The Indians bagged 15 gold medals during the day, dominating in each of the five disciplines that went to the podium rounds.
The biggest contribution to the Indian golden tally came from the pool, as the nation won seven of the eight finals, sinking three meet records in the process. Three more gold medals came from table tennis, two each from badminton and shooting, while boxers had to be satisfied with a sole win. The Indian gold tally stood at 54, once again making the regional multi-disciplinary sports meet a virtual no-contest. In swimming, the Indian gold count reached 25, leaving only four for the other participating nations.
Rehan Poncha won the men's m individual medley gold with a new meet mark of Arjun Muralidharan swam to glory in men's m butterfly, clocking Mandar Divase won the title in the men's m freestyle, Kishipra Mahajan bagged the top honours in women's m freestyle, Vir Dhaval Khade came first in men's m freestyle before the Indian quartet of Neeraja Balakrishna, Surabhi Tipri, Kishipra Mahajan and Puja Alva brought the curtain down on the day by ensuring a top podium finish in women's 4xm freestyle.
She finished in the 5th position in 10m Air Pistol final, in which Heena Sidhu fought hard to secure bronze. After a successful stint in Commonwealth Games , Indian fans were hopeful the Table Tennis contingent can end the year drought of an Asiad medal.
The double podium finishes in Table Tennis is regarded as one of the biggest highlights of India in the multi-sport competition. The year old managed to win a game, proving her mettle and her ability to make unexpected comebacks.
But it was not enough in the end to beat the Chinese. Sharath Kamal too went down in the Round of 16 after losing to 14th ranked Chih Yuan Chuang of Chinese Taipei , , , , The medal count from tennis could have been higher but for Leander Paes opting out late due to his demand of a specialised doubles partner not being met.
The late decision resulted in changes in team pairings and mixed doubles event getting the most affected. In singles, Prajnesh Gunneswaran won bronze medal while Ramkumar Ramanathan faltered early. The projection was of five medals and the Indian tennis team fell short. Another big disappointment for India at the Asian Games were the weightlifters. After bagging a total of 9 medals at the Commonwealth Games , which included 5 Gold medals, much was expected from the weightlifting contingent.
But things did not go as per planned at the Asian Games as Indian weightlifters failed to win a single medal. Ajay Singh finished in the 5th position in the same event with a total lift of kg. But a series of unexpected results saw them winning only three medals in freestyle wrestling, while no medal came from Graeco-Roman format. Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, India can take confidence from the fact that they secured two gold medals in the Wrestling, with Bajrang Punia winning the yellow metal in 65 kg Freestyle wrestling and Vinesh Phogat winning the top prize in Freestyle 50kg wrestling.
Apart from the two, Divya Kakran also won the bronze medal in Freestyle 68 kg wrestling for India. Making its multi-sport debut at the Asian Games, the card game proved to be a handy one excuse the pun with three medals.
Away from the rags to riches that dominate other sports, bridge is played by the richie rich where the age is no bar. Just ask the year-old Bardhan. India delivered a strong performance in the highly unrecognised sport of Equestrian. He won the silver medal in individual jumping with a score of In mixed martial arts events and disciplines of Kurash and Wushu, India picked up six medals with one silver and bronze coming in Kurash while four bronze medals arrived in wushu.
Indian men blanked Japan in their opening encounter of the day and then went on to secure their third straight preliminary league victory in the event, thrashing Saudi Arabia with an identical scoreline. In the women's section, Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal and Anaka Alankamony ripped apart the challenge of Chinese racqueters in the first outing.
They then secured a victory over arch-rivals Pakistan. India slumped to a defeat at the hands of defending champions China in their last round-robin match but still qualified for the bronze medal play-off game against Japan in women's hockey competitions.
With three wins and as many defeats, the Surinder Kaur-led side finished its round-robin league proceedings at fourth position with nine points and will get a chance to defend its bronze medal, which they earned four years ago in Doha. The Indian trio of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia fought through challenging conditions to clinch the men's team bronze after beating Chinese Taipei in the Archery competition.
Like the women, the Indian men defeated Chinese Taipei but with a more comprehensive margin as compared to the women's victory in the bronze medal play-off. Incidentally, both men and women lost to world's top archers from South Korea in the semifinals before clinching the bronze medal.
The Indians scored 28 and 29 for a total of 57 in the first set of six arrows, 56 29 and 27 in the second set and flagged a bit to get 53 26 and 27 in the third and 54 in the fourth and last set 27 and They shot a total of eight 10s and bulls eyes. In chess, Indian women drubbed Mongolia to climb to the joint top position while their male counterparts slipped to the fourth spot with a shocking defeat at the hands of lower-rated Philippines after the fifth round. In rugby, despite suffering heavy defeats in all three league matches, the Indian men's team qualified for the quarter finals as only nine teams are in the fray.
India, who were thrashed by Korea in the opening pool B match yesterday, were today drubbed by China and by sub-continental rivals Sri Lanka to finish at the bottom of the group. Yet, they qualified for the quarter finals and will play the winners of pool B at the University Town stadium on Tuesday. The women performed no better, and were steamrolled by Japan for their second straight preliminary league defeat after being thumped by Kazakhstan.
Indian cyclists continued to cut a sorry figure at the Games with the duo of Sombir and Atul Yadav finishing 27th and 32nd respectively in the men's Individual Road Race on Monday.
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