India had a terrific 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China and the variety of medals are backed up by sporting achievements each good and nice.

From the broader figures to the small, offbeat ones which will have skipped our consideration, ESPN India picks out the numbers that outlined India’s unimaginable marketing campaign:

107

The variety of medals India gained on the Hangzhou Asian Games. Unprecedented. Record-shattering, historical past making. India are actually solely the fourth nation to cross the 100-medal mark at an Asiad. This is a 52% enhance from India’s earlier greatest haul (70, set final time at Jakarta 2018).

Also, as spectacular as that quantity is, it tells you solely half the story.

4

India’s 4th place end is the perfect the nation has been positioned since a third-place end in Jakarta 1962 and a second-place one in New Delhi 1951.

22

India gained medals in 22 disciplines – that is probably the most disciplines India have medalled in at a single Asiad ever. The greatest earlier than that was 18… in 2018.

100%

5 Compound archery finals, 5 gold medals: what the Indian archers did at Hangzhou was simply astounding. Just to indicate you the way dominant they have been, Ojas Deotale hit 44 10s out of a doable 45 within the quarters, semis and closing of the boys’s particular person occasion. Ridiculous.

Ojas and Jyothi Surekha Vennam have been additionally India’s most profitable athletes with three golds every.

65

Minutes that the kabaddi males’s closing was ‘suspended’ for as India’s players protested a referee’s interpretation of a rule after which the Iranian gamers did likewise. A reminder: a kabaddi match is definitely simply 40 minutes lengthy.

1

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty gained India’s first ever badminton gold on the Asian Games. In the method, additionally they grew to become the primary Indian males’s pair to be ranked world no.1.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty.

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7.6

There has not often ever been a sequence of 5 pictures like this: 10.2, 10.3, 7.6, 10.5, 10.1.

At the time of the primary two pictures, Swapnil Suresh Kusale was main the boys’s 50m rifle 3 positions closing, and by a margin. Then got here the 7.6. That dropped him to fifth, and despite the fact that the ten.5 helped to achieve one place, the ten.1 was ok solely to seal fourth.

From gold to no medal, and all of it got here from a wild outlier of a shot.

– 115 and a couple of

India’s rugby ladies’s crew have been put in a tricky, powerful group and it confirmed. Throughout 4 matches at present and yesterday, they conceded 122, however they did rating a attempt (and make a conversion). The actual quantity that outlined their match was two. Hupi Majhi whizzed previous the Japanese defence and it regarded virtually sure she’d rating. Almost. Two yards from the attempt line she was tackled, introduced down, and a turnover was compelled virtually instantly. Just 2 yards.

3 for six in 4

In cricket, how do you defend a complete of 116 in 20 overs? It in all probability helps in case your medium pacer comes and removes the opposition’s whole prime order for the price of a boundary and a half.

That’s precisely what Titas Ranadeep Sadhu did as she cleaned up Sri Lanka with figures of three/6 in 4 overs as India’s ladies’s crew beat Sri Lanka to win Asian Games gold on debut.

4: 15-15, 16-16, 17-17, 18-18

In the 10m blended crew taking pictures bronze medal match, India’s Ramita Jindal and Divyansh Panwar took a large 8-0 lead earlier than South Korea’s Eunseo Lee and Hajun Park clutch-shot their manner again to 9-9. But the drama was simply beginning. India went 13-9 up, then 15-11 earlier than Lee and Park upped their recreation as soon as once more to make it 15-15.

Then it grew to become a straight shootout, whoever gained the following set would take bronze: and that introduced with it a rare sequence of pictures the place each groups hit the very same scores: 21.0 to make it 16-16, 21.0 once more to make it 17-17 and 20.9 to make it 18-18! Four sequence, 4 tied scores…unimaginable!

In the top, Lee and Park would clinch it 20-18 with a rating of 21.5 vs 21.2.

77

An Indian athlete on the Asian Games who pre-dates impartial India. Whoddathunk? Bharati Dey, 77, was born in March 1946 and led India’s ladies’s bridge crew at Hangzhou. What’s even funkier? Her youngest teammate, Vidhya Patel, is 22. From the British Empire to the brand new millennium, this crew has seen all of it.

469.6

India’s first particular person gold of the Hangzhou Games was gained in some fashion; Sift Kaur Samra obliterating the world document (by 2.6 factors) en path to profitable by a margin of seven.6 (in a sport the place the very best factors doable per shot is 10.9). MBBS’ loss is world shooting’s gain.

8.9

In the penultimate spherical of taking pictures within the closing of the 50m 3 Positions rifle, Ashi Chouksey wanted only a 9.4 to enter the ultimate spherical and make it a outstanding 1-2 to India. Coming off a sequence of 10.5 and 10.2, silver was within the bag… until she shot an 8.9. That was that, and silver modified immediately to bronze.

Oh, what may have been.

10 and 10

Imagine needing perfection, twice — on the final probability — to win gold. Imagine nailing perfection. Men’s pistol final two pictures: After Arjun Singh Cheema had shot a 9 along with his closing shot, India wanted to make no errors to beat China to gold, and that is what Sarabjot Singh and Shiva Narwal did, hitting a ten every on their final shot. That took India’s complete to 533, simply 1 level forward of China’s complete.

-48.24

One of these sobering numbers that present you the way far India are from the perfect in sure occasions. India smashed their nationwide document within the finals of the 4x200m ladies’s freestyle relay by swimming it in 8:37.58 however what actually put this in context was how distant they have been from eventual gold medalists, China… who completed 48.24 seconds forward of them.

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– ESPN India (@ESPNIndia) October 7, 2023

(177 + 112) – (2+4) = 283

Ayhika Mukherjee is world no. 177, Sutirtha 112. Chen Meng is world no.2, Wang Yidi world no. 4. But the Indians performed ‘bindaas’ and pulled off a win that also has the potential to ship the TT world right into a spin. They ended with a bronze, however Mukherjee magic will reside on in Indian sporting fable.

425

Avinash Sable ran, everybody else chased. In what was one of the dominant shows on an Asiad monitor by an Indian, Sable utterly dominated the boys’s 3000m steeplechase closing to win by 4.25 seconds. And he did that whereas jogging and celebrating much before the finish line. Incredible.

0, 0… 2

In his males’s particular person recurve archery QF, Dhiraj Bommadevara had a nightmarish outing. In a sport the place archers are dissatisfied to not rating 9 or 10 on the goal, Dhiraj managed to overlook the whole thing of the goal utterly – TWICE. Two zeros. He would make up for it with some clutch taking pictures within the males’s crew occasion, the place India won a maiden silver.

1 and 0.59

Parul Chaudhary grew to become the first-ever feminine athlete on the Asian Games to medal within the women’s 3000m steeplechase (silver) and 5000m race (gold). She’s additionally the primary Indian ladies to win a 5000m gold.

Yet, these feats have been 0.59 seconds away from not taking place – Parul producing a late kick on the within to sneak previous chief Ririka Hironaka of Japan within the final 30 metres. Ririka’s surprised face, completely captured by the photographers on the Asian Games is maybe the perfect descriptor of how thrilling the top to that race was.

68

The Indian males’s hockey crew scored 68 objectives in complete throughout their gold-winning marketing campaign on the Hangzhou Asian Games. They had scored 80 objectives in 2018, however completed with the bronze. Perhaps Craig Fulton has some extent along with his ‘defend to attack‘ philosophy.