Bridge Federation of India is proud to congratulate all medal winners at recently concluded Asia Cup Bridge Championship 2022 at Jakarta, Indonesia. Indian contingent won 5 medals (🥇- 2, 🥈- 1, 🥉- 2).
The participating nations in this fourth edition of Asia Cup were India, Indonesia, Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand.
The Indian senior team of Hemant Jalan, Badal Das, Kamal Mukherjee, Pranab Bardhan, Subrata Saha, and Sukamal Das, clinched the gold medal. The Indian team was led by a huge margin of 119-50 after two sessions against Japan, and the latter conceded defeat in the third session.
The Indian women’s team, Asha Sharma and Puja Batra won the gold medal in the pairs event, whereas Vasanti Shah and Bharati Dey won the bronze.
The Indian mixed team after defeating Chinese Taipei 118-97 entered the final but got defeated in the final to host Indonesia and settled for the silver medal. Kiran Nadar – B Satyanarayana, Himani – Rajeev Khandelwal, Bindiya Naidoo – Priya Ranjan Sinha represented the Indian mixed team.
Indian men’s team represented by Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwar Tewari, Debabrata Majumder, Keyzad Anklesaria, Jaggy Shivdasani, Sumit Mukherjee and K P Mathur (NPC) lost the semifinals to the eventual champion China 102-106 in the open team event but made a great came back and defeated Japan 132-85 in the bronze medal match.