India’s Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy And Chirag Shetty The pair has won a historic gold medal in the badminton men’s doubles event of the Asian Games by defeating South Korea’s Choi Solgyu and Kim Wonho in straight games 21-18, 21-16. The world number three Indian pair made several comebacks and won the first game in 29 minutes. In the second game, they put pressure on the 15th ranked opposing team and won in 57 minutes. Satwik and Chirag, who won a medal for India in the Asian Championships after 58 years in March this year, have also won a medal for India in the Asian Games after 41 years. Leroy D’Souza and Pradeep Gandhe had won bronze medals in 1982.
India’s best performance in Asian Games
Satwik and Chirag are the first Indian pair to win a gold medal in the Asian Games. He defeated former world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wui Yik in the semi-finals. This is India’s best performance in the badminton event of the Asian Games. India won men’s doubles gold, team silver and men’s singles bronze. India had won one silver and one bronze in Jakarta.
Indian pair will reach top in world ranking
With this victory, Satwik and Chirag will occupy the top position in the BWF world rankings. He won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 2022 Thomas Cup title and 2022 World Championships bronze. Both have also won Asian Championship gold, Indonesia Super 1000, Korea Super 500 and Swiss Open Super 300.
India won bronze in women’s hockey
Just two days after losing the semi-finals, the Indian women’s hockey team made a comeback with great courage by defeating Japan 2-1 and winning the bronze medal in the Asian Games. Coach Yanke Shopman could not control her tears on the field even after the hooter and seeing the players jumping with joy, it became clear what this bronze means to the team.
Women’s team lost to China in the semi-finals
India’s hopes of qualifying directly for the Paris Olympics were dashed with a 0-4 loss to China in the semi-finals. Despite this, the team bravely faced the challenge of Japan and won the bronze medal match. For the Indian team, which finished fourth in the Tokyo Olympics, Deepika scored in the fifth minute and Sushila Chanu scored in the 50th minute, while Yuri Nagai scored the only goal for Japan. The last time India won the silver medal was in the 2018 Games held in Jakarta.
Jyoti, Devtale’s hat-trick of gold, nine medals for Indian archers
India’s experienced compound archers Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Deotale scored a hat-trick of gold medals and with this, Indian archers won a record nine medals in these Asian Games. Compound archers broke Korea’s dominance by winning all five medals. Abhishek Verma got silver medal and Aditi Swami got bronze medal. Recurve archers had won two medals on Friday, which has happened for the first time in 13 years in the Olympic Games.
History created in archery
Earlier, India had won three medals in the 2014 Games held in Incheon. The team had won two silver medals in Jakarta. Current world champion Aditi Swami defeated Ratih Jilijati F of Indonesia in a one-sided playoff match for the bronze medal. 17-year-old Aditi, who won the World Championship title in Berlin two months ago, won 146-140. Later, Jyoti won her third gold by defeating So Chaewon of South Korea 149-145. She has won gold in mixed doubles and women’s team category.