Vijender claims gold, tally touches 14

HISTORY WAS charted at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China when boxing’s pin up boy, Vijender Singh claimed gold, thus taking India’s gold medal graph to 14. The last gold haul was India’s best performance at the Asian Games so far.

To claim the 14th medal, Vijender pulverised Olympic bronze medalist, Uzbekistan's Abbos Atoev by a massive 7-0, which made the Indian spectators hysterical with the unbelievable win.

So far, India’s best performance had been during the 1982 Asian Games which was held in New Delhi. During the 1982 Games, India had clinched 13 gold, 19 silver and 25 bronze that led to a total of 57 medals.

The 25 year old, who has been compared with the likes of soccer players like David Beckham for his looks and crowd pulling ability compensated to the medal loss during the Commonwealth Games 2010 which were held in New Delhi.

Vijender’s performance on the penultimate day before the Games finally come to a close raised India’s hope of being somewhere where they could have never envisaged. However, China’s Zou Shiming retained his light-flyweight title.

With an addition of 11 more medals during the day, India’s medal graph raised to 14 gold, 17 silver and 33 bronze (total 64).

 

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India's stand in Asian Games 2010

INDIA WON two surprise gold medals after two days of average performance.
India's Ashwini Chidananda won a gold in the women's 400metres hurdles and Joseph Abraham clinched the gold in the men's category of he same even in the Asian Games 2010.

Ashwini outdid herself by clinching the gold with a timing of 56.15 to give India their 8th gold medal in the Games.

India’s performance was getting pretty uneventful for the past two days and these gold medals come as a pleasant surprise for all back home.

Another bronze was won by Mausam Khatri in men's 96 kg freestyle wrestling event, which made up for the disappointing performance of wrestlers earlier in he games.

Also, in hockey after the heart breaking loss to Malaysia in semi-finals, Indian team picked up the bronze after defeating Korea for it in the third-place playoff.

And with that bronze India finally ended the eight-year long wait of getting back on the podium in the sport. India won the last medal in hockey in the Asian Games 2002, in Busan.

Also, India broke Korea’s back as they have never missed a medal in the sport since the 1986 Asian Games, held in Seoul.

With these two gold medals, India beat Thailand to the 9th position. India now has a total of 9 gold medals, 13 silver and 29 bronze; that takes the total to 51.

China refuses to budge from the first position and has half of the gold medals of he whole event. China’s total is 370 medals followed by Korea with 217 medals and Japan on the 3rd position with 190 medals.

 

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Somdev wins second gold, creates history

SOMDEV HAS won India’s 7^th gold, a second for him after he grabbed a gold yesterday in the doubles event with Sanam Singh.

The duo bashed out Gong Maoxin and Li Zhe of China and followed in to the footsteps of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. They sailed into o the semi-finals after winning this gold medal, taking India’s gold to 6.
And today, Somdev becomes the first-ever Indian to win a gold at a men’s singles tennis event at the Asian Games.
Today’s match was against Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan and the match belonged to Somdev right from the start.
Somdev, whose international ranking is 106 faced Istomin, who achieved a world-ranking of 39 this year. Somdev was totally in form right from the beginning and it seemed Istomin was just not playing the part. Somdev shunned Istomin 6-1 6-2.
This gold can be called one of the most precious ones as it’s the first ever in its category. Somdev has surely created history for India.
What is interesting is that this historic gold has come from a rather lesser known face of Tennis and not from Leander Paes or our own BHupathi or even Sania. Its time we realized our potential truly and gave equal importance to all players. Somdev has outdone himself by taking on the way he did to the world no 39, Istomin in today’s match.
India’s medal tally now is 37 with 7 gold medals, 12 silver and 18 bronze.  India stands tall at 6^th position sharing it with Thailand. If Thailand wins another gold it could beat India to the 6^th position.
China sits comfortably at the top position with a whopping 311 medals comprising of 157 gold medals. Following China are Korea with 182 medals at 2^nd position and Japan at the 3^rd position with 158 medals.

 

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Medal tally after Golden Sunday at Asian Games

ATHLETICS IS where we shined on Sunday, with two gold medals and a silver, all in women’s category. Sudha Singh and Preeja Sreedharan both won a gold medal each in Women’s 3000m Steplechase and omen’s 10,000m events respectively. Whereas, Kavita Raut brought a silver in Women’s 10,000m event.

Ronjan Sodhi became our shooting star by grabbing a gold in men’s double trap shooting event. India was earlier pretty disappointed with the shooting events, Ronjan Sodhi became the answer to all prayers.

