MAHENDRANAGAR, Oct 26: For 19-year-old Kalawati Panta of Pariphanta, Shuklaphanta Municipality-8, Kanchanpur district, the foray into the game of kabaddi began when she was a ninth grader at the local Dharma Janata Secondary School.

With about 12,000 athletes, this was the biggest Asian Games in history and had more competitors than the Olympics

KATHMANDU, Oct 7:  Nepali Karate player Arika Gurung has secured her spot in the finals in the ongoing 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, guaranteeing at least a silver medal.

KATHMANDU, Oct 6: Nepal has finally been successful to bag a medal in the ongoing 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Nepal received a bronze medal in women kabaddi.

KATHMANDU, Oct 4: Nepal has entered the semifinals of women's kabaddi under the 19th Asian Games. After entering the semi-finals, it is certain that Nepal will get at least one medal in Kabaddi in the 19th Asian Games.

KATHMANDU, Oct 4: India has defeated Nepal in the women's volleyball tournament under the 19th Asian Games (Asiad) underway in Hangzhou, China. The Nepali women's team lost the match to India 1-3.

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: In an intense clash at the Asian Games, India secured a victory against Nepal in men's cricket during the first quarter-final match held this morning.

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: In a remarkable display of skill and strategy at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, the Nepali eSports team has earned a spot in the semifinals of the Peace Alice Asian Games edition of Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile.

HANGZHOU (CHINA), Sept 29: The Nepali team playing the PUBG Mobile event entered the second stage in the PUBG Mobile's Peace Elite competition in the ongoing 19th Asian Games.

HANGZHOU, Sept 27:Nepal has registered a record win against Mongolia in its first match in the men's cricket tournament under the 19th Asian Games today.

HANGZHOU, China, Sept 27 : Hosts China won the first eSports gold medal in the 72-year history of the Asian Games on Tuesday as Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey issued another warning for next year's Paris Olympics.

HANGZHOU, China, Sept 26: Swimming sensation Qin Haiyang added another title to his name to inflate China's already bulging gold-medal haul on Monday at the Asian Games, while a nine-year-old skateboarder melted hearts.

HANGZHOU, China, Sept 24: China won the first gold medal of the Hangzhou Asian Games and then cleaned up in the swimming events on Sunday, breaking several records in the process.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: The 19th Asian Games (Asiad) is taking place at Hangzhou in China from Saturday. More than 12,500 people including organizers, sports committees, athletes and managers would be participating in the Asiad.

KASKI, Sept 7: Every day, Tilak Punmagar of Pokhara, a policeman, reaches and attends archery training at the archery ground in Pokhara Stadium. With his bow and arrows, he aims and shoots at a stationary circular target along with other four players.

KATHMANDU, Aug 23: Nepal has been placed in Group 'A' in men's rugby sevens in the upcoming 19th Asian Games. The Asian Games is scheduled to take place in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8 this year.

KATHMANDU, June 26: Men's rugby team has been announced to participate in 19th Asian Games scheduled in Hangzhou, China.

KATHMANDU, June 17: The final selection of the women's Kabaddi team for the 19th Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China has been completed.

NEW DELHI, May 6: The Asian Games scheduled to take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in September have been postponed until 2023 because of the COVID-19 situation, the governing Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Friday.

KATHMANDU, June 22: Hard work, dedication and perseverance are the three fundamentals that define Gaurika Singh, at 13 years and 255 days at the time the youngest participant in the Rio Olympics in 2016. Success for Gaurika, who is London-based, did not come overnight. She started swimming at age six and enrolled for professional training at nine. Swimming was initially for her an important life skill and good exercise before she started to move up in the swimming groups and entered competitions. She has now ignited Nepal's medal hopes in the Asian Games and the Olympics .

POKHARA, Aug 31: It has transpired that the Nepali paragliding players, who won the silver medal at the Asian Games -- Nepal's first and only medal in the sports jamboree so far -- had to bear the financial burden of all the equipment by themselves. Equipment for the two events, cross country and accuracy, cost the players almost Rs 1.4 million, which they managed through personal loans.

JAKARTA, Aug 30: Nepal’s Nabita Shrestha has presented a mixed result in women’s singles of table tennis as she lost in the second round at the 18th Asian Games played at the JI Expo Hall on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 28: Nepal won today's Men's Volleyball match held under the 18th Asian Games taking place in Indonesia.

JAKARTA, Aug 28: Two sets of twins stood on the podium with Asian Games medals around their necks after the final of women’s duet in synchronised swimming on Tuesday.

JAKARTA, Aug 28: Nepal became medal-less in taekwondo, boxing and karate as well, like in all other events, at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia. These are the three sports where the country has ever won medals at the Asian Games.

KATHMANDU, Aug 27: Nepal’s Tara Devi Pun set a new national record in the women’s weightlifting in 75-kg weight category at the ongoing 18th Asian Games held at JI Expo in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 26: Two Nepali athletics players reached Indonesia to participate in the ongoing 2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games have been deprived of joining the competition due to delayed registrations. Nepali sports office bearers failed to notice that whether the registrations of names of those players selected for the regional competition were made on time.

KATHMANDU, Aug 26: Nepal’s hope of winning its first medal at the 18th Asian Games were dashed as Rita Karki suffered a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Pakistan’s Nargis in the women's 68 kg weight category.  Karki lost the fight for bronze medal in karate played at the Jakarta Convention Center in Indonesia on Saturday.

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KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Nepal is playing against South Korea in the men's volleyball tournament under the 18th Asian Games today.

INDONESIA, Aug 24: Rikako Ikee is turning Jakarta's Asian Games pool into her own golden pond. Every time she dives into the water, she comes out with another medal.

JAKARTA, Aug 24: Nepal’s badminton team build on their success against Pakistan as they beat Mongolia in men’s doubles and Maldives in women’s singles to reach the Round of 16 in the 18th Asian Games on Thursday.

JAKARTA, Aug 22:One Indonesian couple went one step further and chose the moniker Abidah Asian Games for their baby girl - in honor of the sporting event taking place in their country.

JAKARTA, Aug 22: Taekwondo head coach Deepak Bista has blamed Nepal’s lack of preparations for failure to get any medal at the ongoing Asian Games.

KATHMANDU, Aug 20: Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)'s chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal today bade farewell to a table tennis team representing Nepal in the ongoing 18th Asian Games (Asiad) in Indonesia.

JAKARTA, Aug 20: Japan has sent home four players from their Asian Games basketball team for spending the night with women in a Jakarta hotel, the head of the delegation Yasuhiro Yamashita said on Monday.

JAKARTA, Aug 20: Nepal does not really hope to win a gold medal in the Asian Games. However, it has been participating in the Asian sports jamboree with a faint hope of getting a bronze medal or two in martial arts.