At the Asian Games, India won silver in sailing and wrestling, and bronze in squash and archery. Including those, India’s total medal tally rose to 6, with 2 silver and 4 bronze medals.
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Sailing
Silver - In the men’s skiff opening race 9, the Indian team comprising Prince Kuriankal Noble and Manu Francis won the silver medal with 23 points. Based on the rule that the team with fewer points wins, China took gold with 16 points. Japan won bronze.
Bronze - In the women’s skiff opening race 9, the Indian team comprising Harshita Tomar and Sheetal Verma won bronze with 24 points. Japan and Hong Kong won gold and silver respectively.
This is the first time India has won a silver medal in sailing at the Asian Games in the skiff category for men’s and women’s teams. These are India’s first two medals in sailing at the current Asian Games.
Wrestling
In the men’s Greco-Roman 97 kg category final, India’s Nitesh Shivach lost 0-4 to Japan’s Yuri Nagasato and won the silver medal.
Earlier, Nitesh reached the final by defeating Turkmenistan’s Amanberdi Akhammamedov 7-1 in the quarterfinals and Mongolia’s Gankhuyag Ganbaatar 9-0 in the semifinals.
Among the other Indians, Mansi, who had advanced to the semifinals in the women’s 62 kg category, lost there 0-6 to Japan’s Nonoka Ozaki. She then reached the bronze medal bout, where too she lost 2-5 to Mongolia’s Aljin Toktok.
In the men’s Greco-Roman category, Sumit (60 kg) and Aman Baronia (77 kg) were knocked out after losing in the quarterfinals itself.
Archery
In the compound men’s individual category, Tamil Nadu’s Ganesh Manirathnam Thirumurug won the bronze medal.
In the quarterfinals, Ganesh defeated Che Lun of Chinese Taipei 148-138, but in the semifinals he lost 144-148 to Kim Jongo of South Korea.
He then advanced to the bronze medal match, where he defeated Vietnam’s Cong Duc Dang 149-144 to claim the medal.
Earlier, this was Ganesh’s second medal in the ongoing competition, after winning gold in the men’s team event. In the women’s individual event, Chikitha Taniparthi lost in the first round 143-144 to Nuriza Dian of Indonesia.
Squash
The Indian men’s and women’s teams lost in their respective semifinals and exited with one bronze medal each.
The men’s team lost 1-2 to Malaysia. Veer Chotrani defeated Sanjay Jeeva 11-4, 11-8, 11-5. Abhay Singh lost to Ian Yow Nicky 8-11, 8-11, 8-11, and Velavan Senthilkumar lost to Ameeshranj Chandran 12-10, 6-11, 8-11, 9-11.
The women’s team lost 1-2 to Hong Kong. Tanvi Khanna fought hard to beat Ka Yi Lee 4-11, 13-11, 11-9, 13-11. Anahat Singh lost to Sin Yuk Chan 11-9, 11-8, 6-11, 11-13, 10-12, and Joshna Chinappa lost to Se Lo Ho 4-11, 7-11, 9-11.
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Judo
In the women’s 70 kg category, India’s Inungangbi Takhelambam lost in the bronze medal round.
Inungan, who defeated Nepal’s Poonam Shrestha in the first round, lost to North Korea’s Sang Hui in the quarterfinals.
Later, as Sang Hui advanced to the final, Inungan got a repechage-round opportunity, in which she defeated China’s Jing Dang and reached the bronze-medal match. But there she lost 12-0 to Mongolia’s Anujin Uran.
Cycling
In the men’s omnium event, India’s Harshveer Singh Sekhon finished only 10th with 22 points. In the women’s sprint event, Keerthi Rangsamy and Chikka Celestina both reached the repechage round before the quarterfinals, where they were eliminated after finishing second in their respective heats.
In the women’s Madison event, Harshitha Jagar, Swasthi Singh, and Meenakshi withdrew without completing the race.
Hockey
The reigning champions, the Indian men’s team, defeated Pakistan 4-3 in their semifinal to advance to the final.
In this match, captain Harmanpreet Singh converted penalty corner chances (5’, 13’) into goals, while Sukhjeet Singh added to the score (23’).
For Pakistan, Abu Mahmood (30’) scored a goal, and India ended the first half with a 3-1 lead. In the second half, Hannan Shahid (45’) and Waheed Rana (49’) scored goals, bringing Pakistan level at 3-3 and putting India under pressure.
In a thrilling final phase, Abhishek (60’) scored for India and helped the team win 4-3. In the final match, India will face Malaysia on Saturday (Oct. 3).
Today is a test for the women’s team: meanwhile, the Indian women’s team will face China in its final match on Friday (Oct. 2).
Tennis
In the men’s singles quarterfinals, Sumit Nagal lost to China’s Wu Yibing in straight sets, 4-6, 4-6. With this, India’s campaign in tennis came to an end.
India exited the Asian Games tennis competition without winning a single medal, the first time this has happened in the past 40 years. Notably, the Indian team last failed to win a medal in 1986, and went on to win a medal in every edition from 1990 onward.
Cricket
India registered a superb 124-run victory over Sri Lanka in the men’s T20 cricket semifinal.
Batting first, India scored 169 for 7 in 20 overs, while Sri Lanka were bowled out for 45 in 9.5 overs.
For India, Ishan Kishan scored 80*, and Vaibhav Suryavanshi made 38 runs. For Sri Lanka, Tharindu Ratnayake and Sahan Arachchige took two wickets each.
Later, in Sri Lanka’s innings, Nuwanidu Fernando’s 15 runs were the highest score. Among the Indian bowlers, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel, and Abhishek Sharma took 2 wickets each.
India-Pak. clash: Meanwhile, in the other semifinal, Pakistan, which defeated Bangladesh by 6 wickets, will face India in the final.
Shooting
In the men’s 25-meter rapid fire pistol final, India’s Anish Bhanwala finished 7th with 11 points. With this, India concluded the shooting events with 15 medals — 3 gold, 8 silver, and 4 bronze.
Sepaktakraw
The Indian men’s team has advanced to the semifinals and secured a medal. Earlier, in the group stage, it defeated Vietnam 15-12, 15-9 in its second match and Myanmar 10-15, 15-13, 15-7 in its third match.
Canoe
In the women’s kayak single canoe slalom final, Sika Chauhan finished in 7th place, reaching the target in 193.31 seconds.
Volleyball
The Indian men’s team lost to Pakistan 0-3 in the quarterfinals. India, ranked 48th in the world, went down to Pakistan, ranked 38th, by scores of 19-25, 23-25, 18-25.
Golf
At the end of the second round of the women’s individual event, Pranavi Sarath remains in second place. Deeksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok are in 21st and 25th place, respectively. In the team event, the Indian team they are part of is in third place.
In the men’s individual event, Shubhankar Talwar is in 7th place, while Veer Alawat and Yuvraj Sandhu are in 16th and 22nd place, respectively. The Indian team they are part of is in 5th place.
Medal table
1 China 154 71 63 288
2 Japan 59 79 79 217
3 South Korea 30 30 53 113
4 Uzbekistan 16 21 19 56
5 Iran 12 17 13 42
8 India 10 23 33 66