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?
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