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Unit 8: News and Magazine Articles

The men’s kabaddi team maintained their impeccable track record by winning the gold medal Notes
for the sixth time on the trot, demolishing Iran with a facile 37-20 margin what turned out to be
a lop-sided contest.
The script unfolded on expected lines for the women’s kabaddi team also as they completed a
memorable Asian Games debut by clinching the gold medal with a comprehensive win over
Thailand in the fi nal.

The Indians beat Thailand 28-14 in a dominating performance to clinch the inaugural women’s
kabaddi gold of the Asian Games.
World number one Vijender added another feather on his cap by clinching an unprecedented
second boxing gold for India in the Asian Games to round off the best ever campaign by the
country’s pugilists at the quadrennial mega-event.
It was sweet revenge for Olympic and World Championship bronze-medallist Vijender when
he blanked reigning world champion Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan 7-0. Atoev had beaten the

25-year-old Indian at the World Championship semifinals last year but Vijender wiped off the

disappointment with a performance fitting the hype around him.
The dashing six-footer Indian crouched a bit and took full advantage of his long reach and taller
height against Atoev, whom he had beaten in Asian Championships last year.

Hitting straight and clear, Vijender, who was a bronze-medallist at the 2006 Asian Games,
defended stoutly, seldom letting Atoev to attack.
However, V Santhosh Kumar (64kg) and Manpreet Singh (91kg) settled for silver medals after
losing in the fi nals.

While Santhosh lost 1-16 to Kazakhstan’s Daniyar Yeleussinov in finals, Manpreet went down
1-8 to Mohammad Ghossoun of Syria to take India’s silver tally to three in boxing after Dinesh
Kumar (81kg) had finished second yesterday.

The athletics team also ended their campaign with a bagful of medals with the women’s 4x400m
relay quartet winning the gold to bring down curtains with a bang.

India emerged from the track and field events with five gold, two silver and four bronze medals,
one of their best efforts in Asian Games history, though below their performance in 2002 Busan
Asian Games where they had a 7-6-5 medal haul.
Having started their campaign with a golden double in the women’s 10,000m and 3,000m

steeplechase through Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh on the first day, the 4x400m relay team
of Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, AC Ashwini and Mandeep Kaur ended the campaign by clinching
gold in 3 minutes 29.02secs.
Kazakhstan took the silver in 3:30.03 while China claimed the bronze in 3:30.89.

It was the fifth gold from the athletics arena for India following gold medals by Ashwini in the
400m hurdles and by Joseph Abraham in the corresponding men’s event and the opening day’s
heroics by Preeja and Sudha.
Preeja, however, could only get a silver in the women’s 5000m despite making a great effort to
catch Bahrain’s eventual gold winner Mimi Belete while compatriot Kavita Raut got the bronze
as India won one gold, a silver and a bronze.
Preeja and Kavita clocked their personal bests of 15:15.89 and 15:16.54 while Belete had a timing
of 15:15.59.

Renjith Maheswary, bronze winner in the Commonwealth Games, looked headed for the gold in
men’s triple jump when he took the lead with his fourth attempt of 16.74m.

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