The headline variety of day 5 is 33 – that is what India’s medal tally on the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games stands at proper now. But ESPN India picks out seven distinctive numbers that really helped outline the day that India had on Friday, September 29.

1-2

In the ladies’s 10m air pistol, Palak Gulia and Esha Singh gained gold and silver respectively: The youngsters made it India’s first 1-2 finish on the Hangzhou Games. Earlier, within the ladies’s 50m 3 rifle positions, Sift Kaur Samra and Ashi Chouksey completed 1-3.

7.6

There has not often ever been a collection 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 last, and by a margin. Then got here the 7.6. That dropped him to fifth, and regardless 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.

1769

Earlier, Kusale, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Akhil Sheoran mixed for a rip-roaring 1769 within the qualification that took them to gold. They beat 6-time champions China by 6 factors, and the world file by a whopping 8 factors.

127

Nikhat Zareen got here, Nikhat Zareen punched the residing daylights out of Jordan’s Hanan Nassar, Nikhat Zareen booked a flight to Paris. Her 127-second win within the quarter meant a semifinal (that comes with no less than a bronze) and an Olympic quota.

1082

A day after the Tokyo Olympics, Nikhat put up an image taking a look at a digital board counting down the time to the 2024 Olympics: 1082 days it mentioned. Now, she’s booked her place on the Paris Olympics with virtually a 12 months to spare.

August 8, 2021: Nikhat Zareen posted this image

Today: She wins the Olympic quota for Paris 2024

Dream on pic.twitter.com/78EKcdy4WE

– ESPN India (@ESPNIndia) September 29, 2023

72

Kiran Baliyan won bronze in the women’s shot put with a throw of 17.36m: the second-best throw of her life. It was India’s first shot put medal on the Asian Games in 72 years. The final one who gained it? Barbara Webster, with bronze in 1951.

Meanwhile, China has achieved the 1-2 ever since ladies’s hammer throw was added to the Asiad again in 2002; and so they did it once more, Zheng Wang with the gold (71.53m) and Jie Zhao with silver (69.44m).

4

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Esha Singh now have 4 medals every, essentially the most profitable athletes for India.