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How Did India Earn 85 Medals at the Asian Games? 🏆

India won 85 medals at the Asian Games held in Japan.

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Key Points

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Total medals: 21 gold, 27 silver, 37 bronze.

First golds for women's recurve archery team.

Three gold medals in boxing.

First bronze in Sepak Takraw.

First gold in women's trap shooting and medals in soft tennis and mixed martial arts.

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The women's bow and arrow team got their first gold medals ever.

Indian boxers captured three gold medals in their sport.

India earned its first bronze medal in the sport Sepak Takraw.

New medals were also won in soft tennis, mixed martial arts, and women's trap shooting.

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10 words

medal

a prize for finishing first, second, or third

archery

shooting arrows at a target

recurve

a bow that curves outward at the ends

boxing

sport where two people wear gloves and punch a padded area

Sepak Takraw

game where players kick a rattan ball over a net

trap

shooting sport with moving clay targets

soft tennis

tennis played with softer balls

mixed martial arts

sport that combines many fighting styles

Greco-Roman wrestling

wrestling using only arms and upper body

milestone

a big first-time achievement

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