{"id":302034,"date":"2018-08-31T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302034"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:27:55","slug":"asian-games-2018-india-wins-silver-in-womens-hockey-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-india-wins-silver-in-womens-hockey-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: India wins Silver in Women&#8217;s hockey Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302035 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hockey-inda-women-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hockey-inda-women-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hockey-inda-women-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hockey-inda-women-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hockey-inda-women-696x459.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hockey-inda-women-637x420.jpg 637w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hockey-inda-women.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/>Indian women\u2019s hockey team won the silver medal in the finals of the Women\u2019s hockey event at Asian Games in Jakarta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India lost the finals to Japan by 1-2 in a close fought match. Minami Shimizu of Japan was the first to goal in the 11th minute as Neha Goyal provided India with a much-needed equalizer in the 25th minute of the match. Meanwhile, Japan took the lead again in the 44th minute as Motomi Kawamura scored from a penalty corner. Indian eves pushed a lot and tried to look for the equalizer but the Japanese team had moved most of its player into its half and created a strong defense which was difficult to penetrate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the end of full time, Japan won the match by 2-1 to claim the gold medal while the Indian team had to settle for the silver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President of India, Ram Nath Kovind applauded the team and said, \u201cCongratulations to the Indian Women&#8217;s Hockey Team for winning the Silver at the @AsianGames2018. India is delighted by your stellar performance. Well played. We are all very proud of you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congratulating team India for a great performance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, \u201cAbsolutely thrilled by the success of the women\u2019s Hockey Team! Their spectacular performance is a matter of immense happiness for the 125 crore people of India. Congratulations on winning the Silver!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India\u2019s total medal tally at the Asian games 2018 now stands at 65 with thirteen gold, twenty-three silver, and twenty-nine bronze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian women\u2019s hockey team won the silver medal in the finals of the Women\u2019s hockey event at Asian Games in Jakarta. India lost the finals to Japan by 1-2 in a close fought match. Minami Shimizu of Japan was the first to goal in the 11th minute as Neha Goyal provided India with a much-needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4297,4397,4539,4287,2507,4452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302037,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302034\/revisions\/302037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}