October 7 2023 will endlessly stay a red-letter day within the historical past of Indian sports activities because it gave the nation its sweetest century. India, on Saturday, which is the penultimate day of the nineteenth Asian Games – India’s participation, nevertheless, ends in the present day itself – received its one hundredth medal on the Games for the primary time ever. It was assured that may cross the elusive three-figure mark within the medal tally after the medals received in wrestling, archery (recurve), hockey, sepaktakraw and bridge and medals confirmed by the boys’s cricket and each kabaddi groups however official stamp got here on Saturday.

Starting the day at 95, India received their assured 5 medals – 4 in archery and one in kabaddi – to formally attain their century. Needless to say, that is additionally India’s best-ever medal haul on the Asian Games. They beat their earlier finest on the final version in Jakarta by an enormous margin. India had received 70 medals in 2018.

India have thus far received 25 gold medals, 35 silver medals and 40 bronze medals.

This can be solely the second time India have received greater than 100 medals in any of the three main Games – The Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games. They had received 101 medals within the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. But India are set to breach that mark comfortably as three extra medals are assured to return because the day progresses. And if the wrestlers add to the tally then India can properly go previous 105 medals by the top of the day.

That’s a mammoth bounce from twenty years in the past when India returned with 36 medals from the 2002 Busan Asian Games. In 2006 Doha, India’s tally was 53 and 4 years later in Guangzhou it was 65. There was a slight drop on the 2014 Incheon Asiad, which fetched simply 57 medals earlier than India had been again on observe at Jakarta and Palembang with 70 medals 5 years in the past, their best-ever tally then.

The day began with Aditi Swami Gopichand getting bronze in ladies’s compound archery by beating Indonesia’s Ratih Zilizati Fadhly. Jyothi Surekha Vennam then received India one other gold in the identical occasion. She beat her formidable South Korean opponent So Chaewon 149-145.

A couple of minutes later, it was an all-Indian ultimate within the males’s compound archery with the skilled Abhishek Verma going up towards younger Ojas Pravin Deotale. In a battle between the grasp and apprentice, it was the 21-year-old reigning world champion Deotale who emerged winner by two factors. But what this meant was India’s medal tally reached 99 with one other gold and silver in archery.

The one hundredth mark was reached after the ladies’s kabaddi workforce beat Chinese Taipei in a nail-biting ultimate within the final time to clinch gold.

Athletics (best-ever haul of 29 medals) and taking pictures (22) have been the largest contributors to India’s sweetest century. This dominating efficiency augurs properly with the Paris Olympics set to happen subsequent yr.

Here are all of the medal winners for India at Asian Games 2023

GOLD

Women’s Kabaddi Team

Ojas Pravin Deotale – Men’s Compound Archery (Individual)

Jyothi Surekha Vennam – Women’s Compound Archery (Individual)

Men’s Hockey Team

Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Praveen Deotale – Compound Archery (Mixed Team)

Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Gopichand Swami, Parneet Kaur – Compound Archery (Women’s Team)

Ojas Pravin Deotale, Prathamesh Jawkar, Abhishek Verma Compound Archery (Men’s Team)

Muhammad Anas Yahiya, Amoj Jacob, Muhammad Ajmal and Rajesh Ramesh – Men’s 4x400m Relay – Athletics

Neeraj Chopra – Men’s Javelin Throw

Avinash Sable – Men’s 3000m Steeplechase

Tajinderpal Singh Toor – Men’s Shotput

Parul Chaudhary – Women’s 5000m

Annu Rani – Women’s Javelin Throw

India Women’s Cricket Team

Equestrian – Dressage Team

Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema, Shiva Narwal – Men’s 10m Air Pistol (Team)

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil, Divyansh Singh Panwar – Men’s 10m Air Rifle (Team)

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran – Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Position (Team)

Palak Gulia – Women’s 10m Air Pistol

Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, Rhythm Sangwan – Women’s 25m Air Pistol (Team)

Sift Kaur Samra – Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Position

Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Sandhu, Prithviraj Tondaiman – Men’s Trap (Team)

Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu – Men’s Squash (Team)

Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Sandhu – Squash (Mixed Doubles)

Rohan Bopanna, Rutuja Bhosale – Tennis (Mixed Doubles)

SILVER

Atanu Das, Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tushar Shelke – Men’s Archery Recurve (Team)

Kishore Kumar Jena – Men’s Javelin Throw

Jyothi Yarraji – Women’s 100m Hurdles

Sreeshankar Murali – Men’s Long Jump

Avinash Sable – Men’s 5000m

Tejaswin Shankar – Men’s Decathlon

Vithya Ramraj, Aishwarya Mishra, Prachi, Subha Venkatesh – Women’s 4x400m Relay

Muhammed Ajmal, Rajesh Ramesh, Vithya Ramraj, Subha Venkatesan – Mixed 4x400m Relay

Ancy Sojan – Women’s Long Jump

Karthik Kumar – Men’s 10000m

Harmilan Bains – Women’s 15000m

Parul Chaudhary – Women’s 3000m Steeplechase

Harmilan Bains – Women’s 800m

Ajay Kumar Saroj – Men’s 1500m

Muhammad Afsal – Men’s 800m

India Men’s Badminton Team

Aditi Ashok – Women’s Golf (Individual)

Lovlina Borgohain – Boxing Women’s 75kg

Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh – Rowing Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls

India Men’s Eight Team Rowing

Neha Thakur – Sailing Girl’s Dinghy

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar – Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Individual)

Esha Singh, Palak Gulia and Divya TS – Women’s 10m Air Pistol (Team)

Ramita Jindal, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey – Women’s 10m Air Rifle (Team)

Esha Singh – Women’s 10m Air Pistol (Individual)

Esha Singh – Women’s 25m Pistol (Individual)

Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik – Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Team)

Anant Jeet Singh Naruka – Men’s Skeet (Individual)

Divya TS and Sarabjot Singh – 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team

Rajeshwari Kumari, Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak – Women’s Trap Team

Saurav Ghosal – Squash Men’s Singles

Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni – Tennis Men’s Doubles

Naorem Roshibina Devi – Wushu Women’s Sanda 60kg

Indian Men’s Bridge Team