{
  "id": 11670792,
  "title": "Not Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yuki Kurihara, Japan’s 11-Year-Old E-Sports Prodigy, Is Asian Games’ Youngest Gold Medalist",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/not-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-yuki-kurihara-japans-11-year-old-e-sports",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-03T10:41:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/sports/not-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-yuki-kurihara-japans-11-year-old-e-sports-prodigy-is-asian-games-youngest-gold-medalist"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Japan's 11-year-old e-sports prodigy, Yuki Kurihara, has broken the record for the youngest gold medalist at the Asian Games. Kurihara won the Puyo Puyo Champions esports event at the Aichi-Nagoya Games, defeating South Korea's Kang Dongshin 10-2 in the final. At just 11 years old, Kurihara made history by defeating opponents more than twice his age. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, India's teenage cricket player, is now the youngest Indian to win an individual Asian Games gold medal at 15 years, 6 months, and 6 days.",
  "summary": "Team India clinched yet another gold medal as the Shreyas Iyer-led side defeated rivals Pakistan in the men's cricket final. The victory saw India's teenage prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi step on the podium to receive the gold medal from ICC chairman Jay Shah. At 15, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is amongst the youngest to have gotten a gold medal in the Asian Games. The left-hander is known for breaking…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}