Level 1 — Absolute Beginner
India won more gold medals at the Asian Games on Friday.
Lovlina Borgohain won the women's 75 kg boxing final. She is a boxer.
Three Indian archers also won gold. They are Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti.
The Games are in Aichi and Nagoya, in Japan.
- gold
- first place prize
- medal
- a prize you wear on a ribbon
- boxer
- a person who fights in a ring with gloves
- final
- the last match to decide the winner
- archer
- a person who shoots arrows
- team
- a group that plays together
- Games
- a big sports event
- win
- to come first
Level 2 — Elementary
India had a golden Friday at the Asian Games in Aichi and Nagoya, Japan.
Lovlina Borgohain won gold in the women's 75 kg boxing final.
In archery, Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti won the women's recurve team gold medal.
Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara also won silver in the recurve mixed team event, and Nethra Kumanan took bronze in women's dinghy sailing.
- recurve
- a type of bow used in Olympic archery
- silver
- second place prize
- bronze
- third place prize
- sailing
- traveling on water with a boat and wind
- dinghy
- a small boat
- mixed
- with both men and women
- event
- one competition in a big sports meeting
- compete
- to try to win against others
Level 3 — Intermediate
India collected a handful of medals at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Friday, led by a gold for Lovlina Borgohain in the women's 75 kg boxing final.
In archery, Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti won the women's recurve team gold, while Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara were beaten into second place in the recurve mixed team final and took silver.
Nethra Kumanan added a bronze in the women's dinghy sailing, rounding out a productive day for the Indian squad.
Elsewhere in the tournament, football featured a fixture between China and South Korea, a reminder of how many sports are packed into the continental Games.
- collect
- to gather or win
- recurve
- a bow with curved tips, used in Olympic archery
- squad
- a team selected to represent a country
- productive
- achieving a lot
- round out
- to complete
- fixture
- a scheduled sports match
- continental
- covering a whole continent
- tournament
- a series of contests
Level 4 — Advanced
Lovlina Borgohain's gold in the women's 75 kg boxing final headlined an eventful Friday for India at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, a day that also brought team gold in women's recurve archery and further podium finishes.
Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti combined to win the women's recurve team title. Mohod then partnered Dhiraj Bommadevara in the mixed team event, where the pair finished with silver after falling short in the final.
Nethra Kumanan completed the haul with bronze in women's dinghy sailing, proving that India's medal hopes in Japan are not confined to the sports where the country has traditionally excelled.
The multi sport format means that spectators can follow a boxing ring, a shooting range and a sailing course in a single day, which is much of the Games' charm.
- headline
- to be the most prominent part of an event
- eventful
- full of notable happenings
- podium
- the stand where medallists receive prizes
- combine
- to join together to achieve something
- haul
- a total collected
- confined
- limited to a particular area
- excel
- to be exceptionally good at something
- spectator
- a person watching an event
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