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Highlights of 18th Asian Games 2018

Asian Games
Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event.It will be conducted every four years
from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the 1951 Asian
Games, officially known as the First Asian Game in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games.

i.The Games are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are described as the second
largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games.

ii.Forty-six nations have participated in the Games, including Israel, which was excluded from the Games after
their last participation in 1974.

• 2022:- 19th Asian Games is scheduled to take place in Hangzhou, China.

• 2014 :-Asian Games has conducted in Incheon,South Korea.

iii.India ranked 8th in 2014 Asian Games. India bagged 57 medals including 11 Gold, 10 Silver and 36
Bronze in 2014 Asian Games.

Asian Games 2018

18th Asian Games also known as Jakarta-Palembang 2018held from 18
August to 2 September 2018. Indonesia hosted second time after 1962.The
Asian Games are being co-hosted in two cities;

• the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and Palembang,

• the capital of the South Sumatra province for the first time.

Cenderawasih, a rare species of a bird in Indonesia had been selected as emblem for the 2018 Asian
Games.But later this has been dropped and three new mascots were unveiled.

Motto Mascots
“Energy of Asia” Bhin Bhin – a greater bird of
paradise
Atung – a Bawean deer
Kaka – a Javan rhinoceros

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i. The mascots Bhin Bhin, Atung, and Kaka represent the Eastern, Central, and Westernregions of
Indonesia and also strategy, speed and strength respectively.
ii. There are 45 nations have participated in 18th Asian Games. There are 465 events in 40 sports. The
opening and closing ceremonies of the Games will be held at Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium in Jakarta.
iii. Lucia Francisca Susy Susanti is a retired Indonesian badminton player who carried torch light at the
18th Asian Games.
iv.The sport of bridge has been introduced for the first time in the Asian Games 2018.

Kho-Kho gets recognition from Olympic Council of Asia

• The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has given recognition to India’s indigenous sport of Kho-Kho,
The decision to recognise Kho-Kho was taken in the General Assembly of the OCA held here on August
19 2018.
• Kho-Kho will now be included as a demonstration sport in the Asian Indoor Games, with the
possibility of being included as a discipline in the next Asian Games, official sources told PTI.

Overview of Asian games 2018:-

i.The 2018 Asian Games closing ceremony was held on 2nd Sep.2018 at the Gelora Bung Karno Main
Stadium in Jakarta.

ii.China led the medal table for the 10th consecutive time. Chinese multinational holding conglomerate
Alibaba founder Jack Ma and gold medal swimmer Sun Yang promoted their birth city Hangzhou, as the city
will host the 2022 Asian Games.

iii.North Korea and South Korea march under the Korean Unification Flag at the opening ceremony and, for
the first time, compete as a unified team in some events. They won one and first gold medal as a unified team.

iv.Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee was announced as the most valuable player (MVP) of the 2018 Asian
Games.

v.For the first time,eSports and Canoe Polo were contested as demonstration sports.

vi.The 6 world, 18 Asian and 86 Asian Games records were broken during the event of 2018 Asian Game.

2018 Asian Games Medal Table

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 China (CHN) 132 92 65 289

2 Japan (JPN) 75 56 74 205

3 South Korea (KOR) 49 58 70 177

4 Indonesia (INA) 31 24 43 98

5 Uzbekistan (UZB) 21 24 25 70

8 India (IND) 15 24 30 69

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India at 18th Asian Games 2018

India is participating with 572 in 36 sports. It is India’s 18th appearance at the Asian Game.

• Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was the flag bearer for India at the opening ceremony of the Games.
• Indian women’s hockey team captain Rani Rampal was India’s flag-bearer at the closing
ceremony.

Highlights:-

i.India finished the 18th Asian Games with 69 medals which became highest number of medals in Asian
Games since it participated. They won 15 gold, 24 silver and 30 bronze medals.

ii.India beats its previous best medal count of 65 at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

iii.Govindan Lakshmanan was disqualified after winning bronze in the men’s 10,000m event due to stepped
out of the track during one of the laps at the Asian Game.

Wrestling:-

Wrestler Bajrang Punia won gold medal in the men’s 65 kg freestyle

On August 19 2018,Wrestler Bajrang Puniar from Haryana won India’s first gold
medal in the 18th Asian Games after defeating Takatani Daichi of Japan in the men’s 65 kg
freestyle. The 24-year-old Indian had won three consecutive gold medals – CWG (Gold
Coast), Tbilisi Grand Prix (Georgia) and Yasar Dogu International (Istanbul).He had won
silver medal in Asian Games 2014.

