India completed this version’s Asian Games with a never-before-seen 107 medals, 30 greater than its earlier finest efficiency of 70 medals in 2018.

But the age distinction between the youngest and the oldest medallist on the Asiad is occasion wider – 50!

The monitor and subject athletes had been the best, bringing house 29 medals, together with a historic one-two in males’s javelin occasion between Olympic gold-medallist Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Kumar Jena. However, two others— Sanjana Bathula and Jaggy Shivdasani— added their names to India’s document books.

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Sanjana, teamed up with Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Heeral Sadhu and Aarathy Kasturi Raj clinched bronze within the ladies’s 3000m curler skating relay with a timing of 4:34.861, turn out to be India’s youngest Indian medallist.

Meanwhile, bridge participant Shivdasani, who was born on February 16, 1958, grew to become India’s oldest medallist on the Asiads. He was part of the bridge crew that clinched silver after scoring 152 within the last towards Hong Kong China throughout six periods.

The Indian males’s bridge crew on the Asian Games 2023 comprised Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Sumit Mukherjee, Raju Tolani and Ajay Prabhakar Khare.

Incidentally, Shivadasani, Tiwari and Mukherjee had been additionally a part of the squad that bagged the boys’s crew bronze when bridge made its debut on the Asian Games in 2018.