Friday, August 24, 2018

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 6, Indonesia

PC to Sachin Tendulkar twitter handle
Rowing - Men's Quadruple Sculls
Gold - India (Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash, Sukhmeet Singh) 6:17.13s
Silver - Indonesia 6:20.58s
Bronze - Thailand 6:22.41s

PC to Lakshya FB page
Rowing - Men's Lightweight Double Sculls
Gold - Masayuki Miyaura (JPN)/ Masahiro Takeda (JPN) 7:01.70s
Silver - Byunghoon Kim (KOR)/ Minhuk Lee (KOR) 7:03.22s
Bronze - Rohit Kumar (IND)/ Bhagwan Singh (IND) 7:04.61s

PC to Lakshya FB page
Rowing - Men's Lightweight Single Sculls
Gold - Hyunsu Kim (KOR) 7:12.86s
Silver - Hin Chun Chiu (HKG) 7:14.16s
Bronze - Dushyant (IND) 7:18.76s

Rowing - Men's Lightweight Eight
4. India 6:15.00s

Rowing - Women's Four
6. India (Sanjukta Dung Dung, Annu, Navneet Kaur, Yamini Singh) 7:43.49s

PC to Divij's FB page
Tennis - Men's Doubles Gold Medal match
Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Aleksandr Bublik (KAZ)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ)

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Uesugi Kaito (JPN)/ Shimabukuro Sho (JPN) 46 63 10-8
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Chengpeng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 63 57 10-1
[R16] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Kadchapanan Nuttanon (THA)/ Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA) 63 61
[R32] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt David Agung Susanto (INA)/ Ignatius Anthony Susanto (INA) 63 63

PC to Prajnesh's FB page
Tennis - Men's Singles
[SF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) l Denis Istomin (UZB,75) 26 26

[QF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) bt Soonwoo Kwon (KOR,273) 67(2) 64 76(6)
[R16] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) bt Nam Hoang Ly (VIE,515) 63 57 64
[R32] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) bt M Rifqi Fitriadi (INA,1486) 62 60

Kabbadi - Women's Team Gold Medal match
India l Iran 24-27

PC to Heena Sidhu FB page
Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Women
Gold - Qian Wang (CHN) 240.3 pts. GR
Silver - Minjung Kim (KOR) 237.6 pts.
Bronze - Heena Sidhu (IND) 219.2 pts.
5. Manu Bhaker (IND) 176.2 pts.

Shooting - 300m Standard Rifle Men
4. Harjinder Singh (IND) 560 pts.
5. Amit Kumar (IND) 559 pts.

Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Balance Beam Final
5. Dipa Karmakar (IND) 12.500 pts.

Swimming - Men's 50m Breaststroke Final
7. Sandeep Sejwal (IND) 27.98sec

In Rowing, after yesterday's disappointment, our rowers lifted three medals ... In Men's Quadruple Sculls, Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash and Sukhmeet Singh won a gold ... In Men's Lightweight Double Sculls, Rohit Kumar and Bhagwan Singh won a bronze and in Men's Lightweight Single Sculls, Dushyant won a bronze.

In the tennis, Rohan and Divij gave a first gold medal in the tennis of this Asian games ... In the final, they defeated Kazakh pair comfortably ... Prajnesh lost easily against Istomin in the semis, so with that, he also confirmed a bronze.

In shooting under Women's 10m Air Pistol event, Heena Sidhu lifted a bronze ... She was an early behind but raised her shooting to win a medal ... Young Manu Bhaker finished on the 5th position, this tournament turned out to be a learning experience for our talented shooter ... Manu is capable of winning the Olympic medal ... Before that in the qualifying, Manu finished on the 3rd position with 574 pts. and Heena finished on the 7th position with 571 pts.
In 300m Standard Rifle Men, our both shooters, Harjinder Singh and Amit Kumar, finished outside medal as they finished on the 4th and the 5th respectively.

Our disappointing performance continued in Kabaddi ... In the women final Iran defeated Indian women in a close match ... Iran becomes the first team to beat India in women's kabbadi.

Dipa Karmakar finished in the 5th position in the final of Women's Balance Beam.

In Men's 50m Breaststroke final, Sandeep Sejwal finished on the 7th position,

We have 6 Gold, 5 Silver and 14 Bronze.

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