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India won nine medals today.
Six of those medals came in athletics – Parul Chaudhary and Annu Rani won gold medals, Muhammed Afsal Pulikkalakath & Tejaswin Shankar won silver, and Vithya Ramraj & Praveen Chithravel won bronze.
Boxer Narender won a bronze medal in men's +92 category, while Preeti Pawar won a bronze medal in women's 54kg category.
In Canoe, Arjun Singh & Sunil Singh winning the bronze in the Men's Canoe Double 1000 event.
The men's cricket team registered a 23-run victory in the quarter-final against Nepal.
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Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 10: Ni Hao! Welcome to our live blog on the 10th Day of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou. Stay tuned for live updates!
Kabaddi: The Men’s Kabaddi Group A match between India and Bangladesh is currently underway. India are dominating the game with a lead of 19-6 over the neighbors.
Cricket: Sipper Ruturaj Gayakwad won the toss and have opted to bat first against Nepal in the quaterfinals match.
Kabaddi: India have taken a comfortable 24-9 lead over Bangladesh at the end of the first half of the match.
A look at the playing XIs:
India: Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, R Sai Kishore, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh.
Nepal: Rohit Kumar Paudel, Mahamad Asif Sheikh, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Bhurtel, Abinash Bohara, Gulshan Kumar Jha, Sundeep Jora, Sompal Kami, Karan Kc, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kushal Malla
Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar, who was leading the standings with a 250-point lead after the first five events has finished fifth in the 110m hurdles.
Athletics: Tejaswin Shanker is still leading the standings after six events He has accumulated 247points after the 110m hurdles.
Archery: India's In compound women’s individual, India's Jyothi Surekha Vennam has defeated her Kazakh opponent 147-144 to advance to the semifinals where she will face the winner of the contest between compatriot Aditi Gopichand Swami and Amaya Amparo Cojuangco.
Archery: Compound archer Aditi Swami is also through to the semifinals of women's individual event after registering a defeat over Philippines opponent 149-143.
Athletics: India's Chanda has finished at the first place in the women's 800m qualification and has qualified for the final event of tomorrow. Harmilan Bains, too, has won her heat in the 800m to cruise through to the final.
Kabaddi: The scoreboards looks too good for India. They have a massive lead of 44-11 lead over Bangladesh.
Cricket: After 6 overs, India hve put 63 runs on the board with skipper Gayakwad batting at 14 while Yashashvi Jaiswal has scored 44 runs from the other end.
Score: 63-0 (6)
Archery: Compound archers and compatriots Jyoyhi Surekha Vennam and Adiiti Swami will lock horns with each other in women's semifinal event today. At least one medal in India's pocket is assured.
Kabaddi: India have kickstarted their campaign with a resounding 37-point victory over Bangladesh.
Scores: India 55-18 Bangaldesh
Athletics: A 36.54m personal best throw from Tejaswin to get things going in the discus throw event but a 38.04m throw in his final attempt will see him at the third place in the standing.
With 5786 points, he maintains his top spot after the discus throw.
Athletics: The quartet of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Nihal Joel William, Amoj Jacob, and Mijo Chacko Kurian are through to the final with a timing of 3:03.81s in their heats
Sepaktakraw: India have lost their match against South Korea 2-1 (21-16, 16-21, 21-16) in Group B men’s quadrant prelims. After having having lost the first round, they made a comeback to equalize the scores but only to suffer a defeat in the decider.
Hockey: In their final group match, the Indian women are squaring off against Hong Kong. Although they have advanced to the semifinals, the women in blue will strive to finish the group ahead of South Korea.
Cricket: In India's quarterfinals match against Nepal, Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has notched up a superb ton in just 49 balls.
Score: India 157/3 (17)
Cricket: Riding on Yahasvi Jaiswal's century, India have posted a total of 202 runs in 20 overs for Nepal to chase. Skipper Ruturaj Gayakwad and Shivam Dube scored 25 runs each and Rinku Singh added the finishing touches with his 37 off 15 balls.
Score: India - 202/4 (20)
Archery: India's Abhishek Verma is through to the compound men's semifinal after getting the better of Kazakh opponent Andrey Tyutyun in the shootout.
Compatriot, Ojas Deotale, too, advanced to the semifinal after he beat Kazakhstan's Akbarali Karabayev with a scoreline of 150-142.
Badminton: In his opening game of round of 32 match, HS Prannoy defeated Mongolian opponent Batdavaa Munkhbat 21-9 and has registered an easy 21-9, 21-12 win in the second round too to progress to pre quarterfinals.
Canoe: The Indian pair of Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh have won a bronze in men's canoe double 1000 final to open India's medal account on Day 10.
Athletics: Tejaswin has scored yet another personal best, this time it's in pole vault where he finished with a 4.10m effort and is placed fourth in the standings.
Archery: Compund archer Jyothi Vennam has cruised to the women's final event after defeating fellow Indian Aditi Swami in women's semifinal.
Jyothi has assured at least a silver for India.
