Busan round up

Continuing their dismal run, Indian shooters failed to bag any medal for the third successive day. The Indian team of Anjali Bhagwat, Deepali Deshpande Andkuheli Gangulee finished a poor seventh in the women’s 50m rifle three position team event with a total of 1701 points as the strong Chinese shooters continued to rule the roost picking up most of the gold medals on offer. Anjali returned with a rather poor score of 569, Deepali and Kuheli managed 574 and 558. The gold medal in the event was expectedly claimed by the Chinese trio of Li Du, Xian Wang and Hong Shan who had an aggregate of 1754 to not only establish a new Asian Games record but also equal the world record.

Harpal wins, Bahadur out

Heavyweight pugilist Harpal Singh became the third Indian to move into the quarter-finals. Displaying excellent technique and agility, Harpal kept his medal hopes alive beating Lebanon’s Mansour Ali 20-16 in a keenly contested the 91 plus category bout at the Masan Gymnasium. But Commonwealth Games silver medallist Som Bahadur Pun stumbled at the first hurdle. Pun started on a promising note but could not maintain the rhythm to go down to China’s Tongzhou Chen 14-29 without posing much of a challenge in the feather weight (57 kg) category.

Kabaddi: India-Pak final

Defending champions India kept themselves on track for a coveted gold medal by trouncing Sri Lanka in their penultimate league match to register their fourth successive win in the kabaddi event of the 14th asian games here today. India will now play their last match against arch rivals Pakistan which would determine the champions. The Indians had no difficulty in brushing aside the challenge of the Sri Lankans to record an emphatic 50-21 victory.

Broken arrow

Indians failed to make much of an impact in the archery event with the South Koreans occupying the top positions in the FITA round qualifications here today. Satyadev Prasad was the pick of the Indian archers as he took the 10th position in the men’s individual fita round 90m and 70m preliminaries with a total of 636 points on a rather dismal day for the Indians. The seasoned Limba Ram also did not perform upto expectations to be pushed to the 14th position with a total of 633 points.