Monday, August 27, 2018

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 9, Indonesia

PC to Suresh Raina twitter handle
Athletics - Men's Javelin Throw Final
Gold - Neeraj Chopra (IND) 88.06m NR
Silver - Qizhen Liu (CHN) 82.22m
Bronze - Arshad Nadeem (PAK) 80.75m
8. Shivpal Singh (IND) 74.11m

PC to Rajyavardhan Rathore twitter handle
Athletics - Women's Long Jump Final
Gold - Thi Thu Thao Bui (VIE) 6.55m
Silver - Neena Varakil (IND) 6.51m
Bronze - Xiaoling Xu (CHN) 6.50m
10. Nayana James (IND) 6.14m

PC to Rahul Pawar twitter handle
Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Abderrahman Samba (QAT) 47.66s GR
Silver - Dharun Ayyasamy (IND) 48.96s NR
Bronze - Takatoshi Abe (JPN) 49.12s
5. Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan (IND) 49.66s

PC to Rahul Pawar twitter handle
Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final
Gold - Winfred Yavi (BRN) 9:36.52s
Silver - Sudha Singh (IND) 9:40.03s
Bronze - Thi Oanh Nguyen (VIE) 9:43.83s
11. Chinta (IND) 10:26.21s

Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Final
4. Anu Raghavan (IND) 56.92s
T5. Jauna Murmu (IND) 57.48s

Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
8. Shankar Lal Swami (IND) 8:43.43s

PC to Rajyavardhan Rathore twitter handle
Badminton - Women's Singles
[SF] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) l Tzuying Tai (TPE,1) 17-21 14-21
[SF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,2) 21-17 15-21 21-10

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Intanon Ratchanok (THA,4) 21-18 21-16
[QF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Jindapol Nitchaon (THA,11) 21-11 16-21 21-14

[R16] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Fitriani (INA,40) 21-6 21-14
[R16] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (INA,22) 21-12 21-15

[R32] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Soraya Aghaeihajiagha (IRI,280) 21-7 21-9
[R32] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Thi Trang Vu (VIE,52) 21-10 12-21 23-21

In Athletics, we had a gold and three silvers on the 9th day ... In Men's Javelin Throw, a young Neeraj Chopra shattered a national record with a throw of 88.06m to win a gold in men's Javelin Throw ... He is showing tremendous consistency in his performance, which simply tells us volumes about his hard work! ... He was way ahead of the second place Chinese ... In Women's Long Jump, Neena Varakil jumped 6.51m to win a Silver ... All top-3 jumpers were within 5 centimeters ... In Men's 400m Hurdles, a young Dharun Ayyasamy created a national record after running inside 49 seconds to win a silver ... In Women's 3000m Steeplechase, Sudha Singh won a silver with a superb run behind favorite Winfred Yavi ... Anu Raghavan finished on the 4th position in Women's 400m Hurdles

In badminton, Sindhu and Saina created history as both become first Indian shuttlers to win Asian Games medal in the individual category ... Saina lost in straight games against WR #1 Tzuying Tai in straight games, so she won a bronze ... Sindhu has reached to the final with three games win over WR #2 Akane Yamaguchi and having a chance of a gold in the match against Tzuying Tai .

We have 8 Gold, 13 Silver and 20 Bronze.

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