Asian Games: India add eight medals on eventful day

The Indian women’s hockey team beat Malaysia 6-0 in a one-sided encounter. After that, Kiran Baliyan became the first women’s shot putter to win a medal at the Asian Games after 1951. She had a best throw of 17.36m.

Earlier, Indian shooters added five medals to India’s rich haul in shooting. Aishwary Pratap Singh clinched silver in the Men’s 50m Rifle 3 positions. Earlier, Palak and Esha Singh bagged the gold and silver respectively in Women’s 10m Air Pistol individual event. Aishwary Pratap Singh also won gold in the team event along with Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran with a world record. While Women’s 10m pistol team clinched silver.

There were also two more medals for India. In Tennis, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni settled for silver after losing the final. Women;s squash team won the bronze after losing the semifinal against Hong Kong.

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Asian Games – 29th September fixtures

Golf

Round 1 – Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Shiv Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi, Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs – 4 am IST

Athletics – Asian Games

20 km racewalk

Men

Sandeep Kumar – 5th with a time of 1:27:33

Vikash Singh – Disqualified

Women

Priyanka – 5th with a time of 1:43.07

400m – Heats

Women

Aishwarya Kailash Mishra, Himanshi Malik – 4.30 PM

Men

Santhosh Kumar, Yashas Palaksha – 4.55 PM

Hammer Throw – Final

Tanya Choudhary, Rachna Kumari – 4.40 PM

Shotput – Final

Women

Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur – 6.15 PM

Badminton – Asian Games

Men’s Team event – Quarterfinal

India vs Nepal – in progress

Women’s Team event – Quarterfinal

India LOST TO Thailand – 0-3

Shooting

50m Rifle-3 Positions – Team event

Men: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale, Akhil Sheoran – 1769 points – GOLD MEDAL

50m Rifle-3 Positions – FINAL

Swapnil Kusale – 438.9 – 4th Place

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar – 459.7 – SILVER MEDAL

10m Air Pistol – Qualification

Women: Divya TS, Esha Singh, Palak – 1731 – SILVER MEDAL

10m Air Pistol – FINAL

Palak – 242.1 – GOLD

Esha Singh – 239.7 – SILVER

Tennis

Men’s Doubles Final

Ramkumar Ramanathan/Saketh Myneni LOST TO Yu-hsiou Hsu/Jason Jung – 4-6, 4-6

Mixed Doubles Semifinal

Rohan Bopanna/Rutuja Bhosale BEAT Hao-ching Chan/Yu-hsiou Hsu – 6-1, 3-6, 10-4

Swimming – Asian Games

Women – 50m Butterfly Heats

Nina Venkatesh – 7.30 AM

Women – 800m Freestyle

Vritti Agarwal – 7.52 AM

Men – 200m Backstroke – Heats

Srihari Nataraj, Advait Page – 8.22 AM

Men – 400m Freestyle

Aryan Nehra, Kushagra Rawat – 8.32 AM

Men – 200m Butterfly

Aneesh Gowda, Sajan Prakash – 9.00 AM

Table Tennis

Women’s Singles – Round of 16

Manika Batra BEAT Suthasini Sawettabut – 11-7, 6-11, 12-10, 11-13, 12-10, 11-6

Men’s Doubles – Round of 16

Manush Shah/Manav Thakkar BEAT Koen Pang/Izaac Quek – 3-11, 11-9, 11-6, 5-11, 11-8

Sharath Kamal/G Sathiyan LOST TO Zhendong Fan/Chuqin Wang – 5-11, 4-11, 7-11

Women’s Doubles

Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale LOST TO Miwa Harimoto/Miyuu Kihara – 3-11, 5-11, 8-11

Ayhika Mukherjee/Sutirtha Mukherjee BEAT Wanwisa Aueawiriyayothin/Jinnipa Sawettabut – 11-8, 11-7, 11-4

Men’s Singles

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran LOST TO Chuqin Wang – 3-11, 3-11, 6-11, 3-11

Sharath Kamal vs Chih-yuan-Chuang – 3.30 PM

Squash

Women’s Semifinal

India LOST TO Hong Kong – 1-2

Men’s Semifinal

India vs Malaysia – 4PM

ESports

DOTA 2 Group matches

Match -1 India vs Kyrgystan – 11.30 AM

Match -2 India vs Philippines – 12.30 PM

Boxing

Women – Round of 16

57kg – Parveen BEAT Xu Zichun –

Men – Round of 16

80kg – Lakshya Chahar LOST TO Omurbek Bekzhigit – 1-4

Chess

Team Event

Men: Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa – 12.30 PM

Women: Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B – 12.30 PM

Handball

India vs China – 3.30 PM

Hockey

India vs Malaysia – 4.00 PM

Basketball

India vs Mongolia – 5.30 PM

Also Read:

• Asian Games: Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh & Rhythm Sangwan win gold in 25m pistol team
• Asian Games: India women win silver in Women’s 50m Rifle 3 positions team event
• Sift Kaur Samra breaks WORLD RECORD in 50m 3 rifle positions to take gold, Ashi Chouksey wins bronze
• Asian Games: Esha Singh adds 25m pistol silver, Manu Bhaker ends disappointing fifth
• Asian Games: It’s raining medals in shooting as India’s men’s skeet team claims bronze

Asian Games – Hockey

After their 13-0 win against Singapore, India Women will take on Malaysia in Hockey in their second group encounter at the Asian Games. Malaysia, on the other hand, secured an 8-0 victory over Hong Kong China. The contest is scheduled to begin at 4 PM IST.

While both the teams are looking to continue their winning momentum, India enter the contest as the favourites. India enjoys a commanding 16-0 lead in the head-to-head record against Malaysia. The last time these two teams faced off was in the Women’s Asia Cup 2022, where India registered an emphatic 9-0 win.

Where to watch Asian Games LIVE?

Asian Games will be LIVE Streamed on Sony Sports Network. The events will be telecast LIVE across Sony Sports Network Channels: Sony Sports Ten 1, Sony Sports Ten 2, Sony Sports Ten 3, Sony Sports Ten 4, Sony Sports Ten 5 channels. Fans can also watch it LIVE on Sonyliv App.