The document discusses India's performance at the 17th Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea in 2014. It provides details on the various sports India participated in and their medal tallies. India won a total of 64 medals - 15 gold, 19 silver and 30 bronze. Some highlights include India winning gold in men's hockey and kabaddi. MC Mary Kom won the only boxing gold. Yogeshwar Dutt and Bajrang won gold and silver in wrestling. India also won gold in women's kabaddi, 4x400m relay and mixed doubles tennis. The document concludes by stating that with India's large population, it has potential to perform well in all sports.

5.  The Asian Games is the most prestigious event of Asia organised by the
Olympic Council of Asia .
 The Asian Games are held every four years, with the 17th edition held in
Incheon, South Korea this year.
 The inaugural Asian Games took place in New Delhi, India, in
1951 with 11 countries competing in six sports. Whereas the
16th Asian Games held in China, in 2010 featured 45
countries and regions competing in 42 sports,
highlighting the growth of the Olympic Movement in Asia
 The games reflect the diverse sporting culture of the continent such as
sepaktakraw (South East Asia), kabaddi (South Asia) and
wushu (East Asia).

7.  Sardar Singh,India’s men hockey team’s captain was
India's flag bearer at Asiad opening on
19th september,2014 at Incheon , South Korea

8.  Athletics
 Tennis
 Boxing
 Kabaddi
 Swimming
 water polo
 Weightlifting
 Sailing
 squash
 Wushu
 Archery
 Football
 Rowing
 Cycling
 Volleyball
 Badminton
 Judo
 Canoeing
 Gymnastics
 taekwondo
 Hockey
 Shooting
 Cue sports
 Wrestling
 Golf
 Equestrian
 Chess
 Diving

9. BOXING
MC Mary Kom
won her first Asian
Games gold medal
inthe 48-51kg
divisionat
Incheon.This was
India's onlyboxing
gold in the Games.

10. Boxer Vikas Krishan got a bronze after
losing to Kazakhstan in middle (75kg)
semifinal.

11. Sarita devi won
a bronze medal
in light
weighted
(60kg)division
but refused to
accept it ,as she
found it an
unfair decision.

12.  After losing her controversial semifinal bout to south
korea’s Jina Park, Indian boxer L Sarita Devi stunned
officials and spectators by refusing to accept the bronze
medal, which was then in the custody of organizers.
 “Not one Indian official came to us and consoled or even
spoke to us ”, said sarita in agony
 According to Amateur International Boxing Association
rules, returning medal counts as serious indiscipline and
she has been given a serious warning on not to repeat it
again .
 Later she had to accept her bronze medal.

13. Did YOU KNOW?
 After Sarita's controversial loss,
a Mongolian boxer lost to a South Korean despite
appearing to be the better boxer of the two. NDTV's
Suprita Das reported that a few water bottles were
thrown at the Korean boxer after their bout by the
spectators.
 Devendro laishram,an indian boxer and sarita’s
cousin who lost in the quarter finals also felt that
koreans were biased!

14. Thus ,unfortunately

15. wrestling
 Indian
wrestler Yogeshwar
Dutt bagged out a
gold in the men's 65
kg freestyle wrestling
by defeating
Tajikistan's
Zalimkhan Yusupov .
Hurrey moment!!!!!

16.  Bajrang bagged a silver
medal after losing the
men's freestyle 61kg
final match with 1-3
score to Iran.
His compatriot Narsingh
Pancham Yadav settled
for a bronze by
defeating Japan by 7-9
in 74kg freestyle.

17. DID YOU KNOW?
 The 20 year old wrestler from Jhajjar in Haryana
won silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow.
 The five feet five inch Bajrang also won bronze in
the 2013 World Wrestling Championships

18. tennis
 Sania Mirza and
Saketh Myneni
defeated Chinese
Taipei top seeds
Hsien Yin Peng-
Hao Ching Chan
by 6-4, 6-3 to win
mixed doubles
gold.
Hurreyy moment!!!!!!!!

19. The Indian pair of
Sanam Singh and
Saketh Myneni won
the silver medal after
they lost to South
Korea in the men’s
doubles tennis final.

20. ATHLETICS
 Athletics - Seema
Punia, who won gold in
discus throw, threw the
disc to 61.03 metres in
her fourth attempt to get
the better of her Chinese
rivals, who finished
second and third.
 This has been her first
Asian Games medal.
Hurreyyy moment!!!

21. Hurreyyy moment!!!!
Indian women
4x400m relay
team also
bagged a gold
for the country.

22.  Vikas Shive Gowda won
silver in men's discus
throw. He threw the disc
to 62.58 metres in his
second attempt. Iran's
bagged the gold.
 Gowda had won a gold
in Glasgow
Commonwealth
Games.

23.  Tintu Lukka won silver
in women's 800m with a
timing of 1:59.19 - her
personal best.
 Lukka was leading from
the front but lost out on
gold in the last 50
metres.
 She is coached by PT
Usha.

24.  Manju Bala's
bronze had been
upgraded to silver
in the women's
hammer throw
after the gold
medal winner
tested positive.

25.  Orchatteri Puthiya
Jaisha won athletics
bronze in women's
1500m .
 She also finished fourth
in women's 8000m .
 Jaisha is representing
India in the Asian Games
for the third time.

26.  India’s Naveen
Kumar won the
bronze medal in
the men’s 3000m
steeplechase with
a personal best
timing.

27. Annu Rani won
bronze in
women's javelin
throw. 59.53m
was her best in
the first
attempt.

28.  Inderjeet
Singh won
bronze in
men's shot
put. His best
attempt was
19.63m.

29. Sailing
Varsha and
Aishwarya won
bronze in
women's two
person dinghy
event.
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30. DID YOU KNOW?
 At 16, Varsha is one of the youngest
members of the Indian contingent at
Incheon.
 Indian men and women hired their
boats in South Korea. This shows that
less known sports suffer in India.

31. kabaddi
GOLD
MEDAL
FOR INDIA
IN MEN’S
KABADDI !
Hurrey moment !!!!!

32. Hurrey moment!!!!
 GOLD
MEDAL! India
defeated Iran 31-21
to win gold in
women's kabaddi.
 This was India's
10th gold in
Incheon.

33. DID YOU KNOW?
Kabaddi is believed to have
originated in 16th century
Maharashtra.
It received international
exposure for the first time when
it was included in the Berlin
Olympics in 1936.

34. HOCKEY
India defeated
Pakistan in
men’s hockey
with 4-2 on
penalties to win
their first
hockey gold
since 1998 .

35. Indian women's
hockey team
have also
returned with a
creditable
bronze from the
17th Asian
Games .

36. Congratulations!
With this India books a direct ticket to
2016 Summer Rio
Olympics.

37. INDIA bagged 8th position in
the 17th Asian games!

38. CONCLUSION!
Although ,INDIA played well in
some of the sports which it had
always been good at, with a
population of 1.21 billion it can
really do well in all the other sports
as well where it is lagging behind!

39. The honourable PM’s word
 I have been closely following India's
progress at the Asian Games & I
congratulate every medal winner. You
make India very proud!
— Narendra Modi