Golf: Aditi Ashok T2 in round 1 individual standings
Tokyo Olympian Aditi Ashok is tied for second place in round 1 after scoring 67, -5 to par, in women’s individual golf at the Asian Games 2023. Pranavi Urs (71) and Avani Prashanth (72) are T17 and T21, respectively.
The Indian women’s golf team are ranked fifth after the first round with a score of 138. China, Japan and Thailand currently occupy the podium positions.
Naorem Roshibina Devi features on the Hangzhou 2023 podium
Indian wushu athlete Naorem Roshibina Devi won the women’s 60kg silver medal at the Asian Games 2023 today. China’s Wu Xiaowei clinched the gold medal while Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy and Shahrbano Mansouriyan Semiromi of the Islamic Republic of Iran settled for bronze medals.
Track cycling: David Beckham Elkatohchoongo loses in 1/16 final repechage
Indian cyclist David Beckham Elkatohchoongo did not win in the men’s sprint 1/16 final repechage races at the Asian Games 2023. He will feature in the 5th-8th place race today at 12:36 PM IST.
Meanwhile, Niraj Kumar did not finish in the men’s omnium cycling race at Hangzhou.
Table tennis: Manika Batra wins singles opener
Ace Indian table tennis player Manika Batra won 11-5, 11-4, 11-3, 11-2 against Nepal’s Nabita Shrestha in the women’s singles round of 32 match at the Asian Games 2023. Despite her mixed doubles defeat earlier today, Manika Batra looked in top form and made the singles pre-quarterfinal, which begins tomorrow.
Sreeja Akula, on the other hand, went down in four games against Songgyong Pyon from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the round of 32.
Shooting: Sarabjot Singh fourth in men’s 10m air pistol individual final
Indian shooters Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema failed to add to their medal tally in the men’s 10m air pistol individual final at the Asian Games 2023.
While Sarabjot finished fourth with a score of 199.0, Arjun scored 113.3 to rank eighth. The duo, along with Shiva Narwal, bagged the team gold medal at Hangzhou earlier today.
Vietnam’s Pham Quang Huy won gold, Wonho Lee of the Republic of Korea claimed silver and Uzbekistan’s Vladimir Svechnikov settled for bronze in the men’s 10m air pistol event.
Meanwhile, India finished seventh in the mixed skeet qualification round and did not make the cut for the final.
Swimming: Men’s 4x100m freestyle team set national record, through to final
Indian swimmers Tanish George Mathew, Vishal Grewal, Anand AS and Srihari Nataraj clocked 3:21.22, a national record time, in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats and advanced to the final. Team India will swim in the relay final today in Hangzhou at 6:18 PM IST.
Tanish, Srihari and Anand were also a part of the previous national record, a 3:23.72 at the 2019 Asian Age Group Championships.
The women’s 4x200m freestyle relay team also made the final after finishing eighth in the heats with a time of 8:39.64. They will swim for a medal at 6:36 PM IST today.
Indian men’s cricket team take off for Hangzhou
Led by Ruturaj Gaikwad, India will play the men’s cricket quarter-final on October 3. Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Arshdeep Singh and Ravi Bishnoi, too, will feature for the Indian men’s cricket team at the Asian Games 2023.
Earlier, India clinched the women’s cricket gold medal at Hangzhou after beating Sri Lanka in the final.
Click here to get the men’s cricket schedule, scores and results.
Track cycling: Triyasha Paul to race in 1/16 final repechage
India’s Triyasha Paul clocked 11.616 in the women’s sprint cycling qualifying and advanced to the 1/16 final at the Asian Games 2023. However, she lost against Mina Sato of Japan in the 1/16 heats and will now race in the repechage round.
Meanwhile, Mayuri Lute finished last in the same qualifying event, which ended her Hangzhou campaign.
Table tennis: G Sathiyan-Manika Batra ousted in round of 16
Indian mixed doubles pair Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra lost 3-2 against Singapore’s Zhe Yu Clarence and Jian Zeng in the round of 16 to crash out of the Asian Games 2023. The duo will feature in the singles category matches later today.
Harmeet Desai and Sreeja Akula, India’s second mixed doubles pair, also lost 3-0 in the same round against Thai pair Phakpoom and Orawan Paranang.
Shooting: Men’s 10m air pistol team cliches gold
Shooters Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiva Narwal shot a combined score of 1734 in the men’s 10m air pistol team final to win the first Indian gold medal of the day at the Asian Games 2023. China bagged the silver medal while Vietnam settled for bronze to complete the podium.
Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema also made the individual event final at Hangzhou, which will start at 9:00 AM IST today.
Swimming: Shivangi Sarma, Virdhawal Khade falter in heats
Indian swimmer Shivangi Sarma clocked 26.92 seconds in the women’s 50m freestyle heat 2 to finish seventh and 18th overall. The 20-year-old had also featured in the 100m freestyle and 4x100m freestyle relay, failing to bag a podium finish in either category.
Virdhawal Khade, meanwhile, finished seventh in the men’s 50m butterfly heat 5 with a time of 24.67. He was ranked 19th overall and did not make the final. The Republic of Korea’s Inchul Baek entered the final after clocking a Asian Games record time of 23.39.
The men’s 4x100m freestyle relay and women’s 4x200m freestyle relay teams will also swim soon at Hangzhou. Later, Aryan Nehra and Kushagra Rawat will compete in the men’s 800m freestyle fast heat, a medal event.
For India’s swimming results at the Asian Games 2023, click here.
Wushu: Naorem Roshibina Devi settles for silver
Indian wushu athlete Naorem Roshibina Devi, a bronze medallist at the 2018 Asian Games, lost the women’s 60kg gold medal match 2-0 against China’s Wu Xiaowei at the Asian Games 2023.
The 22-year-old Indian athlete, however, bagged the silver medal, equalling Sandhyarani Devi’s feat from the 2010 Asian Games at Guangzhou. Naorem Roshibina Devi had defeated Kazakhstan’s Aiman Karshyga and Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy in the previous rounds at Hangzhou.
Badminton: PV Sindhu leads women’s team to quarters
Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu, world No. 15, beat Mongolia’s 775th-ranked Myagmartseren Ganbaatar 21-2, 21-3 in the opening match of the India vs Mongolia women’s team badminton tie.
Ashmita Chaliha, a South Asian Games women’s singles champion, also won 21-2, 21-3 against Kherlen Darkhanbaatar in the second match to give India a 2-0 lead in the tie at Hangzhou.
In the third match, the 18-year-old Anupama Upadhyaya clinched a 21-0, 21-2 victory against Khulangoo Baatar as India won 3-0 in the round of 16.
PV Sindhu and Co. will take the court against Thailand tomorrow in the women’s team quarter-final at 6:30 AM IST.
ICYMI: India’s medal tally surged to 22
Indian shooters bagged seven medals – two gold, three silver and two bronze – on Wednesday while sailor Vishnu Saravanan also won a bronze medal, taking the medal tally to 22 at the Asian Games 2023.
India are currently the seventh-best nation at Hangzhou with five gold, seven silver and 10 bronze medals.
India’s shooting medallists Sift Kaur Samra (C) and Ashi Chouksey (R) at Hangzhou 2023.
(Hangzhou2022.cn)
Aditi Ashok leads golf charge; shooting, badminton on early agenda
Ace golfer Aditi Ashok has begun her Asian Games 2023 campaign today in the first round of the women’s individual and team events. Anirban Lahiri and Co. will play in the men’s events from 8:00 AM IST.
Starting at 6:30 AM IST, skeet double medal-winner Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, along with Ganemat Sekhon, will take aim in the mixed skeet event. The men’s 10m air pistol events will also kick off concurrently.
The India vs Mongolia women’s team badminton tie will start at 6:30 AM IST as well.
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PV Sindhu, a two-time Asian Games medallist, will take the court today. The 28-year-old Indian badminton ace will headline India’s push for a women’s team medal, which kicks off today.
Alongside Ashwini Ponnappa, PV Sindhu bagged the last women’s team Asian Games medal, a bronze in 2014 Incheon.
The men’s 10m air pistol and skeet team shooters will set their sights on increasing the medal tally. Hriday Chheda and Anush Agarwalla, meanwhile, can make it a double in the equestrian dressage event.
Naorem Roshibina Devi has an opportunity to win India’s first-ever wushu gold medal at the Asian Games. The 2018 Asian Games bronze medallist will contest in the women’s 60kg final on Thursday.
Led by Sunil Chhetri, the Indian men’s football team is set to play Saudi Arabia in the round of 16.
The Indian men’s hockey team, too, will play today against reigning champions Japan. Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni, who are assured a medal in tennis, will feature in the men’s doubles semi-final.
In boxing, Jaismine Lamboria, Deepak Bhoria and Nishant Dev will fight in their round of 16 bouts. Gymnast Pranati Nayak will showcase her skills in the women’s vault final.
Bridge, track cycling, golf, squash, swimming and table tennis will also see Indian players in the fray at Hangzhou.
Follow our live coverage as we track India’s progress on Day 5 in Hangzhou!
