BEIJING: India’s Satyawan defeated Lin ChingJiu of Chinese Taipei to finish fifth in the 74kg freestyle category of the Asian ‘games a wrestling competitions here Wednesday.
The Indian outpointed his rival31 in the bout to end the event with 11 points,
Satywan had lost in the fourth round last night to Mongolian Ennbayar Lodoyn on points which dashed Indian hopes of a ‘medal in this weight category.
He defeated Nepal’s Nandlal Yadav in the first bout and lost the subsequent one to Japan’s Yoshihiko Hara.
Limba loses in Semifinals
The Indian challenge in the Asian games archery contest ended with Limba Ram losing in the semifinals of the men’s individual grand fita round,
The 18yrold archer from Rajasthan scored a total of 311 points from 36 arrows as the South Koreans continued on course for their golden target.
Limba Ram, the only Indian left in the fray, could not strike form which earned him a place with 322 points in the round of last 4, He scored just 67 points at 90 metres, 78 at 70m, 79 at 50m and 87 at 30m today.
Indian team in sight of medal
Indian archers struck form at the right moment to score 952 points in the men’s team grand fita round and move to within sight of a medal in the Asian games. Limba Ram, Shyam Lal and Dhul Chand Domar shot with greater accuracy than in the past few days to finish ahead of the ‘strong Japanese by 13 points, their form in the morning should see the Indians go into the final with confidence.
Olympic champions South Korea wit bowmen like Kim SunBin, Yang Chang Hoon and park JaePyo established a new world record in the semifinals with a score of 1004 points,
Their massive score over shadowed the ‘old mark set by the Soviet Union last year by 5 points,
China was just 8 points ahead of India which meant the fight for the silver and bronze should be between China, Japan and India.
The Indian trio, with hardly any wind scored 229 points over 90 metres. They had 234 points over 70 metres, 231 for 5¢ metres and 258 over 30 metres.
Each archer shot 9 arrows over each distance with the team getting 108 arrows
Veteran guard
Security forces who helped crush the pro-Democracy movement last year have been guarding the Asian games opening here.
Dozens of sentries at sporting venues and the Asian games village have been spotted wearing commemorative wrist watches given to men who took part in the crackdown in June last year.
The watch face shows the head of a helmeted soldier above the inscription: “Crushing of the counter revolutionary rebellion. Beijing June 1989.”
More than 30,000 policemen and an unspecified number of soldiers have been deployed in the capital to prevent violence or demonstrations during the games beginning on Sept 22.
Indian grapplers contribute silver, bronze
Indian grapplers contributed to the overs medal haul with a silver and a bronze in the Asian overall medal haul with a silver and bronze in the Asian games freestyle wrestling competitions here.
After Ombir Singh lost to South Korea world champion Kim Jong shin in the gol medal bout of the 48 kg class, Subas Verma trounced world number 2 Manabu Nakanish for the bronze medal in the 10 kg category.
‘Subash Verma dominated the Japanese champion scoring almost immediately al, the bout began. He later pinned down hi ‘opponent repeatedly to pick up as many « nine points,
Though the Japanese secured a penalt grip on Subash who strayed out of the ma the Indian grappler effortlessly escaped an scored heavily each minute to gain an invincible lead towards the end of the bot which he won 93.
India finish second,
PT Usha Bade farewell to the Asian gar stage with her third silver medal here, when she anchored the 4x 100m relay team to close finish behind the Chinese,
Zenia Ayrton, Ashwini Nachappa an¢ K. Saramma were other members of the team which clocked 44,99 seconds a shade Outside the national mark of 44.87 set by the silver medal winning team at the Asian meet last year.
The Chinese Quartet Huang Xiaoyan Tian Yumei, Wang Ping and Zhang Caihua, were timed 44.36 seconds for a new games mark. Thailand came in third
Article extracted from this publication >> October 12, 1990
