India on Wednesday made the nineteenth Asian Games their most profitable ever, surpassing the 70 medals they gained in Jakarta 5 years in the past. It was a day that was ultimately headlined by a sensational battle within the javelin between Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Kumar Jena, and an outstanding run within the males’s 4x400m relay.

Here, ESPN India picks out 9 distinctive numbers that really helped outline the day that India had on Wednesday, October 4.

88.88

Perfect quantity for the proper champion. Neeraj Chopra, beneath excessive strain, threw a season’s greatest 88.88m to take gold from compatriot Kishore Kumar Jena within the males’s javelin.

0.04

Jena, in the meantime, improved upon his private greatest twice (and massively). The second time he did it, with 87.54m, he got here inside 0.04m (4 cm) of the mark that had gained Neeraj Chopra Olympic immortality.

2-2-1

In her first Asian Games, Harmilan Bains did one thing fairly superior, successful silvers within the 1500m and the 800m.

What made the latter medal much more particular was this: https://twitter.com/ESPNIndia/status/1709533190002724873

0/4, 1/5?

Saurav Ghoshal has gained males’s singles medals at 5 consecutive Asian Games now; however has by no means gained the gold medal earlier than. Come tomorrow, can the 37-year-old nice lastly, do it?

Not 6

2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018: 4x400m girls’s relay, India gold. Five consecutive years, they’d gained, and within the sixth (2023) they broke the Games Record. And but completed second as Bahrain ran an unimaginable race to interrupt a exceptional streak.

0.47s

The males’s crew, although, made up for it by pipping defending champions Qatar to 4x400m males’s relay gold. And they did it by 0.47 seconds.

3

Only three Indian boxers have medalled on the Olympics, World Championships & Asian Games: Vijender Singh, MC Mary Kom and now 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻.

32

After opening their Asian Games with a 34-34 tie vs Chinese Taipei; however have since overwhelmed South Korea 56-23 and immediately afternoon beat Thailand 54-22, regardless of slipping into second gear midway by the sport.

1

Three factors separated winner from loser within the quarterfinal. Five within the semifinal. And within the remaining, only one. By the slenderest of margins, Ojas Deotale and Jyothi Surekha Vennam pulled out one thing magical and with it got here Asiad Gold within the combined crew compound archery crew occasion.