Asian Games Day 7 Medals Tally, Results, Full Scores: China Continue to Dominate, India at 8th Position After Tajinderpal Singh’s Gold in Men’s Shot Put

Asian Games 2018: India are currently at the 10th spot in the medals tally dominated by China. India have till now won 4 Gold, 4 Silver and 10 Bronze medals.

Asian Games 2018 Day 7: Tajinderpal Singh Toor shattered the Games record in men’s shot put to open India’s medal account in athletics in the Asian Games on Sautrday. The 23-year-old Toor sent the iron ball to a national record distance of 20.75m to win his maiden Asian Games medal on the opening day of the athletics competition.

He bettered the earlier national record of 20.69m set by Om Prakash Karhana in 2012. Toor was the favourite to win the gold as he had entered the event as season leader (20.24m). The winning throw came in the fifth attempt though he was leading the field with his first throw of 19.96m.

India are currently at the 8th spot in the medals tally dominated by China. India have till now won 7 gold, 5 silver and 17 bronze medals.

Sr. No.	Countries	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	72	51	30	153
2	Japan	34	31	44	109
3	Republic of Korea	25	26	33	84
4	IR Iran	14	11	9	34
5	Indonesia	10	12	16	38
6	DPR Korea	10	5	6	21
7	Thailand	8	8	24	40
8	India	7	5	17	29
9	Chinese Taipei	6	11	13	30
10	Uzbekistan	5	10	7	22
11	Kazakhstan	4	7	27	38
12	United Arab Emirates	3	4	1	8
13	Mongolia	3	2	5	10
14	Hong Kong, China	2	6	13	21
15	Kyrgyzstan	2	4	5	11
16	Singapore	2	2	6	10
17	Cambodia	2	0	1	3
18	Vietnam	1	7	9	17
19	Malaysia	1	4	2	7
20	Macau, China	1	2	0	3
21	Jordan	1	1	5	7
22	Lebanon	1	1	2	4
23	Philippines	1	0	7	8
24	Iraq	1	0	0	1
25	Bahrain	0	2	0	2
26	Turkmenistan	0	1	2	3
27	Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	0	1	1	2
28	Qatar	0	1	1	2
29	Lao PDR	0	1	0	1
30	Myanmar	0	0	2	2
31	Pakistan	0	0	2	2
32	Afghanistan	0	0	1	1
33	Korea	0	0	1	1
–	Total	216	216	292	724