Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 11, Indonesia

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Athletics - Men's Triple Jump Final
Gold - Arpinder Singh (IND) 16.77m
Silver - Ruslan Kurbanov (UZB) 16.62m
Bronze - Shuo Cao (CHN) 16.56
6. Rakesh Babu Arayan Veettil (IND) 16.40m

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Athletics - Women's Heptathlon
Gold - Swapna Barman (IND) 6026 pts.
Silver - Qingling Wang (CHN) 5954 pts.
Bronze - Yuki Yamasaki (JPN) 5873 pts.
4. Purnima Hembram (IND) 5837 pts.

P.C. to Rahul Pawar twitter handle
Athletics - Women's 200m Final
Gold - Edidiong Odiong (BRN) 22.96s
Silver - Dutee Chand (IND) 23.20s
Bronze - Yongli Wei (CHN) 23.27s

Athletics - Women's 20km Walk
4. Khushbir Kaur (IND) 1:35:24s

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Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles
[SF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND)l Chuqin Wang (CHN)/ Yingsha Sun (CHN) 9-11, 5-11, 13-11, 4-11, 8-11

[QF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Ji Song An (PRK)/ Hyo Sim Cha (PRK) 4-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-6, 11-8
[R16] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Sangsu Lee (KOR)/ Jihee Jeon (KOR) 11-7, 7-11, 11-8, 10-12, 11-4
[R32] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Javen Choong (MAS)/ Karen Lyne Dick (MAS) 11-2 11-5 11-8

In Athletics, Arpinder Singh gave surprising gold in the Triple Jump ... He jumped a modest 16.77m but others failed to jump ahead ... A young Indian, Swapna Barman, won a gold in Heptathlon ... She crossed 6000 points with her good performance in Javelin, 800m and 200m to win a gold comfortably ... Dutee Chand again ran a good race for winning a Silver in Women's 200m ... This was her second silver in this Asian Games ... In Women's 20km Walk, Khushbir Kaur finished on the 4th place but other walkers in the men's and women's events got dis-qualified.

Another historic medal in the table tennis ... Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra won a Bronze in Mixed doubles event ... They lost the semis after giving fighting performance against Chinese team ... Before that, they defeated the top-5 ranked Korean team in the close match.

We have 11 Gold, 20 Silver and 23 Bronze.

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