SENTHIL KUMAR: India's Performance in Asian Games 2014

India

completed its engagements at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon with a double gold in Kabaddi, where both the men and women teams overcame Iran to clinch gold. India ended the Games with a total of 57 medals, including 11 gold, 9 silver and 37 bronze, which is 8 less than the 65 medals (14 gold, 17 silver and 34 bronze)

India

won at the Guangzhou Games four years ago. Athletics and shooting bagged the most number of medals at Incheon, 13 and 9 respectively.

India’s Performance in 2014 Asian Games
Winners of Gold Medals
#	Winner	Gender	Event
01	Jitu Rai	Male	50m pistol
02	Rajat Chauhan Sandeep Kumar Abhishek Verma	Male	Archery Men’s Compound Team
03	Yogeshwar Dutt	Male	Wrestling - men's freestyle 65kg
04	Saurav Ghosal Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu Kush Kuamr Mahesh Manaonkar Mahesh	Male	Squash – team event
05	Seema Punia	Female	Athletics – Women’s shot put
06	Sania Mirza Saketh Myneni	Mixed	Tennis – Mixed Doubles
07	Mary Kom	Female	Boxing – Women’s 48-51 kg freestyle
08	Indian Hockey Team	Male	Hockey
09	Priyanka Panwar Tintu Luka Mandeep Kaur and MR Poovamma	Female	Athletics – 4*400m relay
10	Indian Kabaddi Team	Female	Kabaddi
11	Indian Kabaddi Team	Male	Kabaddi

Winners of Silver Medals
#	Winner	Gender	Event
01	Saurav Goshal	Male	Squash
02	Pemba Tamang Vijay Kumar Gurpreet Singh	Male	Shooting - Men’s 25m centre fire pistol team event
03	Khushbir Kaur	Female	Athletics - Women’s 20km walk
04	Abhishek Verma	Male	Archery - Men’s individual
05	Dipika Pallikal Anaka Alankamony Joshana Chinappa Aparajitha Balamurukan	Female	Squash – Women’s team event
06	Bajrang Kumar	Male	Wrestling - Men’s Freestyle 61 kg
07	Saketh Sai Myneni Sanam Singh	Male	Tennis – Men’s Doubles
08	Vikas Gowda	Male	Athletics – Men’s Discus Throw
09	Tintu Lukka	Female	Athletics – Women’s 800m

Winners of Bronze Medals
#	Winner	Gender	Event
01	Shweta Chaudhry	Female	10m Air Pistol
02	Jitu Rai Samresh Jung Prakash Nanjappa	Male	10m Air Pistol Team Event
03	Dipika Pallikal	Female	Squash
04	Rahi Sarnobat Anisa Sayyed Heena Sidhu	Female	25m Pistol Team Event
05	Saina Nehwal Ashwini Ponnappa P V Sindhu P C Thulasi Sikki Reddy Gadre Pradnya Tanvi Lad	Female	Badminton Women Team
06	Abhinav Bindra Sanjeev Rajput Ravi Kumar	Male	10m Air Pistol Team Event
07	Abhinav Bindra	Male	10m Air Rifle
08	Narendra Grewal	Male	Wushu – 60 Kgs
09	Sanathoi Devi	Female	Wushu – 51 Kgs
10	Dushyant Singh	Male	Rowing
11	Kapil Sharma Ranjit Singh Bajranglal Takhar Robin Panachithanathu Sawan Kumar Mohammad Azad Maninder Singh Davinder Singh Mohammed Ahmed	Male	Rowing – Men’s Eight Team
12	Shagun Chowdhary Shreyasi Singh Varsha Varman	Female	Shooting - Double Trap Women’s Team
13	Sawarn Singh	Male	Rowing – Men’s Single Sculls
14	Trisha Deb Purvasha Sudhir Shende Jyothi Surekha Vennam	Female	Archery - Women’s Compound Team
15	Sandeep Sejwal	Male	Athletics - Swimming Men’s 50m Breaststroke
16	Lalita Shivaji	Female	Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase
17	Bala Manju	Female	Athletics - Women’s Hammer Throw
18	Poovamma Raju Machettira	Female	Athletics - Women’s 400 meter
19	Arokiarajiv	Male	Men’s 400 meter
20	Chain Singh	Male	Men’s 50m rifle 3 positions
21	Trisha Deb	Female	Archery – Women’s individual
22	Geetika Jakhar	Female	Wrestling – Women’s 63kg freestyle
23	Yukhi Bambri	Male	Tennis –Men’s singles
24	Sania Mirza Prarthana Thombare	Female	Tennis – Women’s doubles
25	Vinesh Phogat	Female	Wrestling – Women’s 48kg freestyle
26	Yukhi Bhambri Divij Sharan	Male	Tennis – Men’s Doubles
27	O. P. Jaisha	Female	Athletics – Women’s 1500m
28	Naveen Kumar	Male	Athletics – Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
29	Narsingh Pancham Yadav	Male	Wrestling - Men’s Freestyle 74 kg
30	Sarita Devi	Female	Boxing – Women’s 57-60 kg
31	Indian Hockey Team	Female	Hockey Team
32	Pooja Rani	Female	Boxing – Women’s 69-75 kgs Middle Weight
33	Varsha Gautam Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan	Female	Sailing – 293r – Women’s two person Dinghy
34	Inderjeet Singh	Male	Athletics – Shot put
35	Vikas Krishnan	Male	Boxing – Men’s 75 kgs (Middle Weight)
36	Sathish Krishnan	Male	Boxing – Men’s 91+ kgs (Super Heavy Weight)
37	Annu Rani	Female	Athletics – Javelin Throw

