Asian Games: India add nine medals to tally on Day 9

Indian athletes continued to add medals to the tally at the Asian Games. Parul Choudhary created history by becoming the first Indian to win a medal in 5000m. Annu Rani also won the gold in the Women’s Javelin Throw. Tejaswin Shankar meanwhile clinched the silver medal in Decathlon.

The Indian Women’s Hockey team clinched a 13-0 win against Hong Kong in their final pool match. Earlier, the men’s Kabaddi team kick-started the proceedings at the Asian Games on 3rd October with a win. The Pawan Sehrawat-led side clinched a resounding 55-18 victory against Bangladesh in their opening group encounter. The men’s cricket team defeated Nepal in the quarterfinal.

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Asian Games Schedule

Archery

Women Individual Quarterfinal – Compound

• Jyothi Surekha Vennam BEAT Adel Zhexenbinova – 147-144
• Aditi Swami BEAT Amaya Cojuangco – 149-143

Men Individual Quarterfinal – Compound

• Abhishek Verma BEAT Andrey Tyutyun – 147-147
• Pravin Ojas Deotale BEAT Jaewon Yang – 150-146

Women’s Individual Semifinal – Compound

• Jyothi Surekha Vennam BEAT Aditi Swami – 149-146

Men Individual Semifinal – Compound

• Abhishek Verma BEAT Jae-hoon Joo – 147-145
• Pravin Ojas Deotale BEAT Jaewon Yang – 150-146

Men Individual Quarterfinal – Recurve

• Atanu Das LOST TO Xiangshuo Qi – 5-6
• Dhiraj Bommadevara LOST TO Ilfat Abdullin – 5-6

Kabaddi

Men

India BEAT Bangladesh – 55-18

Women

India BEAT South Korea – 56-23

Athletics

Men’s Decathlon Hurdles

Tejaswin Shankar

110m Hurdles – 14.78 (5th place in Heats)

Discuss Throw – 39.28m (3rd place in Heats)

Pole Vault – 4.10m (6th place in Heats)

Women’s 800m Heat 1

KM Chanda – 2:07.38 – First in Heats (Qualified for Final)

Women’s 800m Heat 2

Harmilan Bains – 2:06.62 – First in Heats (Qualified for Final)

Men’s 4*400m Relay

Muhammad Anas Yahiya, Nihal Joel, Amoj Jacob, Mijo Chacko Kurien – 3:03.81 – First in Heats (Qualified for Final)

Women’s high jump final

Pooja Saini – 6th – 1.80m, Rubina Yadav – 9th – 1.75m

Men’s Triple jump Final

Praveen Chitravel – 16.68m – BRONZE

Abdulla Aboobacker – 16.62m – FOURTH

Women’s 400m hurdles Final

Vitya Ramraj – 5:05 PM

Men’s 400m hurdles Final

Yashash Palaksha – 49.39s – Fifth

Santhosh Tamilarasan – 49.41s – Sixth

Women’s 5000m Final

Parul Chaudhary – 15:14.75 – GOLD MEDAL

Ankita Dhyani – 15:33.03 – Fifth place

Women’s Javelin throw Final

Annu Rani – 62.92m – GOLD MEDAL

Men’s 800m Final

Mohammed Afsal – 1:48.43 – Second place

Men’s Decathlon 1500m Final

Cricket

Men’s Cricket

India BEAT Nepal by 24 runs

Sepaktakraw

India LOST TO South Korea – 1-2

Soft Tennis

Men

India vs Thailand – 7.30 AM

Cambodia vs India – 11 AM

India vs South Korea – 12.45 PM

India vs Chinese Taipei – 2.30 PM

Women

India vs Mongolia – 7.30 AM

Japan vs Japan – 9 AM

India vs Vietnam – 11.30 AM

India vs China – 2.45 PM

Hockey

Women

India BEAT Hong Kong – 13-0

Badminton

Men’s Singles R32

HS Prannoy BEAT Batdavaa Munkhbat – 21-9, 21-12

Kidambi Srikanth BEAT Lee Yungyu – 21-16, 21-11

Women’s Singles R32

PV Sindhu BEAT Hsu Wen-chi – 21-10, 21-15

Ashmita Chaliha LOST TO Gregoria Tunjung – 17-21, 16-21

Women’s Doubles R32

Tressa Joly/Gayatri Gopichand BEAT Abdul Razzaq/Abdul Razzaq – 21-14, 21- 12

Tanisha Crasto/Ashwini Ponappa BEAT Maisa Ismail/Aishath Afnaan – 21-2, 12-2

Canoeing

Men’s Canoe Doubles 1000m Final – Arjun SIngh/Sunil Singh – 3:53:329 – BRONZE MEDAL

Women’s Kayak Four 500m Final – Soniya Devi, Parvathy Geetha, Binita Chanu, Dimita Devi – 1:55.42 – 8th Place

Women’s Canoe Doubles 200m Final – Neha Devi – 51.479 – 8th Place

Squash

Mixed Doubles Pool Match

Harinder Pal/Dipika Pallikal BEAT Risa Sugimoto/Tomotaka Endo – 11-5, 11-5

Abhay Singh/Anahat Singh BEAT Tsz Wing Tong/Ming Hong Tang – 11-10, 11-8

Women’s Singles Quarterfinal

Tanvi Khanna LOST TO 5-11, 6-11, 12-14

Men’s Singles Quarterfinal

Saurav Ghosal BEAT Ryunosuke Tsukue – 11-5, 12-10, 11-3

Boxing

Women’s 54 Semifinal

Preeti Pawar LOST TO Yuan Chang – 0-5

Women’s 75 Kg Semifinal

Lovlina Borgohain BEAT Baison Maneekon – 5-0

Men’s 57 KG R8

Sachin LOST TO Ping Lyu – 1-4

Men’s +92 kg Semis

Narender LOST TO Kunkabayev – 0-5

Diving

Men’s 3m springboard preliminary

Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh – 6.30 AM

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.