Three cheers to India!

Indian para athletes on Thursday created history by winning the highest number of medals in the Asian Para Games taking the countryrsquos tally to 82 including 18 goldIndia have now gone past the earlier best of 72 medals achieved in the 2018 edition in IndonesiaAlso ReadMumbai U19 girls win BCCI oneday competitionWin 18 medals on Day 4India added 18 medals including three gold on Thursday Indiarsquos medals tally stood at 18 gold 23 silver and 41 bronze at the end of the fourth day of competitions Indiarsquos position in the medals tally however dropped two places to eight as not too many gold medals were won on ThursdaySouth Korea and Indonesia moved ahead of India in the medals tally led by China 156 gold 128 silver 108 bronze With two more days left in the Games the country is on course of achieving its target of 100 medals in this edition of the GamesIndia had won 72 medals 15 gold 24 silver 33 bronze in the last edition in Jakarta which was the best before the Hangzhou Games Eight medals including one gold were won by track and field athletes on Thursday45 medals in athleticsOverall athletics contributed 45 medals out of Indiarsquos total of 82 and 14 gold out of the countryrsquos total of 18 so farSachin Sarjerao Khilari won the first gold of the day in menrsquos F46 shot put with a Games record throw of 1603m while Rohit Kumar took the bronze with 1456mPara shooter Sidhartha Babu then bagged another gold in R6 mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 event as he shot an Asian Para Games score of 2477The compound mixed team of Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar won a gold after defeating their Chinese counterparts Lin Yueshan and Ai Xinliang 151149 in the finalIndia also won a bronze medal in archery menrsquos doubles W1 event with the pair of Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari and Naveen Dalal defeating the Kazakh pair of Nurshat Toleukassym and Sagdat Duisembayev 125120Narayan Thakur won a bronze in menrsquos T35 100m with a time of 1437 seconds Shreyansh Trivedi also took a bronze in menrsquos T37 100m with a time of 1224 secondsMuthuraja also won a bronze in the menrsquos F55 shot put with a throw of 1042mSimran and Bhagyashri Madhavrao Jadhav won a silver each in womenrsquos T12 100m and womenrsquos F34 shot put respectively Simran clocked 2612 seconds while Jadhav cleared 754mGhangas bags discus silverMonu Ghangas also picked up a silver in menrsquos F11 discus throw with an effort of 3787mIn para badminton Sukant Indukant Kadam menrsquos singles SL4 Sivan Nithya Sumathy womenrsquos singles SH6 Manisha Ramadass womenrsquos singles SU5 Mandeep KaurManisha Ramadass womenrsquos doubles SL3SU5 Krishna NagarSivarajan Solaimalai menrsquos doubles SH6 and Pramod BhagatSukant Indukant Kadam menrsquos doubles SL3SL4 won a bronze medal each after losing their respective semifinal matches In chess Bhaveshkumar Rathi Himanshi picked up a bronze in womenrsquos individual standard VIB1 eventThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever