India created history by recording their best-ever performance in Asian Games with 64 medals, including a record 14 gold. India won four Gold, three Silver and Four bronze medals on the penultimate day of the Games .
With the addition of 11 more medals, India’s tally has climbed to a record 14 gold, 17 silver and 33 bronze. India have jumped to the sixth place in the overall standings.
India’s best medal haul till date was recorded in the 1982 Games in Delhi when they had won 13 gold, 19 silver and 25 bronze for an overall tally of 57. India had finished 10th in the last edition of the Games in Doha with a tally of 10 Gold, 17 Silver and 26 Bronze.
The most important thing which is to be noticed is the performance of indian athelete in track and feild . Indian athelete won a total of 5 Gold 2 Silver and 5 bronze medal.
What makes 2010 even more special is that it hasn’t been just the usual throwers and middle-distance runners wrapped in Tricolour on the podium. The highs have come from sprints and long-distance races, involving both men and women, marking the arrival of Indian athletes on the world stage.
While India won more gold medals in athletics in the 2002 Busan Asiad, the fact that Guangzhou was their second noteworthy performance after the recently concluded Commonwealth Games has made people sit up and take notice.
Korea’s Jae-Keun Chang, who won the 200 m Asiad gold at a packed Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in 1982, thinks that the giant is awakening.
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