November 21, 2010 7:30 PM

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Asian Games: India clinches three more gold today

India's Gold Medal haul in the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, has gone up to Five. Besides three Gold, India also added one Silver and Five Bronze medals to their kitty today, the ninth day of competitions. India's medal tally now stands at 5 Gold, 11 Silver and 17 Bronze. Ronjan Sodhi provided India's first gold medal from the shooting range by the winning the men's double trap event. Preeja Sridharan clinched the second Gold of the day, by winning the women's 10,000 metres race. India also bagged the Silver in the event, when Kavita Raut finished second in the race. The Third Gold for the country was won by Sudha Singh in women's 3000 metres steeplechase event. Earlier in the day, the trio of Ronjan Sodhi, Ashar Noria and Vikram Bhatnagar won the bronze in the double trap team shooting event. In a pioneering effort, the women's archery team comprising Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari and Rimil Buriuly won a bronze after losing a thrilling semi-final battle to World and Olympic champions South Korea which was decided by a shootout at the Aoti range. It is the Indian women's maiden Asian Games archery team medal. The Indian trio lost the tense semi-final shootout to the Koreans 26-29 after being level on points (221 each) in the four regulations sets. Later in the bronze medal play-off, the Indian women's three some subdued a strong challenge from the Chinese Taipei 218-217 to clinch a historic first team medal in the bow and arrow game in the Games' history.Later, the Indian wrestlers opened their campaign impressively with Ravinder Singh and Sunil Kumar Rana clinching bronze medals in their respective weight categories in the Greco-Roman style competition. The Indian hopes of a gold medal in the Asian Games women's singles tennis event were dashed when Sania Mirza settled for a bronze after losing to third seed Akgul manmuradova in the semifinals. Sania lost the long-drawn-out battle, that lasted two hours and 49 minutes, against the big-serving Uzbek rival 7-6, 3-6, 4-6 by committing a number of forehand errors to exit from the competition.

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