{"id":302047,"date":"2018-09-01T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T09:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302047"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:49:33","slug":"asian-games-2018-two-more-gold-medals-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-two-more-gold-medals-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian games 2018: Two more gold medals for India"},"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-302048 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2-more-gold-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/2-more-gold-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/2-more-gold-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/2-more-gold-696x383.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/2-more-gold-762x420.jpg 762w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/2-more-gold.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/>India added two more gold medals in its tally\u00a0on the 14th\u00a0Day of the Asian Games in Jakarta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pranab Bardhan and Shibhnath Sarkar\u00a0earned the country another gold on Saturday, in the\u00a0men\u2019s bridge pair event, taking Indian gold medal tally to 15. India has 67 medals, including 15 golds,\u00a023 silver and 29 bronze medals in Asian Games 2018.\u00a0This is the country\u2019s best-ever performance at the Asiad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, India had won two bronze medals in the debut sport of bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sports Minister of India Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore tweeted, \u201cINDIA HITS A GOLD AGAIN! India goes for GOLD again! Kudos to our Bridge Men&#8217;s pair of Pranab Bardhan &amp; Shibnath Dey Sarkar for bagging India&#8217;s 15th GOLD at the\u00a0#AsianGames2018 Good Job Guys! The country salutes your achievement.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the Men\u2019s Boxing (49kg) event on Saturday, Amit Panghal became the eighth Indian boxer ever to claim a gold medal at the Asian Games with a stunning tactical win over reigning Olympic and Asian champion Hasanboy Dusmatov in the title clash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit, the only Indian to make into the finals of Boxing in Asian games 2018, prevailed 3-2 against Dusmatov, who had beaten him in a split verdict in last year&#8217;s world championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congratulating Amit for his victory, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore tweeted, &#8220;GOLD NUMBER 14! BRILLIANT boxing by\u00a0#TOPSAthlete Amit Panghal to secure a GOLD in Men&#8217;s 49 kg Boxing by defeating 2016 Olympic Gold medalist! What a proud, proud moment this is for us!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Boxer Vijender Singh tweeted, \u201c#AmitPanghal what about!!! Beating reigning Olympic champion #HasanboyDusmatov in Men&#8217;s 49kg Final to win GOLD 14th Gold for India. Ek Number!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India added two more gold medals in its tally\u00a0on the 14th\u00a0Day of the Asian Games in Jakarta. Pranab Bardhan and Shibhnath Sarkar\u00a0earned the country another gold on Saturday, in the\u00a0men\u2019s bridge pair event, taking Indian gold medal tally to 15. India has 67 medals, including 15 golds,\u00a023 silver and 29 bronze medals in Asian Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":302048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4549,4297,4397,4547,4548,3490,4287,4550,4553,4551,4552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302047"}],"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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302049,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302047\/revisions\/302049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}