Indian team won its third gold when the mixed team secured first position in the equestrian dressage at the Asian Games 2023 on Tuesday.
The equestrian team ended a 41-year long wait to win a gold medal in this event.
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This was India’s 14th medal at the games, which puts them behind Hong Kong in the medal’s tally.
Earlier, India won its 12th medal when the 17-year-old Neha Thakur confirmed the second position to win a silver in the Girl’s Dinghy ILCA 4 event in Sailing.
India then confirmed its 13th medal and second in sailing after Eabad Ali won the bronze medal in the Men’s Windsurfer RS - X.
Ali finished third behind Korea’s Wonwoo Cho and Thailand’s Natthaphong Phonoppharat with a net score of 52.
Neha Thakur with her coach Narendra Singh Rajput. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Earlier, team India narrowly missed its first medal of September 26 when the duo of Divyansh Singh Panwar and Ramita failed to go past Korea, losing 18-16 in the bronze-medal match of the 10m air rifle mixed team event.
The medal tally stands at three gold, four silver and seven bronze to a total of 14 medals, which kept India at the sixth position in the medal table.
China continued to dominate the medals tally with a whopping 53 gold medals which formed a majority of its overall tally of 95.
Here are the medal standings:
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | People's Republic of China | 53 | 29 | 13 | 95 |
| 2 | Republic of Korea | 14 | 16 | 19 | 49 |
| 3 | Japan | 8 | 20 | 19 | 47 |
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 5 | 6 | 11 | 22 |
| 5 | Hong Kong, China | 5 | 4 | 10 | 19 |
| 6 | India | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | Indonesia | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 10 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
*Table last updated at 8:00 PM IST.
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