South Asian Games

Indian swimmers concluded their campaign at the 11th South Asian Games in style, winning four more gold medals with a new meet record and took their overall tally to 25 here today. India also bagged a silver to sign off from the event with a haul of 16 gold, seven silver and two bronze medals. Thus Indian swimmers reigned in the pool in 16 of the 19 competitions held. In the 50m breaststroke, Arjun Jaya Prakash shattered the 30.43 record held by Mohammad Shahajahan Ali Rony of Bangladesh as he clocked 30.04 en route to the gold medal. Local lads Mohammad Shahajahan Ali Rony (31.04) and Mohammad Kamal Hossain (31.05) took the silver and bronze respectively. Having made a national meet record in the 50m butterfly, Shubha Chittaranjan picked her second gold medal when she finished first in the 50m freestyle with a timing of 27.98s.

India defended their volleyball gold medal by defeating Pakistan in the final by 3-1(23-25, 25-23, 25-14, 25-16) in the South Asian Games at the Mirpur Shaheed Sohrawardy Indoor Stadium here. Subba Rao, Ukkara Pandian Sanjay Kumar, Naveen Raja Jacob and Srikanth were the stars of the show, as well as the Indian Senior Men's Team. Subba Rao played extraordinary in blocking while Ukkara Pandian created some excellent set-ups and adding to the game plan were some extraordinary counter attacks by Naveen Raja Jacob and Srikanth which enabled the team to win with formidable margin. Indian coach G.E.Sridharan said, “Our hard work has paid off. The key to our success was our attack. Our blockers also stepped up in the finals blocking Pakistan attackers on a regular basis.”

India Senior Women won the 11th South Asian Games women’s football tournament registering a comfortable 3-1 victory against Nepal in the finals played at Bangabandhu Stadium here on Monday. It was Nepal who took the lead but India Senior Women came back strongly to level the terms when Bembem Devi converted from the spot as first half ended 1-1. India Senior Women stepped up the pressure on their opponent and scored two more goals in the second half through Naobi Chanu to register a historic win.  India Senior Women emerged invincible winning all their matches and altogether scored 29 goals in five matches. Besides Gold, India were also awarded the Fair Play trophy.

India defeated Sri Lanka in Men's Team championship of Badminton by 3-0. India won its 10th Gold. Match overview Order Event INDIA - SRI LANKA Score Points Duration 1 MS1 Chetan Anand B - E Niluka Karunaratne 21-12   21-18 1-0 0:37 2 MS2 Gurusaidutt R M V - E Dinuka Karunaratna 21-8   21-18 1-0 0:33 3 MS3 Aditya Raviprakash - Nuwan D J Hettiarachchi 21-10   21-15 1-0 0:28 4 MD1 Sanave Thomas Rupesh Kumar K T - Rajitha S Dahanayaka Hasitha Chanaka M H 5 MD2 Diju Valiyaveetil Chetan Anand B - E Dinuka Karunaratna E Diluka Karunaratne

India won WOMEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS in badminton. India defeated Sri Lanka in finals by 3-0. Indian team comprise of  Sayali Gokhale, Trupti Murgunde, Thulasi P C, Shruti Kurien, Aparna Balan, Ashwini Ponnappa M WOMEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS  Quarter Finals   Semi Finals   Finals   Winner  1   INDIA       INDIA   2   Bye          INDIA   3   NEPAL     5-0         NEPAL   4   Bye           INDIA   5   BANGLADESH     3-0         BANGLADESH   6   PAKISTAN     3-2         SRI LANKA   7   Bye     5-0        SRI LANKA   8   SRI LANKA     

Undoubtedly India is the Best country of South Asian games. India won in all 809 Gold medals which is higher then total medals won by 5 countries. Sri Lanka and Pakistan are only the countries which over comes this mark in total number of medals they won till date in South Asian games. Sri lanka won 821 total medals and Pakistan won 836 medals in total. If we see India's total medals telly, India won 809 Gold, 497 Silver and 274 Bronze which in total is 1580 medals. S.No. Game Year Location Medals Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 I 1984 Ka...