With no Indian participation on the last day of competitions tomorrow, the country's overall standing can change depending on others' performance. Today, staging a fantastic second-half recovery, Indian men surged to gold by defeating Iran in a thrilling final at the Songdo University Gymnasium.
India thus completed a golden double on the kabaddi mat for the second successive edition after the women defeated the same nation in their final held earlier in the day.
The country thus boosted its overall gold tally to 11 on the final day of competitions here. But it was touch and go for the Indian men, who have won the gold medal with ease on the six previous occasions since kabaddi was introduced in the Games at Beijing. They played catch-up with Iran for most part of the game before drawing level with the last seven minutes of the minute match left.
The winners were trailing by a big margin of at half time and a huge upset was on the cards before the defending champions pulled it around in the second half with some aggressive raiding and smart catching. Captain Rakesh Kumar played with a bandaged head after getting injured by a rival defender's knee during his raid in the second half.
Rakesh said at half time, the strategy chalked out was to pack off Iran quickly for a 'lona' -- with only four players of the rivals left as compared to their own five -- at that stage and come back into the game. India started on the wrong foot against the super-fit Iranians who looked like men possessed as they raided with gusto and defended with zeal to jump to a lead before the Indians, who even conceded a 'lona' after being all out , knew what happened.
Experienced raider Jasvir Singh appeared to be a bit overconfident and paid the penalty for that as he was packed off when raiding thrice in the initial stages. It was left to India's most experienced player Anup Kumar to pull in three points with a good raid and narrow the lead. With five minutes left for the end of the opening half, India trailed which became before the first half ended.
The crucial turnaround happened soon after the start of the second half when India secured a 'lona' and then caught up with their rivals at all. They, however, slipped down to before staging another recovery to catch up at all when seven minutes were left. Anup raided to secure a valuable point to help India lead , the first time they had done in the entire match. Fantasy Tips. Story Progress Back to home. Naorem Roshibina Devi won the bronze medal in women's wushu Sanda 60kg category at the Asian Games Santosh Kumar also won the bronze in men's wushu Sanda 56kg category.
Narender Grewal won the bronze in men's Wushu Sanda 65kg category. Earlier in the day, Rahi Sarnobat posted India's first gold on the medal tally on Day 4 of the Asian Games , when she won the women's Metre Pistol event after a tense double-shootoff. Rahi Sarnobat was tied at 34 with her rival from Thailand at the end of the main round and the two were then tied after the first shoot-off round of five shots each.
Tokyo Olympics: PV Sindhu won the women's singles bronze, the Indian men's hockey team made the semifinals even as boxer Satish Kumar lost in the quarterfinal as Team India added to its medal tally on Sunday. Kiren Rijiju was delighted with their displays and said they were well-prepared for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Indian paddlers made most of the home advantage and grabbed all the gold medals -- seven to be precise -- in the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.
India bagged the gold medal in Men's Pair Bridge event after scoring A golden dream unfulfilled for over 30 years remained just that in women's hockey but India equalled its best ever medal haul as sailors joined the assorted contributors to the country's tally at the 18th Asian Games on Friday.
The Indian contingent have accounted for a total of 29 medals so far at the Asian Games
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