face Iran in the final who defeated Pakistan in close match ... On women side Indian women managed to avoid defeat and won in very close match against Iranian women, 23-22 ... In the final they r playing against Thai women.

In chess Men's Team event India lost against lower rated Philippines team 1.5-2.5 in semis ... Harikrishna scored win against higher rated Wesley So but Sasikiran anf Gopal lost their matches ... In Women's Team India also lost against lower rated Uzbekistan team in semis ... Harika scored win in her match but Eesha Karavade and Nisha Mohota disappointed in their losses.

In women's volleyball Indian team finished on 9th position beating Maldives comfortably 3-0, 25-4 25-5 25-7.

Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Ashwini Chidananda Akkunji (IND) 56.15 PB
Silver - Xing Wang (CHN) 56.76
Bronze - Satomi Kubokura (JPN) 56.83

Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Joseph Abraham (IND) 49.96 SB
Silver - Bandar Yahya Sharahili (KSA) 50.29
Bronze - Naohiro Kawakita (JPN) 50.37

Boxing - Men's 60kg
Gold - Vikas Krishan (IND)
Silver - Qing Hu (CHN)
Bronze - Soonchul Han (KOR) and Hurshid Tojibaev (UZB)

Boxing - Men's 81kg
Gold - Elshod Rasulov (UZB)
Silver - Dinesh Kumar (IND)
Bronze - Deepak Maharjan (NEP) and Fanlong Meng (CHN)

Hockey - Men
Gold - Pakistan
Silver - Malaysia
Bronze - India

Athletics - Women's 800m Final
Gold - Margarita Matsko (KAZ) 2:00.29
Silver - Thanh Hang Truong (VIE) 2:00.91
Bronze - Tintu Lukka (IND) 2:01.36

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 96 kg
Gold - Reza Yazdani (IRI)
Silver - Kurban Kurbanov (UZE)
Bronze - Mausam Khatri (IND) and Takao Isokawa (JPN)

Boxing - Women's 48-51kg
Gold - Cancan Ren (CHN)
Silver - Annie Albania (PHI)
Bronze - Mary Kom (IND) and Aya Shinmoto (JPN)

Boxing - Men's 52kg
Gold - Rey Saludar (PHI)
Silver - Yong Chang (CHN)
Bronze - Suranjoy Singh (IND) and Katsuki Susa (JPN)

Boxing - Men's +91kg
Gold - Zhilei Zhang (CHN)
Silver - Ivan Dychko (KAZ)
Bronze - Paramjeet Samota (IND) and Roohollah Hosseini (IRI)

Squash - Men's Team
Gold - Pakistan
Silver - Malaysia
Bronze - India and Hong Kong

Squash - Women's Team
Gold - Malaysia
Silver - Hong Kong
Bronze - India and South Korea