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Historic Gold In Badminton Asia Team Championship

The Indian women’s team won a historic gold medal at the Badminton Asia Team Championships 2024 after beating Thailand 3-2 in the final in Shah Alam, Malaysia on February 18.

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This was India’s maiden title in the history of the continental competition. The men’s Indian badminton team had previously won two medals in 2016 and 2020, but both were bronze. The winning team comprised PV Sindhu, Gayatri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly, and teenager Anmol Kharb.

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Asian Games 2023

The 19th Asian Games 2023 were held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8. India reached an unprecedented milestone of 107 medals (28 gold, 38 silver, and 41 bronze) at the Asian Games 2023. India finished 4th in the overall medal’s tally.

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This is the first time in history, India has achieved this remarkable feat. Team India’s previous best was set at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. China topped the list with 383 medals.

Take a look at the full list of India’s medallists:

Archery

  1. Compound Men’s Individual: Gold – Ojas Deotale, Silver – Abhishek Verma
  2. Compound Women’s Individual: Gold – Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Bronze – Aditi Swami
  3. Compound Men’s Team: Gold
  4. Compound Women’s Team: Gold
  5. Compound Mixed Team: Gold
  6. Recurve Men’s Team: Silver
  7. Recurve Women’s Team: Bronze

Athletics

  1. Men’s 3000m Steeplechase: Gold – Avinash Sable
  2. Men’s 4 x 400m Relay: Gold
  3. Men’s Javelin Throw: Gold – Neeraj Chopra
  4. Men’s Shot Put: Gold – Tajinderpal Singh Toor
  5. Women’s 5000m: Gold – Parul Chaudhary
  6. Women’s Javelin Throw: Gold – Annu Rani
  7. Men’s 10000m: Silver – Kartik Kumar
  8. Men’s 1500m: Silver – Ajay Kumar
  9. Men’s 5000m: Silver – Avinash Sable
  10. Men’s 800m: Silver – Mohammed Afsal
  11. Men’s Decathlon: Silver – Tejaswin Shankar
  12. Men’s Javelin Throw: Silver – Kishore Jena
  13. Men’s Long Jump: Silver – Sreeshankar
  14. Women’s 100m Hurdles: Silver – Jyothi Yarraji
  15. Women’s 1500m: Silver – Harmilan Bains
  16. Women’s 3000m Steeplechase: Silver – Parul Chaudhary
  17. Women’s 4x400m relay: Silver
  18. Women’s 800m: Silver – Harmilan Bains
  19. Women’s Long Jump: Silver – Ancy Sojan
  20. 4x400m Mixed relay: Silver
  21. Men’s 10000m: Bronze – Gulveer Singh
  22. Men’s 1500m: Bronze – Jinson Johnson
  23. Men’s Triple Jump: Bronze – Praveen Chithravel
  24. Women’s 3000m Steeplechase: Bronze – Priti Lamba
  25. Women’s 400m Hurdles: Bronze – Vithya Ramraj
  26. Women’s Discus Throw: Bronze – Seema Punia
  27. Women’s Heptathlon: Bronze – Nandini Agasara
  28. Women’s Shot Put: Bronze – Kiran Baliyan
  29. 35km Race Walk Mixed Team: Bronze

Badminton

  1. Men’s Doubles: Gold – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
  2. Men’s team: Silver
  3. Men’s Singles: Bronze – Prannoy

Boxing

  1. Women’s 75kg: Bronze – Lovlina
  2. Men’s +92kg: Bronze – Narender
  3. Women’s 45-50kg: Bronze – Nikhat Zareen
  4. Women’s 50-54kg: Bronze – Preeti
  5. Women’s 54-57kg: Bronze – Parveen

Bridge

  1. Men’s Team: Silver

Canoe Sprint

  1. Men’s Canoe Double 1000m: Bronze

Chess

  1. Men’s Team: Silver
  2. Women’s Team: Silver

Cricket

  1. Men’s Team: Gold
  2. Women’s Team: Gold

Equestrian

  1. Dressage Team: Gold
  2. Dressage: Bronze – Anush Agarwalla

Golf

  1. Women’s individual: Silver – Aditi Ashok

Hockey

  1. Men’s Team: Gold
  2. Women’s Team: Bronze

Kabaddi

  1. Men’s Team: Gold
  2. Women’s Team: Gold

Roller Skating

  1. Women’s Speed Skating 3000m Relay Race: Bronze
  2. Men’s Speed Skating 3000m Relay Race: Bronze

Rowing

  1. Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls: Silver
  2. Men’s Eight: Silver
  3. Men’s Four: Bronze
  4. Men’s Pair: Bronze
  5. Men’s Quadruple Sculls: Bronze

Sailing

  1. Girl’s Dinghy ILCA 4: Silver – Neha Thakur
  2. Men’s Dinghy ILCA 7: Bronze – Vishnu Saravanan
  3. Men’s Windsurfer RS – X: Bronze – Eabad Ali

Sepaktakraw

  1. Women’s Regu: Bronze

Shooting

  1. 10m Air Pistol Team Men: Gold
  2. 10m Air Rifle Team Men: Gold
  3. 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team Men: Gold
  4. Trap Team Men: Gold
  5. 10m Air Pistol Women: Gold – Palak
  6. 25m Pistol Team Women: Gold
  7. 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Gold – Sift Kaur Samra
  8. 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men: Silver – Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
  9. Skeet Men: Silver – Anant Jeet Singh
  10. 10m Air Pistol Team Women: Silver
  11. 10m Air Pistol Women: Silver – Esha Singh
  12. 10m Air Rifle Team Women: Silver
  13. 25m Pistol Women: Silver – Esha Singh
  14. 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team Women: Silver
  15. Trap Team Women: Silver
  16. 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team: Silver
  17. 10m Air Rifle Men: Bronze – Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
  18. 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team Men: Bronze
  19. Skeet Men’s Team: Bronze
  20. Trap Men: Bronze – Chenai KD
  21. 10m Air Rifle Women: Bronze – Ramita
  22. 50m Rifle 3 Positions: Bronze – Ashi Chouskey

Squash

  1. Men’s Team: Gold
  2. Mixed Doubles: Gold
  3. Men’s Singles: Silver – Saurav Ghosal
  4. Women’s Team: Bronze
  5. Mixed Doubles: Bronze

Table Tennis

  1. Women’s Doubles: Bronze

Tennis

  1. Mixed Doubles: Gold
  2. Men’s Doubles: Silver

Wrestling

  1. Men’s Freestyle 86kg: Silver – Deepak Punia
  2. Men’s Freestyle 57kg: Bronze – Aman
  3. Men’s Greco-Roman 87kg: Bronze – Sunil Kumar
  4. Women’s Freestyle 53kg: Bronze – Antim Panghal
  5. Women’s Freestyle 62kg: Bronze – Sonam
  6. Women’s Freestyle 76kg: Bronze – Kiran

Wushu

  1. Women’s 60kg: Silver – Roshibina Devi

Fun Fact

The mascot of the Asian Games 2023 is a group of robots titled ‘Memories of Jiangnan’.

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