Neha powered India to the first medal of the day when she finished second in girl’s dinghy ILCA-4 event.
Ningbo (China), Neha Thakur, 17, won a silver medal while Eabad Ali claimed bronze as India bagged two medals in sailing at the Asian Games here on Tuesday, Sept26, a PTI report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
Neha powered India to the first medal of the day when she finished second in girl’s dinghy ILCA-4 event.
India’s second medal came in the men’s windsurfer RS:X event, where Ali, with a net score of 52 points, came third behind Natthaphong Phonoppharat of Thailand and gold medallist Wonwoo Cho of South Korea.
In a 14-race event, Ali’s worst race was second and third where he did not finish as seven points were deducted from his total 59 points. In the end, there was a big 23-point gap between Ali and the silver medallist.
A rising sailor from National Sailing School in Bhopal, Neha finished with a total of 32 points but her net score of 27 helped her earn the second spot behind gold medallist Noppassorn Khunboonjan of Thailand.
Singapore’s Kiera Marie Carlyle settled for bronze with a net score of 28.
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