After successful a bronze medal within the ladies’s Heptathlon 800m within the ongoing Asian Games on Sunday, Indian athlete Nandini Agasara mentioned she by no means thought that she can be successful a medal on the nineteenth Asian Games. While chatting with ANI, the Indian athlete mentioned that this was her first worldwide match on the senior degree and he or she by no means thought that she can be getting a medal within the multi-sport occasion. “This is my first international match in the senior category and I got a medal, last time I participated in the junior category… I never thought that I would be getting a medal in such a big competition,” Nandini Agasara instructed ANI.

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The 20-year-old completed third in her debut on the Asian Games with a factors tally of 5712. She completed above her nationwide teammate Swapna Barman by a four-point margin. Meanwhile, Swapna completed in fourth place with 5708 factors.

Earlier on Sunday, medals showered for India within the observe and discipline occasions on the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Tajinderpal Singh Toor received India’s second gold in athletics within the shot put occasion with a 20.36m throw.

On the opposite hand, Avinash Sable received a gold medal within the males’s steeplechase 3000m with record-breaking timing within the historical past of the Asian Games.

India added a bronze medal to its tally after the boys’s and girls’s velocity skating groups of Sanjana Bathula, Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Heeral Sadhu, Aarathy Kasturi Raj, Aryanpal Ghuman, Anand Velkumar, Siddhant Kamble and Vikram Ingale completed third in 3000m relay race.

Later within the day, the Indian pair of Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee misplaced a seven-game thriller in opposition to North Korea’s Cha Suyong and Pak Sugyong within the ladies’s doubles semifinal to seal a bronze medal.

Now, India stands in fourth place with a complete of 56 medals within the nineteenth Asian Games which incorporates 13 gold, 21 silver, and 22 bronze medals.