Vinesh Phogat won gold medal in the 50kg women’s wrestling

On August 20 2018, Vinesh Phogat from Haryana defeated Yuki Irie of Japan in the 50kg
category at the Asian Games 2018. She became the first Indian woman wrestler to win
a gold medal at the Asian Games.She won the gold medal in women’s 50kg freestyle
wrestling at 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.She won a bronze medal in the
women’s freestyle 48 kg category at Incheon in 2014.

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MEDAL NAME EVENT

Gold Bajrang Puniar men’s 65 kg freestyle
Gold Vinesh Phogat 50kg women’s
Bronze Divya Kakran 68kg women’s
wrestling

Shooting

India’s 16 year old Saurabh Chaudhary wins 10m air pistol gold

Saurabh Chaudhary from Uttar Pradesh won the Gold medal at the 2018 Asian
Games in 10 m air pistol.He had earlier won a gold medal and set a new junior
world record in the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl ,Germany.

Rahi Sarnobat becomes first Indian woman shooter to win Asian Games gold in 25m Pistol

Rahi Sarnobat from Maharashtra became the first Indian woman shooter to win
gold at the Asian Games against Naphaswan Yangpaiboon of Thailand in the
Women’s 25m Pistol event in Palembang.

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Gold Saurabh Chaudhary 10m air pistol
Gold Rahi Sarnobat 25m Pistol
Silver 15-year-old Shardul Vihan double trap men’s competition
Silver Deepak Kumar 10m Air Rifle
Silver Lakshay Sheoran men’s trap event
Silver Sanjeev Rajput men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions event
Bronze Heena Sidhu 10m air pistol
Ravi Kumar and Apurvi
Bronze Chandela 10m Air Rifle Mixed event
Bronze Abhishek Verma 10m Air Pistol

Sepak takraw
Indian mens team won first historic bronze in Sepak takraw
Indian won bronze medal in Sepak takraw against Thailand in the semi-finals of the men’s team Regu Event at
the ongoing 18th edition of Asian Games.This is India’s first medal in sepak takraw since the debut of the
sport in the 1990 Asian Games.

Athletics

Tejinder Pal Singh wins Gold in Men’s Shot-Put

Tejinder Pal Singh from Punjab won Gold medal in Men’s Shot Put throw with
20.75m in Jakarta, Indonesia.He was breaking the Games record of Saudi Arabia’s
Sultan Abdulmajeed (20.57m) set in 2010 break Om Prakash and also Singh’s
national mark (20.69m, 2012).

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Neeraj Chopra won a gold medal in Javelin-Throw

Neeraj Chopra is a first Indian javelin thrower to win an Asian Games gold
medal.He set a national record by 88.06m in Jakarta,Indonesia. India’s only
second medal in javelin throw in Asian Games history after Gurtej Singh won
a bronze in 1982.Neeraj Chopra is from the Khandra Village, Panipat,
Haryana, India

• He won a gold medal in 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in

Bydgoszcz, Poland. He also set a world junior record.
• He also became the second Indian after Milkha Singh to win a
Commonwealth and Asian Games gold in atheletics in the same year.

Arpinder Singh won gold in men’s triple jump:

Arpinder Singh from Punjab made a best jump of 16.77m in his third attempt and
won gold medal in the men’s triple jump event.This is India’s first men’s triple
jump gold medal in 48 years after Mohinder Singh Gill won it in 1970.
Arpinder has a personal best of 17.17 metres at the 2014 National Inter-State
Championships in Lucknow. He had finished fifth in the 2014 Asian Games.

Manjit Singh won gold in Men’s 800 Metres:

Manjit Singh from Haryana won gold medal in the men’s 800 metres event by
finishing the race in 1:46.15 minutes & Jinson Johnson won silver Medal in
same event.
Earlier,Indian Athlete’s Ranjit Singh and Kulwant Singh won Gold and Silver
in this Event during 1951 Asiad Games which is known as the First Asian
Game,held in NewDelhi(India).

Swapna Barman Won a Landmark Gold in Women’s Heptathlon:

Swapna Barman of West Bengal won gold medal in the women’s heptathlon
event with a score of 6026 points. She has crossed the landmark of 6000 points
mark in Heptathlon.
She has won the first gold medal for India in the women’s heptathlon event
at the Asian Games.

