Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 3, Indonesia

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Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Men
Gold - Saurabh Choudhary (IND) 240.7 pts. GR
Silver - Tomoyuki Matsuda (JPN) 239.7 pts.
Bronze - Abhishek Verma (IND) 219.3 pts.

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Shooting - 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men
Gold - Zicheng Hui (CHN) 453.3 pts.
Silver - Sanjeev Rajput (IND) 452.7 pts.
Bronze - Takayuki Matsumoto (JPN) 441.4 pts.

Shooting - Trap Mixed Team
6. India (Shreyasi Singh and Lakshay Sheoran) 16/25

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Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 68 kg - Bronze medal
Divya Kakran (IND) bt Wenling Chen (TPE) 10-0 (Victory by Technical Superiority, Period 1 - 1:29sec.)

[QF] Divya Kakran (IND) l Tumentsetseg Sharkhuu (MNG) 1-11 (Victory by Technical Superiority)

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Sepaktakraw - Men's Team Regu
[SF] India l Thailand 0-2 (Sandeep Kumar, Akash Yumnam, Henary Singh Wahengbam, Harish Kumar)

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Swimming - Men's 50m Freestyle
4. Virdhawal Khade (IND) 22.47sec.

In shooting under Men's 10m Air Pistol event, 16 yrs. old Saurabh Choudhary wins a gold beating World Champions, Olympic medalists and Olympians ... This was Saurabh's first senior international event ... He was behind double World Champion Tomoyuki Matsuda but Matsuda had poor, 8.9 pts., second lost shot and Saurabh took an advantage with hitting 10.2 pts. shot to lead ... Matsuda hit 10.3 pts on the final shot and Saurabh responded with 10.4 pts. shot to deserving gold medal ... His senior caompatriot Abhishek Verma won a bronze with 219.3 pts. ... Before that in the qualifying, Saurabh qualified on the top position with 586 pts. and Abhishek qualified for the 6th poisition with 580 pts.
In Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions final, an experienced Sanjeev Rajput won a silver, he becomes only third athlete from India to claim a shooting medal at four different Asian Games ... In the final, most of the time Sanjeev was leading but in the standing he hit 8.4 pts. shot and that put him away from a gold medal ... He won a silver with 452.7 pts. ... Before that in the qualifying, he qualified in the 7th position with 1160 pts.

In women's freestyle wrestling, Divya Kakran won a bronze beating Taipei wrestler comfortably in the medal match ... Before that, she lost in her first match against Mongolian superior wrestler 1-11.

India collects their first medal in sepaktakraw in Asian Games history ... They lifted a bronze after losing the semis against Thai team in Men's Team Regu.

In swimming, Virdhawal Khade missed a medal by whisker in Men's 50m Freestyle ... He came in the 4th position as losing a bronze by 0.01 second ... In the heat, he clocked a new nation record in the Men's 50m Freestyle with the timing of 22.43sec.

Yesterday, Indian men's hockey team defeated Indonesian team 17-0 and today, Indian women's team defeated Kazakhstan women's team 21-0 in one-sided match.

We have 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze.

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