India won their third gold medal in the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Games on Tuesday, with the team comprising Hriday Chheda, Divyakriti Singh, Anush Agarwalla and Sudipti Hajela emerging triumphant in Equestrian Dressage.
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The victory for the quartet also helped deliver India’s first Asian Games Equestrian gold medal in 41 years. India had won five medals back in 1982 — three gold and a silver and bronze each.
Additionally, the victory on Tuesday is India’s first ever in team dressage. Raghubir Singh had finished on top of the podium in the individual eventing category in the 1982 Games that were held in New Delhi.
Raghubir would then go on to win team dressage bronze with Jitendarjit Singh Ahluwalia and Ghulam Mohammed Khan in the 1986 Games in Seoul.
India had won two gold medals on Monday, in men’s 10m air rifle team and women’s cricket respectively, and the Equestrian victory takes their medal tally to 12, which puts them at the sixth spot on the medal table.
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