75 years of independence: Iconic moments from Indian sports – Ashish Kumar wins Bronze at Asian Games 2010


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2010: Ashish Kumar gives India its first medals in gymnastics at Asian Games, CWG India’s most decorated gymnast is Ashish Kumar. He gained notoriety in 2010 after taking home two medals (a silver and a bronze) from the Commonwealth Games and a bronze from the Asian Games. In a competition of this stature, India had never won a gymnastics medal. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Ashish Kumar first made history by taking home the bronze medal in men’s floor exercise gymnastics. Ashish placed third in the individual apparatus men’s artistic category with a floor score of 14.475,...