Jinson Johnson won gold in Men’s 1500 Metres:

Jinson Johnson from Kerala won gold medal in the men’s 1500m event. He finished
in 3:44.72 sec. Manjit Singh finished in fourth position with a timing of 3:46.57sec.

In 2018 Commonwealth Games he finished fifth setting a new national record in

the 1500 metres race by breaking 23 year old record of Bahadur Prasad.

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Women’s 4x400m Relay Team Wins Gold

India’s 4x400m women’s relay team won its 5th consecutive gold medal in the Asian Games. India has been
winning gold medal in this event since 2002 Asian Games.

The team comprised: Hima Das, M R Poovamma, Saritaben Gayakwad and Vismaya Velluva Koroth. They
finished the event in 3 minute and 28.72 seconds.

MEDAL NAME EVENT IMP.Note

Gold Tejinder Pal Singh Shot put
Toor
Gold Neeraj Chopra Javelin-thrower
Gold Manjit Singh Men’s 800 M
Gold Arpinder Singh Men’s triple jump This is India’s first men’s triple jump gold
medal in 48 years after Mohinder Singh Gill
won it in 1970.
Gold Swapna Barman Heptathlon First gold medal for India in the women’s
heptathlon at the Asian Games
Gold Jinson Johnson Men’s 1500m
Gold Hima Das, M R Women’s 5th consecutive gold medal for India in
Poovamma, Saritaben 4x400m Relay 4x400m women’s team relay at the Asian
Gayakwad and Team Games
Vismaya Velluva
Koroth
Silver Hima Das Womens 400 M Hima from Assam nicknamed the Dhing
Express by the media. She became the first
Indian to win a Gold in a track event at
the IAAF World U20 Championships.
Silver Muhammad Anas Men’s 400 M
Yahiya
Silver Dutee Chand Women’s 100m Country’s first medal in 20 years in this
dash event,Previous bronze won by Rachita Mistry
in 1998 Asian Games.
Silver Sudha Singh Women’s 3000m
Steeplechase
Silver Dharun Ayyasamy 400m hurdles Ayyasamy clocked 48.96 seconds to shatter
his own national record
Silver Neena Varakil Women’s long
jump
Silver Jinson Johnson Men’s 800 M
Silver Dutee Chand Women’s 200M
Silver Muhammed Anas, M.R. 4x400m Mixed
Poovamma, Hima Das Relay
and Arokia Rajiv.
Silver Muhammed Kunhu, Men’s 4X400
Dharun Ayyasamy, metre relay Team
Muhammed Anas and
Rajiv Arokia
Bronze Chitra Unnikrishnan Women’s 1500m
Bronze Seema Punia Discuss throw

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Kabaddi

Men’s kabaddi team

MEDAL COUNTRY IMP.Note
Gold Iran
Silver South Korea
Bronze India & Pakistan Ajay Thakur is India Mens Kabbadi Team Captain.
India lost to Iran in Semi Final match.

Women’s kabaddi team

MEDAL COUNTRY IMP.Note
Gold Iran
Silver India Payal Chaudhari is India Womens Team Captain
Bronze Thailand & Chinese
Taipei

*Indian kabaddi lost gold medal for the first time since the kabbadi sport was introduced at the Asian
Games in 1990. India had won gold medal seven times continuosly from 1990 to 2014. India always
dominated the Kabbadi event by winning highest number of 9 gold medals including 7 in men’s and 2 in
women’s category.

Wushu

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Bronze Santhosh Kumar Men’s Sanda 56Kg Category
Bronze Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh Men’s Sanda 60Kg Category
Bronze Narender Grewal Men’s Sanda 65Kg Category
Bronze Roshibina Devi Naorem Women’s sanda 60Kg Category

Rowing

India’s Men Rowers team won Gold in Men’s Quadruple Sculls event

Indian men team rowers Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash and
Sukhmeet Singh won gold medal in men’s quadruple sculls with the
timing 6:17.13. Indonesia (6:20.58) and Thailand (6:22.41) were placed
second and third respectively.

