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Notes But his dream got shattered first by Kazakh Evginiy Ektov’s 16.86m in reply to the Indian’s

16.71m in the fi nal try, before Chinese defending champion Li Yanxi uncorked a winning leap of

16.94, incidentally his season’s best, in his fifth and last attempt to take care of the gold.
Had Maheswary come anywhere near his CWG effort of 17.07m, he would have easily won the

gold, but under pressure and in his final leap the Kerala jumper faltered to finish in fourth place

as another Chinese Asian junior champion Cao Shuo also leaped past him with a 16.84m effort in

the final attempt to grab the bronze.
India’s second entrant, Amarjit Singh, ended up a poor 7th with a best try of 16.15m from 16
starters.
The Indian men’s 4x100m relay squad narrowly missed the bronze medal after a great anchor leg

by Mohamed Abdul Najeeb who started in fifth position when the baton was passed to him by
third runner Shameer Naseem Mon and nearly edged out the last runner of Thailand, Sittichai
Sowonprateep. The other Indian runners were M Rahamatulla and Suresh Sathya.
Two bronze medals came from roller sports with Anup Kumar Yama bagging one in men’s single

free skating before combining with Avani Panchal to finish third in the pairs skating event.
Anup totalled 244.2 in his singles routine for which he fetched 123.6 on technical merit and 120.6
for artistic impression.

In the pairs event, Anup and Avani combined for a score of 222 which included 112.5 points on
technical merit and 109.5 for artistic impression.
Indian men’s chess team of P Harikrishna, Sasikiran Krishnan, Surya Shekar Ganguly and B
Adhiban contributed a bronze with a 3.0-0.5 victory over Iran the ninth and fi nal round.
Despite suffering an elbow injury, Indian woman wrestler Suman Kundu reached the semifi nals
of the 63kg freestyle wrestling but failed a get a bronze.

The injury hampered her from giving her best in the semifinal bout and she lost 0-3 to Mongolia’s
Nasanbyrmaa Ochirbat. She was overwhelmed 0-5 by China’s Chen Meng in the bronze-medal
play-off.
(Source: Times of India)

Keywords

Crouch: Adopt a position in which the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and
down, typically in order to avoid detection or to defend oneself
Facile: Superfi cial, simplistic

Penultimate: Second to last
Pugilists: One who has the skills and practice in sport of fighting with the fi sts; boxer

Quadrennial: Recurring every four years
Quartet: Group of four

Sepak Takraw: Kick volleyball, famous in Malay-Thai peninsula
Exercises

1. Write another article that summarises the performance of Indian sportspersons at Asian
Games. The headline of the article should be different, the article should not exceed 10 lines
and there should a minimum of two paragraphs.

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