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Silver lining
Four boxers in finals
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Mary, Kavita end with bronze
Indian eves’ medal dream over
Gowda flops, Tintu shines
Ranji: Himachal restrict UP
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The archer who made up for an off-colour Rahul Banerjee, said after his silver-winning achievement that the performance of the Indian archers here has shown they can compete with Koreans. "Korean archers are extremely good. They train five to seven hours a day and we train ten hours per day. I hope that some day we will win the gold and rule the world," he said. "I tried my best but missed points in the fourth and fifth sets and lost them by one and two point margins, but I am happy with my performance." The country's best known woman archer and former world No. 1 Dola Banerjee hailed the achievement of the archers who have culled one individual silver and two team bronze medals here. "We are going home with three medals, two bronze and one silver medal. This is the best showing by the Indian archers in the Asian Games. In the last Games in Doha, we had only one bronze medal in the boys' team event. Here we won the silver in the individual event and a women's team medal (bronze) for the first time," she said. Dola, elder sister of Rahul, also felt that the display by the archers here would help in raising the sport's profile in India. "It would have been great if Tarun had won the gold, but this was a great performance. The performance here will help the sports and arches back home," she added. Archery Association of India also expressed a similar wish with secretary Paresh Mukhrerjee hailing Rai's achievement. "The youngster performed superbly. His silver medal will give a big boost to the sport back home." Rai entered the gold medal match by easily overcoming Vietnam's Trong Kien Dao 5-1 and then stunning fancied Korean 6-4 in the quarter finals. The set score was 26-27, 30-26, 28-28, 29-27 and 28-28. A set victory fetches two points and a tie one point in the best-of-five clashes. Buoyed by this super effort, the Indian shot past Chinese Taipei's Chia Chun Sung 7-3 in the semifinal before coming a cropper in the final and settled for the silver. He won his semifinal against Sung 29-29, 26-20, 30-27, 28-26, 29-28 but was unable to recreate the magic against Woojin and lost 28-28, 27-28, 29-28, 27-28, 27-29 and settled for second place. — PTI
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Guangzhou, November 24 Vijender outpunched Iran's Mohammad Sattapour to cruise into the finals and keep himself on course for a gold medal in the 75 kg category. Manpreet Singh also moved into the finals in 91 kg. The 18-year-old Vikas outwitted Uzbekistan’s Hurshid Tojibaev 7-0 to make the finals where he would be facing China’s Qing Hu. Later, Dinesh also had little trouble in dispatching Nepal’s Deepak Maharjan 7-1 and set up a final clash against Uzbekistan’s Elshod Rasulov. However, Commonwealth Games gold medallists Suranjoy Singh (51kg) and Paramjeet Samota (+91kg) had to be content with bronze medals after losing in the semifinals in contrasting fashion. While Suranjoy lost 5-6 to China’s Chang Yong in a thriller-of-a-contest, Samota was all at sea against Zhilei Zhang before the referee stopped the contest midway through the third round and awarded the bout to the home favourite. Suranjoy was the first to enter the ring for India in the men’s competition and was 0-3 down against Yong in the opening round. But the 24-year-old Manipuri, who has won seven international gold medals since April 2009, roared back with his trademark left hooks to make it 5-5 in the second round. In the third round, the diminutive Manipuri, nicknamed “Chhota Tyson”, was unlucky not to get points for some body blows even as Yong managed to land the all-important scoring punch to just about edge past Suranjoy. Next up was Vikas and he ensured that smiles returned to the Indian camp with a composed performance in which he mixed caution with aggression. Vikas showed fantastic temperament against his more experienced opponent. — PTI
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Mary, Kavita end with bronze
Guangzhou, November 24 Mary, who has won five world titles in 46kg and 48kg category, lost 7-11 to reigning 51kg world champion Ren Cancan of China. Kavita, on the other hand, went down 1-5 to another Chinese, Jinzi Li, in her last-four stage bout. Mary, who turned 28 today, conceded a slender 1-3 lead to Cancan in the opening two minutes and all through the bout, the Indian was left to chase the local favourite. The Manipuri mother-of-two, who is a Khel Ratna awardee and has been dubbed “Magnificent Mary” by the International Boxing Association, tried to fight back in the final two minutes but Cancan managed to hold her own to come out triumphant. Earlier, Kavita was beaten comprehensively by Li at the Foshan Gymnasium here. The Indian’s only scoring punch of the bout came in the opening round, in which the home favourite managed three. Both boxers failed to get on the score sheet in the next two rounds. In the final two minutes, Li managed to seal the issue in her favour by knocking off a couple of points. The third Indian in fray, Preeti Beniwal (60kg), had crashed out after injuring her knee during her quarterfinal bout. — PTI |
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Guangzhou, November 24 With this win, Doha Games silver medallist Japan has managed to avoid the ignominy of finishing out of the medal bracket. The Indians, on the other hand, will be a disappointed lot and will return home empty handed after failing to defend their Doha bronze. The win also ensured a clean slate for Japan against India in the quadrennial event after having beaten the Surinder Kaur-led side 3-0 in the group stages. In the bronze medal play-off tie today, the Indians displayed far from impressive hockey as Japan controlled the proceedings from the word go. On more than one occasion, the Indians were undone by poor trapping and some sloppy defensive work, which resulted in as many as 10 penalty corners for Japan out of which they converted one. To add to it, there was no co-ordination between the Indian midfield and forwardline and the girls were guilty of unnecessarily holding on to the ball. — PTI
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Guangzhou, November 24 It was more than a metre and a half short of Mysore-born, US-raised Gowda's three-year-old personal and national best mark of 64.96m. Nor could he improved upon his CWG silver-winning effort of 63.69m. The only consolation was that he improved his position by two places after finishing sixth in the 2006 Games at Doha. The gold medal was won by Ehsan Hadadi of Iran with a near 7-metre throw of 6.99m which he achieved in his fifth attempt while the silver and bronze medal winners Dheeb Ahmed Mohammed and Samimi Mohammed were well behind. — PTI
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Squash: Men, women bag bronze
Kabaddi: India reach semis
Gold medal favourites and holders India stormed into the semifinals of the Asian Games men’s kabaddi competition, along with their women counterparts after registering easy wins in their preliminary round here today.
