Asian Games 2014 Live: India raking in the medals on Day 8

IArchery Compound gold Medal match

India's Abhishek Verma is only good enough for the silver. Esmaeil Ebadi of Iran was just too good in the final. Here is how it went:

3 arrows: Ebadi 28, Verma 29
6 arrows: Ebadi 57, Verma 56
9 arrows: Ebadi 86, Verma 82
12 arrows: Ebadi 115, Verma 112
15 arrows: Ebadi 145, Verma 141

Wrestling

- India's Vinesh lost 4-6 against Eri Tosaka of Japan in Women's Freestyle 48 kg Semi-final.
- India's Geetika Jakhar loses to China's Xiluo Zhuoma in Women's Freestyle 63 kg Semifinal Bout. The Indian was trailing 11-2 before she was pinned to the mat.

Archery women's compound bronze medal match

Trisha Deb has won the bronze in a thriller. She was trailing her opponent from Chinese Taipei Huang I Jou with just two arrows to go when Jou missed her second last shot completely -- getting a zero. Trisha shot a 9 and went into the lead and won 138-134. The diminutive Indian just couldn't believe her luck.

Squash team final

India's Anaka Alankamony lost the first match against Arnold Delia 9-11, 10-12, 2-11. Dipika Pallikal lost the 2nd match to David Nicol Ann. India lose to Malaysia 0-2 in Women's team gold medal match. That is another silver for India.

Wrestling

Women's Freestyle 63 kg Quarterfinal
India's JAKHAR Geetika beat Thailand's AUTNUN Jaratrawee 5-0 and is through to the semis.

Women's Freestyle 48 kg Quarterfinal
YAKHSHIMURATOVA Dauletbike(UZB) loses to Vinesh(IND) 0-5. Vinesh is through to the semis.

Archery

Compound Men's Individual Semifinal
MAHAZAN Muhammad Zaki Bin loses to VERMA Abhishek. The Indian archer who was superb in the team competition as well is through to the individual final.

End of 1st series: Mahazan 24, Verma 28
End of 2nd series: Mahazan 50, Verma 57
End of 3rd series: Mahazan 76, Verma 86
End of 4th series: Mahazan 106, Verma 114
End of 5th series: Mahazan 135, Verma 143

Boxing

The Women's Fly (48-51kg) Round of 16 match: Mary Kom has an easy win over Kim Yeji of Korea. She won all the rounds easily -- kept coming forward and looked very sharp.

Table Tennis

Women's Team Preliminary Round Group A
India vs Malaysia: India (GHATAK Poulomi, BATRA Manika, AGGARWAL Neha) won 3-0.

Men's Team Preliminary Round Group B
India vs Kuwait: India (GHOSH Soumyajit, ACHANTA Sharath Kamal and ANTHONY ARPUTHARAJ Amalraj) won 3-0.

Tennis

- India's S Mirza/P Thombare beat Thailand's Peangtarn/Nicha 6-1, 7-6 to enter women's doubles semifinal.
- India's Sanam Singh loses to Chinese Taipei's LU Yen Hsun 6-7, 4-6 in Men's Singles Quarterfinal.
- India's Yuki Bhambri makes it to the semis with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Thailand's Udomchoke Danai.

Archery

Compound Women's Individual Semifinal
DEB Trisha(IND) lost to SEOK Jihyun(KOR) 140-145.

50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's Final

India's Chain Singh waves after winning bronze. AP

Chain Singh is in third place after the kneeling segment with 150.7 pts. There are two Chinese shooters ahead of him. He has continued to shoot well in the prone segment to maintain his 3rd place with a total of 305.1 pts. Now, the standing eliminations will begin.

And Chain has managed to bag the bronze with a total of 441.7 pts. He was level with China's KANG Hongwei after three shots in the standing but then he stringed together a series of good shots to clinch the bronze.

