‘Your success is not only yours’: PM Modi meets Asian Games medal-winners, lauds India’s sporting achievements

Present on the occasion had been the whole males’s T20 staff, led by Shreyas Iyer, which performed the fourth T20I towards West Indies on Wednesday night and is scheduled to play the fifth and closing match towards them in Bengaluru on Saturday, together with the ladies’s staff, which is because of face Zimbabwe in a T20I in Raipur on Friday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met India’s Asian Games medal-winners on the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi on Thursday.The athletes introduced the PM with memorabilia, together with signed jerseys and a bow from 17-year-old archery sensation Kumkum Mohod.PM Modi posed for images with the contingent, which was accompanied by senior officers from numerous sports activities our bodies, together with International Cricket Council chairman Jay Shah.“You have made 140 crore Indians proud. The greatest success is to make the tri-colour fly excessive. That’s why your success is not only yours however it belongs to crores of our countrymen. I congratulate you on behalf of the whole nation,” the PM stated in his handle to the medal winners.India received 85 medals on the Games, together with 21 gold, fewer than the 106 medals it secured on the earlier version in Hangzhou. However, the nation’s debutants made a powerful contribution, profitable 41 medals.“I particularly need to congratulate our girls athletes, they contributed 38 medals to our tally and 11 of these medals had been gold,” Modi stated, whereas praising the cricket and hockey groups, in addition to the archers who received 5 gold medals.“These medals will not be merely numbers; they characterize a robust image of a New India. Today, India is profitable medals even in sports activities wherein we had by no means received a medal earlier than within the historical past of the Asian Games. In combined martial arts, comfortable tennis, and sure crusing occasions, our athletes have created historical past by profitable medals for the primary time. Friends, now we should attain even better heights in sports activities,” the Prime Minister added.“This time, the Asian Games have been memorable for us in some ways. Both our males’s and girls’s hockey groups are current right here. Both groups received gold medals this time. And particularly our girls’s hockey staff—you’ve gotten ended a protracted wait of 44 years by profitable gold. In cricket, each our groups received medals for the second consecutive time. Not solely that, in addition they equalled their very own information. In kabaddi, too, each our males’s and girls’s groups received gold medals. Similarly, we received 5 gold medals in archery—and the place there’s a ‘panch’ (5), there’s God’s blessing. There had been excellent performances in taking pictures, main successes in boxing and wrestling, and new information set by our athletes. Weightlifting noticed a medal after 28 years. And for the primary time since 1982, India achieved success within the marathon. This is really a really gratifying achievement,” PM Modi stated.Harmanpreet Kaur, who led the ladies’s cricket staff to gold on the Asian Games earlier than stepping down as captain a couple of days in the past, was additionally current on the occasion. She introduced Modi with a jersey signed by the medal-winning staff. Her successor, Smriti Mandhana, additionally posed for images with the PM.Golfer Pranavi Urs introduced Modi along with her glove and a golf ball in a body.