It was one other massively profitable day on the Asian Games with India completing half-century within the medals tally. The present quantity reads 53. Here, ESPN India picks out 10 distinctive numbers that really helped outline the day that India had on Sunday, October 1.

15

India won 15 medals on Sunday, essentially the most the nation has ever received on a single day. What made it even higher for the Indian sports activities fan was the number of disciplines from which they got here: athletics, badminton, taking pictures and boxing.

9/8

The athletics bit was particularly beautiful. In eight finals, Indians received 9 medals, a shocking double coming within the males’s 1500m. The medals came from all corners: anticipated giants, thrilling debutants, and people many (wrongly) thought of previous their prime.

3 — to — 2

Jyothi Yarraji completed third in her race. She walked as much as the rostrum and was awarded silver. What occurred in between that, what occurred within the race, what occurred earlier than the race is nothing in need of chaos. And we have tried to explain that here.

22

Kynan Darius Chenai’s bronze within the males’s entice was India’s 22nd in shooting. That makes Hangzhou 2023 (or 2022, formally) the very best displaying for Indian taking pictures within the historical past of the Asiad, beating the tally of 14 from Doha 2006.

2

India had been main 2-0. Lakshya Sen had received. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty received. Kidambi Srikanth had two sport factors to win sport 1 of the third match of this males’s badminton group remaining…. And then Li Shi Feng mounted a comeback and a half. He received the sport, he received the match, and India misplaced floor quickly.

Still, the eventual silver was a historic one: it is the primary time that India have received a medal within the males’s badminton group occasion.

4.25

Avinash Sable ran, everybody else chased. In what was one of the dominant shows on an Asiad observe by an Indian, Sable completely dominated the boys’s 3000m steeplechase remaining to win by 4.25 seconds. And he did that whereas jogging and celebrating a lot earlier than the end line. Incredible.

3-2

For the primary time in a very long time, Nikhat Zareen will not put on gold at a significant worldwide match. Or any match she’s entered her identify in. And that is due to a sensational bout by Thailand’s Chuthamat Raksat within the ladies’s 50kg semis. Nikhat returns with a bronze, nevertheless it’s a mark of who she is that this shall be thought of a significant disappointment.

20.36

Tajinderpal Singh Toor was struggling. Two fouls in his first two makes an attempt, and the defending champion was in actual hazard of not qualifying for the ultimate eight… after which he threw a 19.51m to squeeze into the ultimate. He then threw a 20.06 and that was nonetheless adequate for silver. As somebody who’d set the Asian file (once more) just some months again, this could have been a disappointment. He then fouled once more, earlier than in his final throw, stepping up and throwing a massive 20.36. Gold, finished and dusted.

Incredible.

0.03

The distance between gold and silver for Sreeshankar Murali. He jumped 8.19m (solely ratified after a lot dialogue between him and the judges checking for a foul mark) however was 0.03m behind defending champion (and former world champion) Wang Jianan who hit 8.22m. Agonising.

40

Gold in 2014. Bronze in 2018. Seema Punia has been doing this gig for a protracted whereas now, and she or he wasn’t going to cease medalling on the Asiad simply because she’d turned 40 a few months in the past. So she went on the market, threw a 58.62m in her fourth throw and that was bronze but once more.