Asian Games Day 11: India's first athletics gold as women's 4x400m relay wins; tally past 50
The women's 4x400m relay won India's first athletics gold of these Games on Day 11. The medal tally is past 50. Outlets do not agree on the exact total.
India's women's 4x400m relay won gold on Day 11 of the Asian Games, and the medal tally moved past 50. Day 11 was Tuesday, 29 September. The team was Kiran Pahal, Poovamma Machettira, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj. Their time was 3:29.69. Bahrain took silver. China took bronze. The reports call this India's first athletics gold of these Games.
The same accounts call the relay India's sixth gold overall. On Tuesday night India was 10th on the medal table, with six golds. That rank and that gold count are what the Tuesday-night table carried. They are not a count taken after Wednesday morning's archery final.
Gulveer Singh added a bronze in the 5000m. The reports describe it as his third medal of these Games. The earlier two were silvers, in the 10,000m and the 1,500m. This wrap states the bronze and that place in his own tally. It does not add a time for the 5000m.
Neeru Dhanda won the women's trap individual gold on the same competition day. That is the one line this daily report carries. Her score, and any claim of an Asian record, are not here. Outlets did not agree on that tally wording, and the trap gold already has its own report.
The all-medal total is the point on which the outlets do not agree. Counts in the material used here run from 51 to 53. One of those counts still had a boxing bronze pending. Because the figures differ, this report does not choose one. It says the tally is past 50, and more than 50. It does not say 51, and it does not say 53. Rank and golds are stated. The full split into silver and bronze is not.
A line that Day 11 itself produced eight medals was set aside in the account this report follows, even where two papers agreed, and it is not used here. Nor is a claim that the relay is India's first and only track-and-field gold, or that the relay has dominated six of the last seven editions. Those sentences were one outlet's wording and conflicted with another description of the title. Prachi is named by her first name only. Surname spellings in the reports do not match.
Wednesday morning, which is Day 12, brought a separate result. India's women's compound archery team beat China for gold. The archers named with that result are Chikitha Taniparthi, Prithika Pradeep and Jyothi Surekha Vennam. This daily wrap does not give the score, and it does not say whether a record was equalled. That match has its own report. A seventh-gold count after the archery was also left out of this wrap: when it was checked, the tally pages had not yet moved off six golds.
What's next
Day 11, as reported, is the relay gold, Gulveer's 5000m bronze, Neeru Dhanda's trap gold, and a Tuesday-night table of 10th place and six golds, with the medal count past 50. The compound final is the Wednesday-morning update, and it is not folded into the Tuesday total.
Key facts
- Day 11 was Tuesday, 29 September. Kiran Pahal, Poovamma Machettira, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj won the women's 4x400m relay in 3:29.69. Bahrain took silver and China bronze.
- The reports call it India's first athletics gold of these Games, and the sixth gold overall.
- Gulveer Singh won 5000m bronze, his third medal of these Games, after silvers in the 10,000m and the 1,500m.
- Neeru Dhanda won women's trap gold. That result is reported here in one line.
- On Tuesday night India was 10th, with six golds. The all-medal total is stated only as past 50. Outlets range from 51 to 53.
- On Wednesday morning the women's compound archery team beat China for gold. The score and the record line are in the separate archery report.
What each side says
What the Day 11 reports agree
Sportstar, The Hindu carrying PTI, the Indian Express, the Times of India, Hindustan Times and Yonhap are the outlets named for this wrap. They agree on the relay gold and the time, Gulveer's 5000m bronze as a third medal, Neeru Dhanda's trap gold, and India in 10th place with six golds on Tuesday night.
What this wrap does not fix
An exact medal total. The outlets currently differ, from 51 to 53, including a note that one boxing bronze was still pending in one count. Only past 50 is stated. Prachi is given by first name because surname spellings differ.
Not confirmed
- A single medal total of 51 or of 53. The outlets differ, so only more than 50 is stated.
- Neeru Dhanda's score, or any Asian-record claim in the trap. Those lines conflict and are left to the separate trap report, which itself omitted them.
- That the relay is India's only track-and-field gold in the history of the Games, or that India has dominated six of the last seven editions. That wording was one paper's and was not used.
- A world-record line for the compound archery gold. This Day 11 account says only that the team beat China.