Note:

· Seema Punia was the first Indian athlete to win Gold medal in Athletics event in Asian Games History

· Indian Hockey (Men) team won gold by defeating Pakistan. It is their first Gold in Asian Games since 1998; with this win, India directly qualified for 2016 Olympics

· Mary Kom won her first Gold medal in Asian Games; first Indian women to win the gold medal in Boxing

Sporting Field	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Archery	1	1	2	4
Athletics	2	3	8	13
Badminton	-	-	1	1
Boxing	1	-	1	2
Hockey	1	-	1	2
Kabaddi	2	-	-	2
Rowing	-	-	3	3
Sailing	-	-	1	1
Shooting	1	1	7	9
Squash	1	2	1	4
Swimming	-	-	1	1
Tennis	1	1	3	5
Wrestling	1	1	3	5
Wushu	-	-	2	2
Total	11	9	37	65

Multiple Winners in 2014 Asian Games:-

Athlete	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Jitu Rai	Shooting	1	-	1*	2
Saurav Ghosal	Squash	1*	1	-	2
Sania Mirza	Tennis	1*	-	1*	2
Tintu Lukka	Athletics	1*	1	-	2
Dipkia Pallikal	Squash	-	1*	1	2
Abhinav Bindra	Shooting	-	-	2 (1+1*)	2
Poovvama	Athletics	1*	-	1	2
Abhishek Verma	Shooting	1*	1	-	2
Yukhi Bhambri	Tennis	-	-	2 (1+1*)	2
Note:* à won in Mixed / Doubles / Team Events

Medals	Male	Female	Mixed	Total
Gold	6 (4*)	4(2*)	1	11
Silver	6 (1*)	3 (1*)	-	09
Bronze	17 (3*)	20 (6*)	-	37
Total	29	27	01	57

India’s Performance in 2014 Asian Games
Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1951*	15	16	20	51	2
1954	5	4	8	17	5
1958	5	4	4	7	13
1962	10	13	10	33	3
1966	7	3	11	21	5
1970	6	9	10	25	5
1974	4	12	12	28	4
1978	11	11	6	28	6
1982*	13	19	25	57	5
1986	5	9	23	37	5
1990	1	8	14	23	11
1994	4	3	16	23	8
1998	7	11	17	35	9
2002	11	12	13	36	8
2006	10	17	26	53	8
2010	14	17	34	65	6
2014	11	9	37	57	8
* -> India hosted the Event