South Asian Games

 Nepal increased its gold medal haul to seven on Monday in the 11th South Asian Games in Dhaka. Deepak Bista, Ayusha Shakya, Binod Shakya and Ganga Adhikari added to the two gold medals that Nepal won on Sunday. Deepak and Ayusha won a fourth and fifth gold medals for Nepal both in taekwondo this afternoon whereas Binod and Ganga claimed the 6th and 7th gold medals in karate. Earlier on Monday morning wushu player Angbabu Lama bagged Nepal’s third gold medal. Meanwhile, Deepak Bista created history after defeating a Bhutanese player in the final in the under 87kg category of taekwondo to win a fourth consecutive gold medal at the South Asian Games. Binita Maharjan on Sunday won the first gold medal for Nepal in the Women’s Thaulo (Taichi Quan) in Sylhet. Likewise, Sunil Lama, in the men’s U-55 kg Kumite won the second gold medal for Nepal. However, the taekwondo gold medal winner in the last SA Games Manita Shahi could not repeat her feat in last SA Games after she lost ...

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.

Skipper Ajitesh Roy led from the front with five goals as the Indian hockey team mauled an inexperienced Nepal 21-0 to make a resounding start at the 11th South Asian Games on Saturday.  Such was India's domination in the match that even coach Clarence Lobo lost count of the team's goal scorers. Asked how many goals did Man-of-the-Match Roshan Minz score, the amazed coach turned to one of the players for an answer. According to the coach, India fielded a second string side captained by Ajitesh Roy but the completely inexperienced Nepal, who incidentally featured in their second international outing after 10 years, crumbled nonetheless. Nepalese, who were playing after featuring in the 1995 Games in Chennai, were playing on the artificial turf for the first time. It was complete domination by India as Roy led from the front, banging in five goals in the 15th, 58th, 59th, 66th and 68th minutes. Indian forwards Yuvraj Walmiki and Mohammed Aamir Khan slammed the board ...

Nepal has smooth run in South Asian Games, till now they won a Total of 33 Gold medals, 89 Silver and 244 Bronze medals. They gave their best performance in 2006 where they won 9 Gold medals. They won total of 366 medals till now. S.No. Game Year Location Medals Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 I 1984 Kathmandu - Nepal 4 8 12 24 2 II 1985 Dhaka - Banglad...