India at Asian Games, Oct 3 as it happened: Annu, Parul clinch gold medals; two medals in boxing

That’s it for Scroll’s coverage of the Asian Games for today.

India’s track and field stars continued to add to the medal tally today with five medals including two gold to better their medal tally from five years ago. In Jakarta 2018, India won 20 medals in athletics and have won 22 medals already.

India’s stars today were Parul Chaudhary and Annu Rani. Chaudhary, having won silver in the 3000m steeplechase yesterday, came up with a stunning last-gasp dash to win gold in the 5000m race. Rani came up with her season best throw to clinch her first Asiad gold.

Boxers Preeti Pawar and Narender won bronze medals in their respective categories after losing in their semi-finals while there was a historic bronze medal in canoeing from Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam.

Sportclimbing, Men’s Speed: Aman Verma lost to Singapore’s Leonard Veddriq in 1/8 Heat 1 by a mere 0.168s to exit the competition.

Sportclimbing, Women’s Speed: Anisha Verma and Shivpreet Pannu lose 1/8 Heat 3 and 7 respectively to crash out of the competition in the pre-quarterfinal stage.

Bridge, Men’s Team Semi-finals: India ends with a win, a draw, and a loss in three sessions against China on Tuesday. While they won the first session 62-22, they drew the second 22-22....

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