{"id":51677,"date":"2026-10-01T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=51677"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:21:23","slug":"how-india-won-a-bronze-medal-in-sailing-after-finishing-fourth-at-asian-games-asian-games-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=51677","title":{"rendered":"How India won a bronze medal in sailing after finishing fourth at Asian Games | Asian Games 2026 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134622097,imgsize-55975,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/harshita-tomar-shital-verma.jpg\" alt=\"How India won a bronze medal in sailing after finishing fourth at Asian Games\" title=\"Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma (Reuters Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma (Reuters Photo)\">Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma (Reuters Photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>India&#8217;s Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma initially finished fourth in the women&#8217;s skiff sailing event at the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/asian-games\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Asian Games<\/a> on Thursday. But they still ended up with a bronze medal after the Chinese pair that finished third was disqualified.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The Indian pair won the bronze at the Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor in Aichi, Japan, after China\u2019s Xiaoyu Hu and Yuyue Sun were disqualified.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Embed-0110-sds\" msid=\"134622078\" imgsize=\"38286\" resizemode=\"4\" width=\"\" title=\"Image credit: Asian Games 2026\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/imgsize-38286,msid-134622078\/embed-0110-sds.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Asian Games 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>India move up to third<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Japan finished at the top of the standings with 14 net points, while Hong Kong, China were second with 18 points.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>India finished the competition with 24 net points and 28 total points, initially placing fourth.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>China were third with 28 net points and 33 total points.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>However, the Chinese pair were disqualified, moving India up to third place and handing Tomar and Verma the bronze medal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Japan took gold, Hong Kong won silver and India were awarded bronze.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/asian-games-2026\/how-india-won-a-bronze-medal-in-sailing-after-finishing-fourth-at-asian-games\/articleshow\/134621996.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma (Reuters Photo) India&#8217;s Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma initially finished fourth in the women&#8217;s skiff sailing event at the Asian Games on Thursday. But they still ended up with a bronze medal after the Chinese pair that finished third was disqualified.The Indian pair won the bronze at the Kaiyoh Yacht&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_exclude_summary":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_summary":"India's Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma initially finished fourth in the women's skiff sailing event at the Asian Games on Thursday. But they still ended up with a bronze medal after the Chinese pair that finished third was disqualified.The Indian pair won the bronze at the Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor in Aichi, Japan, after China\u2019s Xiaoyu Hu and Yuyue Sun were disqualified. Japan finished at the top of the standings with 14 net points, while Hong Kong, China were second with 18 points.India finished the competition with 24 net points and 28 total points, initially placing fourth.China were third with 28 net points and 33 total points.However, the Chinese pair were disqualified, moving India up to third place and handing Tomar and Verma the bronze medal.Japan took gold, Hong Kong won silver and India were awarded bronze.","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_provider":"extractive","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_hash":"88612644142291fde9ffc7b5e46876df4cae93fe","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}