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Gold Indian team of Sawaran Singh, Dattu, Om Quadruple sculls rowing
Prakash and Sukhmeet
Bronze Rowers Rohit Kumar, Bhagwan Singh Double Sculls
Bronze Dushyant Chauhan Men’s Lightweight Single Sculls

Squash

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Silver Dipika Pallikal,Joshna Chinappa, Women’s squash team
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Tanvi Khanna and Sunayna Kuruvilla

Bronze Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinappa women’s singles squash
Bronze Saurav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Singh, Ramit Tandon Men’s squash team
and Mahesh Mangaonkar
Bronze Saurav Ghosal Men’s Singles Squash

Tennis

Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won gold medal for Men’s doubles in Lawn Tennis

Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won gold medal of men’s doubles in Lawn
Tennis at the Asian Games 2018 by defeating Aleksander Bublik and Denis
Yevseyev of Kazakhstan 6-3 6-4.

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Gold Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan Men’s Doubles
Bronze Prajnesh Prabhakaran Men’s Singles Tennis
Bronze Ankita Raina Women’s Tennis Singles

Badminton

MEDAL NAME EVENT IMP.Note

Silver P.V.Sindhu Women’s became First female Indian shuttler reached final
single and won silver medal at Asian games after 36
years
Bronze Saina Nehwal Women’s becomes first female Indian shuttler to bag medal
single at Asian Games in individual quadrennial event
after 36 years and also first female Indian won
bronze in women’s single.

Bridge

Pranab Bardhan and Shibnath Sarkar win gold in men’s Pair Bridge event

Pranab Bardhan and Shibnath Sarkar pair won gold medal in the men’s
Pair Bridge event. They topped the points table in the men’s Pair Bridge
event with 384 points. They both hail from Howrah, West Bengal.

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Gold Pranab Bardhan and Shibnath Sarkar Men’s Pair Bridge event
Bronze Jaggy Shivdasani, Rajeshwar Tewari, Ajay Khare, Raju Tolani, Men’s Team Bridge event
Debabrata Majumder and Sumit Mukherjee.
Bronze Kiran Nadar, Hema Deora, Himani Khandelwal, Bachiraji Mixed Team Bridge event
Satyanarayana, Gopinath Manna and Rajeev Khandelwal.

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Table Tennis

MEDAL NAME EVENT IMP.Note

Bronze G.Sathiyan, Achanta Men’s team This is the first time India has won a
Sharath Kamal and medal in table tennis in the Asian
A Amalraj Games, since tables tennis was
introduced in Asian Games in 1958.

Bronze Sharath Kamal and Mixed doubles Manika Batra has became the first
Manika Batra Indian woman to win a medal in
table tennis in the Asian Games.

Archery

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Silver Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan and Men’s Compound Archery Team
Aman Saini

Silver Muskan Kirar, Madhumita Kumari and Women’s Compound Archery

Jyothi Surekha Vennam Team

Kurash

Kurash is a form of wrestling indigenous to central Asia. It has made its debut at the Asian Games 2018.

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Silver Pincky Balhara Women’s 52kg category Kurash
Bronze Malaprabha Women’s 52kg category Kurash
Jadhav

Sailing

MEDAL NAME EVENT

Silver Varsha Gautham and Sweta Shervegar 49er FX Women’s Sailing
Bronze Harshita Tomar Open Laser 4.7 Sailing
Bronze Varun Thakkar Ashok and Chengappa 49er men’s sailing
Ganapathy Kelapanda

Boxing

Amit Panghal wins gold medal in Men’s 49kg Boxing

Amit Panghal from Punjab defeated reigning Olympic Champion Hasanboy Dusmatov
from Uzbekistan 3-2 and won gold medal in Men’s 49kg Boxing.

He is the eighth Indian boxer to win a gold medal at the Asian Games. He is 22
years old and hails from Haryana. This is his first appearance in the Asian Games.

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MEDAL NAME EVENT IMP.Note

Gold Amit Panghal Men’s 49kg
Bronze Vikas Krishan Men’s Middle He became the first Indian boxer to win 3 medals in
Yadav 75 kg the Asian Games. He had won gold medal in the 60 kg
category in 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and
bronze medal in middleweight category at 2014 Asian
Games in Incheon.He was pulled out from the semi-
final due to his eye injury

Hockey

MEDAL EVENT IMP. POINTS

Silver Women’s hockey team
Bronze Men’s hockey team India scored nearly a goal every two minutes against Hong
Kong China 26-0 in Pool B Match,as they broke an 86-year-old
record, surpassing their 24-1 victory over the United States at
the 1932 Olympics.

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