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Asian Games 2018 Day 14: Highlights
India, at the 8th rank, have bagged a total of 69 medals so far, which include 15 Gold, 24 Silver and 30 Bronze medals.
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The penultimate day of sporting events at the 18th edition of the Asian Games 2018 kicks-off in Indonesia on Saturday. India, at the 8th rank, have bagged a total of 68 medals so far, which include 15 Gold, 24 Silver and 29 Bronze medals.
Indian Sailors Varsha Gautham, Sweta Shervegar won a silver medal in Women’s 49er FX Women. The duo notched up 44 points after Race 15 to finish second the final. In Men’s 49er, Varun Thakkar and Ganapathy Chengappa (53 points) clinched bronze while Harshita Tomar scored 74 points in the Open Laser 4.7 final to add another bronze medal for India. It was India’s best-ever result in the Sailing discipline since 1982. India had won a gold in fireball, silver in enterprise and a bronze in wind-glide.
The Women’s Hockey team had to settle with a silver medal after a heartbreak 1-2 loss to Japan in the final. Indian Men’s Hockey side, who lost 6-7 to Malaysia in sudden death, will take on Pakistan in the bronze medal play-off match.
Defending champions, India Men’s Squash side (Saurav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Singh, Ramit Tandon, Mahesh Mangaonkar) lost 0-2 to Hong Kong in the semifinals but bagged the bronze medal by virtue of reaching the semis.
The Women’s Squash team, who struck gold in 2014 Games, stormed into the final after a 2-0 win over Malaysia. The side comprising of Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Sunayna Kuruvilla, Tanvi Khanna ensured at least a silver medal finish for India.
Boxer Amit secured another 1/2 podium finish for India after beating Philippines' Carlo Paalam 3-2 in the 49 kg Men’s Light fly semifinal. Amit will take on Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov in the gold medal bout. India added its second medal in Boxing after Vikas Krishan won Bronze in Men’s Middle 75 kg event.
India equalled their best-ever medal haul of 65 medals on Day 13 of the 2018 Games. India had bagged 65 medals (14 Gold, 17 Silver, 34 Bronze) in the 2010 Guangzhou Games’ held in China.
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