Category: 16th Asian Games
Sreedharan gets silver, Kavita settles for bronze in 5000m
Guangzhou: Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut clocked their personal bests to clinch the silver and bronze respectively in the women’s 5000m final of the Asian Games here on Friday. Sreedharan, who earlier clinched the 10,000m gold, returned a timing of 15:15.89. Raut, who bagged a silver in 10,000m, could not get past Sreedharan yet again [...]
India win sixth Asian Games gold in men’s kabaddi
Guangzhou: Barely hours after Indian women’s kabaddi team made a memorable Asian Games debut by clinching the gold, their male counterparts recorded their sixth consecutive yellow metal in the quadrennial event with a comfortable victory over Iran, here on Friday. The Indian men’s team, who clinched the gold in every edition of the quadrennial event [...]
China smash their Asian Games gold record
Guangzhou: China smashed their 20-year gold medal record at the Asian Games early on Friday when women’s karate fighter Feng Lanlan captured the delegation’s 184th title. The 26-year-old Asian champion Feng felled Japan’s Emiko Homma 3-0 with a single scoring blow to clinch gold in the 68kg kumite class. Kayaker Zhou Yu’s triumph in the [...]
Pakistan blast India over Games no-show
Guangzhou: Pakistan reopened old wounds with India on Friday by insisting their bitter rivals were wrong to snub the Asian Games by refusing to send a cricket team. Pakistan coach Sadiq Mohammad insisted that more pressure should have been put on India to respect the Guangzhou tournament, the first time the sport has featured at [...]
Indian women win kabaddi gold
Guangzhou: The Indian Women’s kabaddi team did justice to their favourite tag by winning the gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou on Friday. India beat Thailand 28-14 in the final to clinch the ‘yellow metal’. This medal took India’s overall gold tally to 11. Women’s kabaddi has made its debut in the [...]
We’ll have better performance in London Olympics: Gill
New Delhi: Sports Minister M S Gill on Friday said India’s brilliant performance in the ongoing Asian Games has set the foundation for a good medal haul in the 2012 Olympics in London. Gill said he was especially pleased with the Indian performance in the track and field events. “I am thrilled with the performance [...]
Organisers plan warm send-off for Asian Games athletes
Guangzhou: After mesmerising the audience with a unique opening ceremony at the Haixinsha Island, the Asian Games organisers are planning to give the participating athletes a fitting send off with a two-hour closing ceremony at the same venue here on Saturday. There will be an Indian touch to the closing with Mumbai-based playback singer Ravi [...]
Indian boxers impress AIBA chief
Guangzhou: Indian pugilists’ fantastic Asian Games performance has caught the eye of International Boxing Association chief Ching Kuo-Wu, who feels they are as good as their counterparts from traditional powerhouses such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. “The standard of boxing in both men’s and women’s competitions is quite high. I am really glad to see boxers’ [...]
Vikas ends boxing gold drought in Asiad, Dinesh gets silver
Guangzhou: Teen sensation Vikas Krishan ended Indian boxing`s 12-year-old gold medal drought in the Asian Games by winning the lightweight (60kg) title but Dinesh Kumar (81kg) settled for the silver after losing in the finals on Thursday. India had not won a boxing gold at the Asiad since 1998 when the flamboyant Dingko Singh fetched [...]
Pakistan win back hockey gold after 20 years
Guangzhou: Fired-up Pakistan annexed the Asian Games men`s hockey gold medal after 20 years with a convincing 2-0 win over Malaysia in the final on Thursday. Veteran Sohail Abbas put Pakistan ahead with his team`s first penalty corner in the 26th minute, before striker Rehan Butt increased the margin three minutes after half-time. It was [...]
