India, with a file haul of 107 medals on the Hangzhou Asian Games, has written a glittering chapter within the nation’s sporting historical past, whereas additionally giving a robust purpose to begin dreaming a couple of best-ever Olympic efficiency subsequent yr in Paris.

The 660-strong contingent bagged 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze on the continental showpiece, fetching 37 extra medals than on the 2018 Jakarta Games.

Indian athletes even surpassed their very own expectations in a number of the occasions corresponding to capturing and archery, giving the nation its greatest ever hauls in these disciplines.

Hosts China completed with a record-breaking 201 gold medals because the curtain comes down on two weeks of triumphs and tears on the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday.

The largest Asiad ever will wrap up later within the day with a closing ceremony on the 80,000-capacity Olympic stadium, with China handing over to Japan for 2026.

The Asian Games usually occur each 4 years however Nagoya-Aichi has a shorter run-up as a result of the Hangzhou occasion was postponed by a yr resulting from China’s now-abandoned zero-Covid measures.

Taiwan’s Gu Shiau-shuang received the ultimate gold when she triumphed within the ladies’s karate -50kg kumite class.

Subways had been closed and safety was tightened round Hangzhou’s Olympic stadium forward of the Asian Games closing ceremony on Sunday as China grabbed one of many final gold medals so as to add to a record-breaking haul on the multi-sport occasion.

After greater than two weeks of competitors, China’s second highest chief, Premier Li Qiang, will attend the night ceremony beginning 8 p.m. (1200 GMT) however the content material has in any other case been stored beneath wraps.

With athletes energised by heat assist from house followers, China topped the medals desk for an eleventh successive Games, taking an inventive swimming title on the ultimate day.

Hosts China completed with a record-breaking 201 gold medals because the curtain comes down on two weeks of triumphs and tears on the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday. The largest Asiad ever will wrap up later within the day with a closing ceremony on the 80,000-capacity Olympic stadium, with China handing over to Japan for 2026. The Asian Games usually occur each 4 years however Nagoya-Aichi has a shorter run-up as a result of the Hangzhou occasion was postponed by a yr resulting from China’s now-abandoned zero-Covid measures. Taiwan’s Gu Shiau-shuang received the ultimate gold when she triumphed within the ladies’s karate -50kg kumite class.

But it was the hosts who dominated the general medals desk, their 201 golds beating the 199 they collected at Guangzhou 2010. Their exploits throughout 40 sports activities and 54 venues strengthened China’s standing as Asia’s sporting superpower, topping the medals desk at each Asian Games since 1982. With about 12,000 athletes in complete, this was the largest Asian Games in historical past.

The Asian Games wrapped up on Sunday after two weeks of thrilling sporting highs and lows in Hangzhou.

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All my fault: South Korea’s red-faced rollerskater Jung Cheol-won had nowhere to cover after coasting into an early celebration, a “big mistake” that price gold.

Hurdles hoo-ha: China’s Wu Yanni went into the ladies’s 100m hurdles last as one of many favourites in entrance of a packed house stadium on the nation’s nationwide day.

Hammer blow: An athletics official suffered a damaged leg after being hit by a hammer hurled throughout competitors by Kuwait’s Ali Zankawi. Huang Qinghua was sitting on a chair outdoors the throwing circle when Zankawi aborted his try, together with his 7.26kg (16lb) hammer flying into the protecting netting and smashing into the official’s proper leg.

Japan is trying to its younger expertise to impress at subsequent yr’s Paris Olympics after ending a distant second within the Asian Games medals desk to hosts China.

Japan received 52 golds in Hangzhou and 188 medals total, down on their haul from the earlier Asian Games, in Jakarta in 2018.

They had been effectively behind China’s record-setting 201 golds.

But chef de mission Mitsugi Ogata mentioned Sunday that Japan’s younger athletes in not too long ago added Olympic sports activities can do the enterprise in Paris.

“Athletes and volunteers will be the two main aspects that we will appreciate and promote during the closing ceremony, which will last about 75 minutes,” mentioned Sha Xiaolan, chief director of the ceremony.

“We are trying to make it a celebration party for the athletes who all did their best in Hangzhou and made new friends off the field of play.

“We may also prolong our utmost gratitude to the entire volunteers, who’ve performed an important position within the success of the Games and should take middle stage on the finish.”

China, Taiwan and Japan received the final gold medals of the Hangzhou Asian Games on Sunday in inventive swimming and karate.

