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A superb @ArpinderSingh18 becomes the first Indian to medal at the IAAF Continental Cup - takes the Men's Triple Jump bronze at #IAAFOstrava2018 with a best effort of 16.59m.
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#Athletics IAAF Continental Cup: Muhammad Anas ends 5th in the Men's 400m race with a timing of 45.72; Jinson Johnson clocks 3:41.72 to finish 6th in the Men's 1500m run.
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Top seed @sameerv2210 defeats the unseeded Malaysian Joo Ven Soong 21-15 21-18 to win the Men's Singles title at the Hyderabad Open.
Top seeds @satwiksairaj/@Shettychirag04 defeat the third seeds Akbar Bintang Cahyono/Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani of Indonesia 21-16 21-14 to win the Hyderabad Open Men's Doubles title.
#Athletics: PU Chitra finishes a respectable 4th in the Women's 1500m event at the 3rd IAAF Continental Cup with a timing of 4:18.45. #IAAFOstrava2018
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A superb Ankur Mittal wins the Men's Double Trap gold at the Changwon #ISSFWCH with a score of 140 (+4 in a shoot-off). Mittal is only the second Indian after Manavjit Singh Sandhu (in 2006) to win gold in a shotgun event at the World Championships.
Changwon #ISSFWCH - @realmanubhaker also narrowly misses out on the Women's 25m Pistol final after finishing 10th with 584-16X. The seventh and eighth qualifiers for the final recorded 584-22X and 584-21X respectively.
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Changwon #ISSFWCH - Anjum Moudgil narrowly misses out on the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event final - ends 9th with 1170-56X. The eighth and the last qualifier for the final, Nina Christen of Switzerland, recorded 1170-66X.
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ICYMI Abhishek Verma (583-28X in qualification; 118.0 in 12 shots in the final) ended 8th in the Men's 10m Air Pistol event earlier this week at the Changwon #ISSFWCH.
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#USOpen: The 15th seeds Rohan Bopanna/Edouard Roger-Vasselin go down to the 5th seeds Robert Farah/Juan Sebastián Cabal of Colombia 3-6 4-6 in the Men's Doubles quarter-finals.
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Om Prakash Mitharval is the new Men's 50m Pistol World Champion after winning the event at the Changwon #ISSFWCH with a score of 564/600.
The 15th seeds @rohanbopanna/@ERogerVasselin enter the Men's Doubles quarter-finals at the #USOpen with a 7-6(6) 4-6 6-3 win over the French duo of Jérémy Chardy/Fabrice Martin.
A superb Anjum Moudgil (628.7 in qualification & 248.4 in 24 shots in the final) wins the Women's 10m Air Rifle silver at the Changwon #ISSFWCH; compatriot @apurvichandela (627.5 & 207.0 in 20 shots) ends a very creditable 4th as India secure two #Tokyo2020 quotas in the event.
India's 2018 #AsianGames medals in Olympic Sports (vs. 2014 AG):
Archery: 0 (0)
Athletics: 19 (13)
Badminton: 2 (1)
Boxing: 2 (5)
Equestrian: 2 (0)
Hockey: 2 (2)
Rowing: 3 (3)
Sailing: 3 (1)
Shooting: 9 (4)
Swimming: 0 (1)
Table Tennis: 2 (0)
Tennis: 3 (5)
Wrestling: 3 (4)
India end the 2018 #AsianGames with a record haul of 69 medals (15🥇, 24🥈 & 30🥉), bettering the previous high of 65 medals in 2010 & 2014 tally of 57 medals (11🥇, 10🥈 & 36🥉). The 15🥇 this time also sees India equal its previous best gold tally achieved way back in 1951.
#Hockey: @TheHockeyIndia Men go past arch-rivals Pakistan 2-1 to end with bronze at the #AsianGames. @akashdeeps985 & @13harmanpreet scored for India.
#Squash: The Indian Women's team end with a well-deserved silver at the #AsianGames after going down to Hong Kong 0-2 in the final.
#Bridge: The duo of Pranab Bardhan/Shibhnath Sarkar give India its fifteenth gold at the #AsianGames by winning the Men's Pair event.
#Boxing: An excellent Amit Panghal beats the reigning Olympic Champion Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan 3-2 in the 49kg final to give India its fourteenth gold at the #AsianGames.