Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today India won 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze medals that lifted India to 6th position in Medal Standing ... India is having 14 Gold, 17 Silver and 33 Bronze medals ... We r having total 64 medals so we improved past record of winning total Gold and total medals ... In 1982 Delhi Asian games we won 13 Gold medals in total 57 medals ... So with that we r finishing our highest place in standing, i.e. on 6th position with highest Gold medals and total medals ... Congratulation to Indian contingent for creditable performance after playing big tournament, Commonwealth Games, just before a month.

In athletics our Women's 4 x 400m Relay team - Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur - managed to repeat their Commonwealth Gold medal run ... Today they won taking lead of a second over 2nd place Kazakhstan ... Again Ashwini ran excellent 3rd leg and that helped Mandeep to kept lead over Kazak ... This was Ashwini's 2nd Gold medal after her 400m Hurdles victory ... In Women's 5000m Final our both runners gave personal best timing to finished on 2nd and 3rd position ... Preeja Sreedharan was just 0.40 sec behind Gold medalist clocking 15:15.89 and Kavita Raut finished on third with 15:16.54 timing ... Excellent result for Preeja and Kavita.

Otherwise disappointing performance in athletics ... In Mens 4X100 we missed Bronze by 0.01 sec ... We finished race in 39.10 behind Bronze medalist Thai, whoc clocked 39.09 ... Our Men's 4 x 400m Relay team ended on 4th position with 3:06.49 ... In Men's Triple Jump Renjith Maheshwari jumped 16.76m to finished on 4th ... In Men's Shot Put Om Prakas managed to throw 19.17m to finished on 4th position ... In 10,000M Suresh Kumar ran a PB timing of 28.59.98 but that placed him 8th in final standing ... In Womens 4 x 100 M Relay we finished on 5th position.

In boxing in Men's 75kg Vijender Singh played control bout against Uzbek's Abbos Atoev ... Vijender sticked to basic in this bout and won all rounds with 2-0, 3-0 and 2-0 margin to won bout 7-0 to gave India their 2nd Gold medal in boxing ... In 64kg category our young boxer Santosh Kumar toued by Kazakhstan boxer Daniyar Yeleussinov ... Daniyar scored very impressive one-sided victory over Sanotsh Kumar, who wasn't inthe match from the start and lost 1-16 ... In Super Heavyweight Men's 91kg Manpreet Singh also lost easily against Syrian boxer Mohammad Ghossoun ... Mohammad didn't give Manpreet any chance in 8-1 win.

So in Boxing we finished with 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze medals ... I was expecting 3 Gold medals but overall satisfying performance by our bpxers.

In Kabaddi we won both men's and women's events ... This was expectation from the start but as expected both Iranian team gave us tough fight ... In Women's final we defeated Thailand 28-14 and Men's final we defeated Iran 37-20, where Iranians tried spirited comeback in second-half.

In Roller skating we recieved surprising 2 medals from Anup Kumar Yama, who finished 3rd in Men's Single Free Skating Long Program with 244.2 pts ... Then with Avani Bharath Kumar Panchal he won Bronze in Pairs Skating.

In chess our men side defeated Iran 3.5-0.5 to won Bronze but otherhand our women recieved another shocking defeat on hands of Vietnamese girls in tie-break after 2-2 draw.

In Men's volleyball we finished on respectable sixth position ... China defeated us in 5th position match 3-0, 18-25 17-25 18-25.

In wrestling only Suman Kundu managed to qualify for medal round but she lost easily in her bronze medal bout to a Chinese, 0-5.

Boxing - Men's 75kg
Gold - Vijender Singh (IND)
Silver - Abbos Atoev (UZB)
Bronze - Mohammad Sattarpour (IRI) and Danabek Suzhanov (KAZ)

Athletics - Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Gold - India 3:29.02
Silver - Kazakhstan 3:30.03
Bronze - China 3:30.89

Kabaddi - Women
Gold - India
Silver - Thailand
Bronze - Bangladesh and Iran

Kabaddi - Men
Gold - India
Silver - Iran
Bronze - Pakistan and Japan

Athletics - Women's 5000m Final
Gold - Mimi Belete Gebregeiorges (BRN) 15:15.59 PB
Silver - Preeja Sreedharan (IND) 15:15.89 PB
Bronze - Kavita Raut (IND) 15:16.54 PB

Boxing - Men's 64kg
Gold - Daniyar Yeleussinov (KAZ)
Silver - Santosh Kumar Virothu (IND)
Bronze - Wuttichai Masuk (THA) and Sanjarbek Rahmanov (UZB)

Boxing - Men's 91kg
Gold - Mohammad Ghossoun (SYR)
Silver - Manpreet Singh (IND)
Bronze - Ali Mazaheri (IRI) and Jakhon Qurbonov (TJK)

Roller Sports - Men's Single Free Skating Long Program
Gold - Shingo Nishiki (JPN) 253.8 pts
Silver - Chia Chen Yeh (TPE) 248.4
Bronze - Anup Kumar Yama (IND) 244.2 pts

Roller Sports - Pairs Skating
Gold - Yawen Lin/ Yunqin Tang (CHN)
Silver - Tzu Hsia Weng/ Li Hsin Chen (TPE)
Bronze - Anup Kumar Yama/ Avani Bharath Kumar Panchal (IND)

Chess - Men's Team
Gold - China
Silver - Philippines
Bronze - India

Boxing - Women's 69-75kg
Gold - Jinzi Li (CHN)
Silver - Undram Erdenesoyol (MGL)
Bronze - Kavita Goyat (IND) and Suyeon Seong (KOR)