On Day 3, India have begun the day with third Gold medal as 16-year-old Saurabh Chaudhary set a Games record in the 10m Air Pistol, with Abhishek Verma adding a second medal with Bronze.
Saurabh clinched the gold after a score of 240.7 while Abhishek stood third scoring 219.3. Tomoyuki Matsuda of Japan secured the silver with 239.7.
Earlier, first one to qualify for the finals today was been the Rower Dattu Bhokanal in the Men’s Singles Sculls through repechage. Also later on as the day progresses, India will be taking their chances at getting a Gold in Sepak Takraw Men’s team event where they are assured of a medal after making it to the semi-finals against Thailand.
Day-2: Vinesh Phogat expectedly delivered a historic wrestling gold, at the shooting ranges of Palembang, Deepak Kumar (10m air rifle) and Lakshay Sheoran (men’s trap) added the silver touch and an unexpected podium finish was assured in Sepak Takraw on a fairly good day for India at the 18th Asian Games here. Adding to the cheer was the defending gold-medallist men’s team’s 17-0 hammering of hosts Indonesia in its pool A opener.
This post was published on August 21, 2018 5:13 pm