Wrestling

Men's Freestyle 70 kg 1/8 Final: Parveen Rana loses Japan's Kojima Takafumi 3-2. Parveen had taken the place of injured veteran Sushil Kumar.

Men's Freestyle 57 kg 1/8 Final: India's Amit Kumar loses to Japan's Morishita Fumitaka. It was 2-2 when time ran out but the Japanese went through by virtue of scoring the last point.

Women's Freestyle 63 kg 1/8 Final: JAKHAR Geetika(IND) has beaten LARIONOVA Yekaterina(KAZ) and is through to the quarters.

Women's Freestyle 48 kg 1/8 Final: Vinesh(IND) beats PAK Yongmi(PRK) to make it to the semis. She was trailing going into the final 20 seconds but managed to turn things around and win 3-1.

Compound Men's GOLD Medal Match: India vs Korea

The Indian team of CHAUHAN Rajat, KUMAR Sandeep and VERMA Abhishek have beaten Korea's CHOI Yonghee, MIN Lihong, YANG Youngho.

After 3 arrows: Korea 26, India 27
After 6 arrows: Korea 54, India 55
After 9 arrows: Korea 82, India 84
After 12 arrows: Korea 110, India 113
After 15 arrows: Korea 140, India 142
After 18 arrows: Korea 169, India 171
After 21 arrows: Korea 195, India 199
After 24 arrows: Korea 224, India 227

The Indian team was simply too good. AP

50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's Qualification

India's Chain Singh has finished the qualifying in 7th place -- 1164-51x. He makes it to the final but Sanjeev Rajput (12th) and Gagan Narang (15th) didn't have a great outing.

India also finished 4th in the team event behind China (gold), Korea (silver) and Japan (bronze).

Compound Women's Team Bronze Medal Match: India vs Iran

The Indian team comprises of DEB Trisha, SUDHIR SHENDE Purvasha, VENNAM Jyothi Surekha and Iran archers are GHASEMPOUR Sakineh, RANJBARSARI Maryam, SARLAK Shabnam.

After 3 arrows: Iran 24, India 28
After 6 arrows: Iran 53, India 56
After 9 arrows: Iran 80, India 84
After 12 arrows: Iran 107, India 110
After 15 arrows: Iran 135, India 139
After 18 arrows: Iran 162, India 167
After 21 arrows: Iran 191, India 195
After 21 arrows: Iran 217, India 224

50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's Qualification

Gagan Narang would be looking for another medal. AP

Gagan Narang in action again alongwith Chain Singh and Sanjeev Rajput.

Shooters offer silver lining, Sejwal gets bronze -- day 7 roundup

India bagged their second silver in the 17th Asian Games as the men's shooting team finished second in the 25 metre center fire pistol event while an unlikely bronze came from swimmer Sandeep Sejwal here Friday.

With the tally at 17 medals, including one gold and two silver, India dropped a place to the 16th spot behind tiny nations like Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, Kuwait. China continues to lead the table with 179 medals, including a whopping 91 gold medals, followed by hosts South Korea (104 including 31 golds) and Japan (107 including 30 gold medals) in the second and the third place respectively.

While another gold medal eluded India for the sixth consecutive day, India can still hope for two more gold medals as the men and women's squash team put on a spirited show to qualify for the finals, assuring themselves of at least a silver medal which is an improvement on the bronze they had collected four years ago.

Earlier in the day, the trio of Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet Singh and London Olympics silver medallist Vijay Kumar scored a combined 1740-68x to finish behind China's team of Yongde Jin, Chuanlin Li and Feng Ding, who fired 1742-56x to take gold.

Tamang shot 288-22x (93, 99, 96 in precision and 99, 97, 97 in rapid) while Gurpreet scored 292-25x (98, 99, 95 in precision and 95, 96, 97 in rapid). Vijay shot 285-21x (95, 94, 96 in precision and 100, 98, 96 in rapid) to help India get their 16th overall medal and eighth from the shooting range.

South Korea, with the team of Youngmin Kim, Daekyu Jang and Jinil Kim, scored 1739-54x to win bronze.