The final one went to Taiwan’s Gu Shiau-shuang, 26, who beat Kazakhstan’s Moldir Zhangbyrbay, 26, to defend the ladies’s 50 kg kumite title she received in Jakarta in 2018. This gave Taiwan 19 gold medals for the Games equalling their greatest ever gold haul achieved on the Bangkok Games in 1998.

In the boys’s crew kata karate competitors, Japan edged Macau within the last to take gold and in inventive swimming China received gold within the crew free routine, with Japan simply behind in silver and Kazakhstan taking bronze.

China completed with 201 golds, its greatest ever haul.

Hosts China completed high of the Asian Games medals desk with a file 201 golds, as Taiwan’s Gu Shiau-shuang received the ultimate occasion in Hangzhou on Sunday

Gu triumphed within the ladies’s karate -50kg kumite class, beating Kazakhstan’s Moldir Zhangbyrbay within the gold medal match by “Hantei” after a decent battle completed 5-5.

Earlier, Japan beat Macau to take the boys’s crew kata gold as the ultimate karate competitions introduced the curtain down on greater than two weeks of motion by 12,000 athletes in 40 sports activities.

China, who surpassed the 199 gold medals they received on the Guangzhou Games in 2010, additionally received 111 silvers and 71 bronze for a grand haul of 383 medals.

The hosts completed effectively away from Japan on 52 golds and South Korea, on 42, within the last medals desk.

The first gold medal of the Games was received by China on the rowing lake on a drizzly Sunday morning two weeks in the past.

PM Modi hails the Indian athletes for the historic achievement for the nation on the Asian Games. The Indian contingent bagged a file 107 medals – 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze – in Hangzhou, surpassing their earlier greatest, set at 2018 Jakarta.

While chatting with reporters, the Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned, “Our athletes performed very well during the #AsianGames. This was possible due to the dedication of our players as they are getting all the required facilities and resources.” 

China wins Gold in Artistic Swimming. Japan, Kazakhstan bag silver, bronze respectively

Chinese Premier Li Qiang will attend the closing ceremony of the nineteenth Asian Games in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on Oct. 8, a international ministry spokesperson introduced on Friday.

India’s first-ever particular person gold medallist Abhinav Bindra was delighted over India claiming greater than 100 medals within the nineteenth Asian Games. On India’s efficiency within the nineteenth Asian Games, former athlete Abhinav Bindra informed ANI, “It has been the most sensational performance. Just being a former athlete and part of the sports movement in India, I think I’m incredibly proud of this day.”

President Draupadi Murmu expressed her happiness after the Indian athletes introduced 107 medals house within the nineteenth Asian Games setting a brand new benchmark for medal tally. In a publish on X, teh President of India wrote, “India’s contingent indicators off Asian Games with a powerful present of talent and grit! Congratulations to the Indian men and women kabaddi groups for his or her gold medals! Indian males’s cricket crew additionally wins gold whereas males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty win India’s first-ever badminton gold medal. The nation is happy with the gamers who carry house 107 medals, setting new benchmarks of excellence.”

South Korea’s males defeated Japan 2-1 to take soccer gold on the Asian Games on Saturday and in addition collected the a lot larger prize of navy exemption.

All male gold-medal winners on the Games are, by South Korean legislation, granted exemptions from the 18 to 21 months of navy that each one able-bodied males should begin by the point they flip 28. Instead, Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Lee Kang-in together with 21 different gamers within the roster will solely be required to do 544 hours of group service.

It is the third successive triumph within the event for South Korea after profitable gold in 2014 and 2018, when English Premier League star Son Heung-min and Bayern Munich defender Kim Min-jae had been triumphant.

Olympics and Asian Games gold medallist Neeraj Chopra on Saturday admitted that he actually wished to breach the 90m mark this season and he has to seek out his full potential. After clinching a gold medal on the nineteenth Asian Games, Neeraj believes he hasn’t reached his full potential and, as he prepares for the 2024 Paris Olympics, has set his eyes on not solely breaking the 90-meter barrier but additionally establishing it as the brand new normal.

During a digital interplay, he mentioned, “This season, someplace by way of distance, I felt barely dangerous, I had accidents via the season. I wished to finish the 90m query this season, sorry I used to be not capable of.”

“So I’ve to seek out in myself what I can do, what mindset I could make that I can obtain my potential as a result of I really feel I’m nonetheless loads away from that,” he added.

Artistic swimming

07:30AM IST– Team free routine 

Karate

Session begins at 6:00 am IST

Followed by – Men’s crew kata, Women’s kumite -50kg

Asian Games 2023 LIVE Updates: Team India concluded its Asian Games efficiency with 107 medals. The crew ended on fourth place.