Indian wrestlers Ravinder Singh and Sunil Kumar Rana clinched bronze medals in their respective weight categories in the Greco-Roman style on Sunday. Two more bronze came our way in the shooting event of men’s double trap team event and women’s singles tennis event.
Sania lost to Uzbekistan's Amanmur in the singles event of tennis and got  a bronze for the same in quarterfinals.
The trio of Deepika Kumari, a gold medal winner in last month’s Commonwealth Games, Dola Banerjee and Rimil Buriuly lost the tense semifinal shootout to the Koreans 26-29  and won a bronze in the women’s team event.
All these medals above total up to 9 medals bringing the total number to 33. India stands at an appreciative 8^th rank at the Asian Games 2010.  
It is interesting to note that in the last Asian Games, 2006 held at Doha, India finished at the eighth position with a total of 53 medals.   Still 6 days to go, there is hope alive that we will finish better than the last games here in Guangzhou.

India defeats Pakistan 3-2 in Hockey; a bronze won in snooker at the Asian Games 2010

ANOTHER VICTORY adds up to the Indian kitty. India defeated Pakistan 3-2 in a group B men's hockey match at the Asian Games. It’s the third consecutive win for India versus Pakistan in recent times.

Earlier, Pakistan lost 1-4 to India in the World Cup in March and 7-4 more recently in the Commonwealth Games. This consecutive win makes it a hatrick.

In today’s match Sandeep Singh converted two penalty corners for India, while Dharamvir Singh slotted one. For Pakistan, Rehan Butt and Shakeel Abbasi scored the goals. India led 2-1 at half-time.
Elsewhere, India won silver in the men's golf team event. South Korea won the gold by a massive margin.

In other events Sania won the quarterfinal of the women's singles against Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand and moved to the semi-finals.

In men’s tennis, India's Somdev Devvarman and Karan Rastogi entered the men's singles quarterfinal earlier today.
Also, Aditya Mehta secured a surprise bronze after losing to Chun Marco Fu Ka of Hong Kong 1-4 in the semifinals of the men's snooker singles competition today.

Earlier in the event, gold winner Pankaj Advani was knocked by Junhui Ding of China in the men's snooker pre-quarterfinals while compatriot Aditya Mehta reached the last eight stage winning and bringing a bronze back home.

India's stand at the Asian Games 2010

THE ASIAN Games are better than ever before with India grabbing its maiden gold in rowing and silver in Wushu (which is a new addition) and progressing steadily in tennis and hockey. Shooting, another strong sport this year brought silver and a bronze.

India surely is doing well so far and fingers are crossed to see if the performance is continued. As far as the 7th day is concerned India had lot of action stored for keen followers.
Firstly, early morning India grabbed the long awaited second gold medal at the men’s singles rowing competition and soon after that Minz-Puhana won bronze in the rowing women's pair event. Another silver was added to the kitty in the Men's Eight rowing competition. So, rowing brought in a lot of applauds and the much awaited gold for India.

In tennis our own star Sania Mirza qualified to the quarterfinals and is inching closer towards the medal rounds. Hopes are set and pressure is mounting, such pressure only in a way prevented Saina- the badminton starlet to grab any of the medals as she lost in the quarterfinals early this morning.
After the early gold for India, India has landed in the 11th position in the medals tally with two gold medals. They were at 12th position at the start of the day. Malaysia is in 10th spot with three golds. If India wins another gold medal now, they will go past Malaysia because they have won eight silvers to Malaysia's three.

India gets second gold at Asian Games 2010

BAJRANG LAL Takhar created history by winning the first ever gold in rowing for India at the Men’s Singles Sculls competition.

Takhar, is an army office,r who also was the first Indian to win a silver medal at the Doha Asian Games in 2006, he led the 2,000 meter race right from the start and went on to take gold with a timing of 7:04.78. Chinese Taipei’s Wang Ming Hui (7:07.33) took the silver while Iraq’s Haeider Hamarasheid (7:10.10) won the bronze with a third place finish.

Following Takhar’s historic gold, India's Pratima Puhana and Pramila Prava Minz won the bronze medal in the women's pair rowing event.

With Takhar’s feat, India’s wait to get its second gold medal at this edition of the Asian Games also ended. The rowing competition came to an end with these. India has done great this year in the sport with three silver, one bronze and the latest gold.
Elsewhere in badminton, India’s strong medal hope Saina Nehwal crashed out of the women’s singles badminton quarterfinals, losing 8-21, 21-8, 19-21 to Hong Kong's Pui Yin Yip.

India’s long wait for another Gold ended today whereas a strong hope for another medal was crashed. Saina’s defeat is a major blow for her fans, as she was being touted as one of the lead players in the Asian Games.

India won two silver medals in rowing event and one bronze in shooting yesterday at the Asian Games 2010. Earlier this morning, a Gold was clinched by Bajrang Lal Takhar which will do wonders for India at the medal tally.