Asian Games 2023: 12th day was great for India, will the figure of 100 be crossed?

The 12th day of the Asian Games 2023 was a great day for India. India won three gold, one silver and one bronze medal today. With this the total number of posts in India has increased to 86. India has currently reached fourth place in the medal table. The discussion is on whether India can take its medal tally to 100? If this happens, then the performance of Indian players will be golden in this Asian Games. The day started off great. Indian women’s compound team won the gold medal. At the same time, Deepika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu won the mixed doubles title by defeating the Malaysian pair in straight games in the final but Saurav Ghoshal had to be content with silver. The men’s compound archery team won the gold medal in the archery event of the Asian Games. Prannoy secured a medal by making it to the semi-finals while Sindhu lost. The final won bronze. At the same time, the Indian women’s hockey team’s dream of winning gold was shattered after losing to China.

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India’s women’s team won the Asian Games gold medal in a tough fight on Thursday, while the men’s team did not have to sweat much for the title, due to which India’s compound archers made a clean sweep by winning gold medals in all three team events. India thus carried forward its best ever campaign in the archery event of the Asian Games. The women’s compound team came back from behind and defeated Chinese Taipei by one point in the thrilling final.

– India’s Maan Singh and Appachangada Bo Belliappa finished eighth and 12th respectively in the men’s marathon event of the Asian Games here on Thursday. Man Singh completed the marathon in 2 hours 16 minutes 59 seconds while Belliappa took 2 hours 20 minutes 52 seconds. Maan Singh and Belliappa were three minutes 57 seconds and seven minutes 50 seconds behind the winner respectively.

Seven-time champions India’s men’s Kabaddi team defeated Chinese Taipei 50-27 in Group A here on Thursday to reach the semi-finals and ensure a medal in the Asian Games. With this victory, India has reached the top of the points table while the Chinese Taipei team is in second place.

– India’s top singles player HS Prannoy defeated Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia in a thrilling three-game men’s singles quarter-final here on Thursday to ensure a badminton medal for India but PV Sindhu had to face defeat in the women’s singles. . World number seven Prannoy, who was suffering from a back injury, defeated world number 16 Jiya 21-16 21-23 22-20 in the quarterfinal match that lasted 78 minutes.

– India’s Deepika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu won the squash mixed doubles title by defeating the Malaysian pair in straight games in the final on Thursday and also ensured India’s best performance in the Asian Games. Deepika and Harinder defeated Aifa binti Ajman and Mohammed Syafiq bin Mohammed Kamal 11-10 11-10 in the final in 35 minutes. India had won the gold medal in the men’s team event in 2014, which was the team’s best performance.

Indian women’s hockey team’s dream of directly qualifying for the Paris Olympics by winning the gold medal in the Asian Games was defeated by three-time champion China in the semi-finals. Collapsed with a loss of 4. The Indian team, which won the silver medal last time, is ranked seventh in the world rankings and was the highest-ranked team in the Asian Games. However, world number 12 team and last time bronze medalist China did not allow them to play freely.

Young star Anant Panghal won the bronze medal in the Asian Games by defeating Tokyo Olympic medalist Bolortuya Bat Ochir 3.1 while the rest of the Indian wrestlers were disappointed in wrestling. The 19-year-old final made a strong comeback in the bronze medal match after losing the semi-finals in the women’s 53 kg category to two-time world champion Akari Fujinami of Japan. He did not give the Mongolian opponent a chance to dominate.