However, none of the Indians managed to finish on the podium in the individual event. Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet and Vijay finished eighth, ninth and 12th, respectively. The individual gold went to Qatar's Oleg Engachev while China's Jin took silver and Singapore's Bin Gai won bronze.

Meanwhile, the Indian women's team of Lajja, Anjali Bhagwat and former World Champion Tejaswini Muley finished sixth in the rifle 3 positions event while in the individual category, Lajja Goswami came seventh. China, South Korea and Kazakhstan won gold, silver and bronze, respectively in the team event.

Later in the day, Sejwal gave India its maiden medal from the aquatics pool at the Incheon Games after he won the bronze in the men's 50 metre breaststroke at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center. Sejwal clocked 28.26 seconds. The gold went to Kazakh swimmer Dmitriy Balandin (27.78 secs) with a Games Record, while Japan's Yasuhiro Koseki (27.89 secs) took the silver. Balandin broke the record of 27.80 secs set by Zhi Xie of China in the 2010 Guangzhou Games.

Meanwhile, the men and the women's squash team put on a spirited show and are now eyeing maiden gold medals from the sport in the Asian Games.

After the women carved out a 2-0 win over hosts South Korea, the Indian men showed their verve to down Kuwait with a similar 2-0 margin in the semi-finals. Both the teams will be facing Malaysia in Saturday's final.

After the bronze that each team had won at the Guangzhou Asian Games four years ago, the Indians underlined their progress with fine performances.

Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal were in great touch, winning their respective singles matches in the women's semi-finals while Mahesh Mangaonkar and Saurav Ghosal notched fine victories as the Indian teams made it to the gold medal round.

With a silver and bronze already won in the individual phase by Ghosal and Dipika, respectively, India have already scripted a new chapter in the history of Asian Games squash.

In the women's semi-final, it was Joshna who started against Park Eunok who she beat in just 34 minutes to put India one up against South Korea. Dipika started well, but suffered a mid-match lull to drop a game before she came surging back to beat Song Sunmi. The finish was fluent as the Indian camp cheered the duo for the wonderful job done.

World No.21 Joshna thrashed Eunok Park 3-0 (11-6, 13-11, 11-8) in 34 minutes while World No.12 Dipika registered a 3-1 (11-4, 11-5, 8-11, 11-5) victory over Sunmi Song in 37 minutes.

Significantly, the man who gave the inspired start was Mangaonkar, who hardly put a foot wrong in his straight game win over Ammar Altamimi.

Mangaonkar thrashed Ammar 3-0 (11-3, 11-4, 12-10) in just 37 minutes. World No.16 Ghosal was made to work hard by Almezayen Abdullah before prevailing 3-2 (11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-3) in the second rubber which lasted one hour and two minutes.

Ghosal who was still smarting over the defeat at the hands of Abdullah Almezayen a couple of days ago in the singles final, could not miss this occasion to put the record straight. Ghosal was the hot favourite to win the singles gold but settled for silver as the Kuwaiti registered a surprise victory.

Once again the squash court provided a classic contest with both players giving nothing away. Four games were shared before Ghosal changed gears, rode an early lead, increased it to 6-1 and then never looked back.

Medals tally

China stretched their domination at the medals table of the 17th Asian Games after Friday's competition, bagging a total of 179 medals, including 91 golds. South Korea remain a distant second with 104 medals, including 31 golds, followed by Japan at the third place with 107 medals, including 30 gold medals. India were at the 16th spot with 17 medals (one gold).

The medals are tabulated under gold, silver, bronze and total number of medals:

1. China 91 gold, 49 silver, 39 bronze, total: 179
2. South Korea 31 gold, 37 silver, 36 bronze, total: 104
3. Japan 30 gold, 42 silver, 35 bronze, total: 107
16. India 1 gold, 2 silver, 14 bronze, total: 17

Source:-http://www.firstpost.com