India, who have grabbed every men’s gold in the South Asia-invented game since its debut in 1990, drubbed Korea 37-19, after leading 19-10 at halftime, to enter the last four and top the three-team Group A with four points.
Their women counterparts ran into the Koreans and crushed them 47-21 (20-11) to advance to the semis. India would clash with Japan in the men’s semifinals while in the other semifinal match Pakistan face Iran. In the women's semis, India would take on Iran and Thailand would line up against Bangladesh. Wrestlers lose out on bronze
Indian grapplers Ram Vir (84kg) and Pradeep Kumar (66kg) cut a sorry figure as both lost their respective bronze medal play-offs in the freestyle wrestling competition to round off another disappointing day in the Asian Games here today. Vir, who straight away got an entry into the bronze medal play-off round after losing his semifinal bout, was hardly any match to his opponent -- Mongolia's Usukhbaatar Purvee as he went down 1-3 in 18 minutes 25 seconds. Pradeep Kumar, meanwhile, won his repechage round 1 bout against Kyrgyzstan's Azat Donbaev to set up a fight with Song Chun Yang of North Korea in the bronze medal bout but failed to sustain and got thrashed by an identical margin. Spikers blank Qatar again
Indian men got the better of Qatar for the second time in the Asian Games volleyball competition by beating them in straight sets during the 5-8 placement round at the Guangyao Gymnasium, here today. India, who scored a 25-23, 25-16, 25-17 victory in one hour and two minutes, would now play-off for the 5-6 positions on Friday, while Qatar has been relegated to the 7th-8th placement round. India, who lost to Thailand in the quarterfinals to bow out of the medal race, had beaten Qatar by the same margin on November 20. — Agencies |
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Ranji: Himachal restrict UP
Kanpur, November 24 Uttar Pradesh's batsmen found the going tough against the pace generated by the trio of Dhawan, Anurag Thakur (2/39) and Kuldeep Diwan (2/27), and were reduced to 125 for 6 in 50 overs. — PTI |
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Tarundeep Rai rewrote history in the archery competitions at the Asian Games when he became the first Indian individual medal winner finishing second behind South Korean world record holder Kim Woojin a the Aoti archery range today.
Teen sensation Vikas Krishan (60kg) and Dinesh Kumar (81kg) made their way into finals with comprehensive wins but two other Indians had to settle for bronze medals.
Guangzhou, November 24
A listless India finished a disappointing fourth in the women’s hockey event of the Asian Games after going down to Japan 0-1 via golden goal in the bronze medal play-off match at the Aoti hockey field here today. India, who claimed the bronze four years ago in Doha, were buried by Keiko Manabe's 78th minute golden goal after both sides failed to break the deadlock in time.
Guangzhou, November 24
Both Indian men's and women's squash teams settled for bronze after losing their respective semifinal ties in the Asian Games, here today. While, men lost to arch-rivals Pakistan 0-2, Indian eves also slumped to defeat at the hands of favourites Malaysia by an identical margin. Although, both Siddharth Suchde and Saurav Ghosal put up some resistance but they could not overcome the challenge posed by the Pakistanis to lose 1-3 each and settle for a bronze medal along with Hong Kong. Hong Kong in turn lost to Malaysia 0-2. Suchde, after losing the first set, though came back strongly to bag the second but eventually went on to lose 14-16 12-10 9-11 5-11 in 83 minutes. It was almost the similar story for Ghosal as well, who also managed to bag the second set just like his compatriot Suchde, but failed to come good in the other three sets to get beaten 13-15 11-5 5-11 6-11 in a clash that lasted 52 minutes.