Guangzhou: Ashwini Chidananda and Joseph Abraham won gold medals in the women's and men's 400m hurdles race while Vikas Krishan won India's first boxing gold by beating Hu Qing of China in the 60 kg finals.
With a personal best timing of 56.15 seconds, Ashwini clinched the third gold medal for India from the track and field event of the Asian Games at the Aoti Main Stadium.
The silver went to China's Wang Xing with a timing of 56.76 secs and Japan's Satomi Kubokokura got the bronze with a timing of 56.83 secs.
In men's event Joseph Abraham clocked a season's best of 49.96sec to clinch the gold medal for India.
The 29-year-old Indian's effort was, however, still short of the national record of 49.51sec he set during the 2007 World Championships in Osaka.
The silver went to Saudi Arabia's Bandar Yahya Sharahili, who clocked 50.29sec. Japan's Naohiro Kawakita settled for the bronze medal with a timing of 50.37sec.
Meanwhile in boxing, Vikas pipped his Chinese opponent 5-4 to win India's third gold of the day in a fight that went right down to the wire.
Qing led in the early part of the match but Krishan fought back brilliantly even though he seemed to be in some discomfort during the match.
(With inputs from IANS)
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