Squash: Indian duo of Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu have defeated their Japanese opponents 11-5, 11-5 in Pool A in mixed doubles.
India's HS Prannoy in action against Batdavaa Munkhbat of Mongolia during their mens singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
India's HS Prannoy in action against Batdavaa Munkhbat of Mongolia during their mens singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Indias Abhishek Verma competes with Kazakhstans Andrey Tyutyu in the quarterfinals of Compound Mens Individual archery event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
India's HS Prannoy in action against Batdavaa Munkhbat of Mongolia during their mens singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Indias Abhishek Verma competes with Kazakhstans Andrey Tyutyu in the quarterfinals of Compound Mens Individual archery event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
India's HS Prannoy in action against Batdavaa Munkhbat of Mongolia during their mens singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Indias Abhishek Verma competes with Kazakhstans Andrey Tyutyu in the quarterfinals of Compound Mens Individual archery event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Indias Mijo Chacko Kurian crosses the finish line during the mens 4x400-meter relay heat at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Japans Yuma Maruyama competes during the mens decathlon 110-meter hurdles at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Hockey: The Indian women's hockey team has entered the semifinals after a commanding 13-0 win over Hong-Kong.
Vandana Katariya (2’, 16’, 48’), Deepika (4’, 54’, 58’) Monika (7’), Deep Grace Ekka (11’, 42), Sangita Kumari (27’, 55’), Vaishnavi Vithal Phalke (34’), and Navneet Kaur (58’) got on the board for India.
Badminton: PV Sindhu has defeated Chinese Taipei's Hsu Wen-Chi 21-10, 21-15 to qualify for the Round of 16.
Hangzhou: India’s PV Sindhu during her match against Wen-Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei during their women's singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Hangzhou: India’s PV Sindhu during her match against Wen-Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei during their women's singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Hangzhou: India’s PV Sindhu reacts after winning a point against Wen-Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei during their women's singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Hangzhou: India’s PV Sindhu during her match against Wen-Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei during their women's singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Archery: Abhishek Verma is through to the final he has defeated Joo Jaehoon by two points in men's compound archery semifinal with a scoreline of 147-145.
Cricket: The Indian men's cricket team has defeated Nepal by 23 runs in their quarterfinal clash to enter in the semis. This was their first outing of the 2023 Asian Games as India look to win their first men's cricket gold, in their debut outing at the event.
Brief scores:
India 202/4 (Yashasvi 100, Ruturaj 25, Shivam 25, Rinku 37*; Dipendra 2/31)
Nepal 179/9 (Kushal 28, Malla & Sundeep 29, Dipendra 32; Bishnoi 3/24, Avesh 3/32)
It’s been a stellar show from the Indian archery team out on the range this Tuesday morning with almost all semifinals featuring an India. But they’ve done one better as three archers have booked their spots in Saturday’s individual finals and one has qualified for the bronze medal match.
In the men’s individual compound event, Abhishek Verma first defeated Korea’s Jaehoon Too 147-145 in the first semi-final and then Ojas Pravin Deotale beat Korea’s Jaewon Yang 150-146 to set up an all Indian men’s final.
In the women’s compound individual event, Jyothi Surekha and Aditi Gopichand both ended up in the same half of the draw and faced-off in the semi-final with Jyoti winning by a 149-146 scoreline. She qualified for the gold medal match on Sunday while Aditi will fight for the bronze.
The recurve events will start shortly.
Abhay Singh, the star of the men's team's gold medal match against Pakistan a few days back, was back in action today in the mixed doubles event.
With partner 15-year-old Anahat Singh, he was playing the final pool match against Hong Kong today and the Indian pair has come out on top, winning the match 11-10, 11-8 in 26 minutes.
PV Sindhu serves against Wen-Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei during their womens singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
India's PV Sindhu reacts after winning a point against Wen-Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei during their womens singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
India's PV Sindhu plays against Wen-Chi Hsu of Chinese Taipei during their womens singles badminton match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Athletics: With 6431 points to his name, Tejaswin Shankar is sitting at the second place in the overall rankings. Later in the day, he will compete in the 1500-meter run and the javelin throw.
Boxing: India’s Preeti is taking on her Chinese opponent Yuan Chang in the women’s 54kg boxing bout.
Boxing: Yuan Chang has defeated Preeti 4-1 in the first round.
Boxing: 2022 Asian Championships bronze medalist Preeti will end up with a bronze medal in women’s 54kg semifinal after she loses 5-0 to Yuan Chang.
Preeti now has become second boxer after Nikhat Zareen to clinch the bronze medal.
Indias Preeti (red) lands a punch on Chinas Chang Yuan during the 50kg-54kg category semifinal boxing match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Indias Preeti (red) lands a punch on Chinas Chang Yuan during the 50kg-54kg category semifinal boxing match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Indias Preeti (red) lands a punch on Chinas Chang Yuan during the 50kg-54kg category semifinal boxing match at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Badminton: Asmita Chaliha has lost 21-17, 21-16 to Tunjung in women's singles round of 32.
Boxing: India's Lovlina Borgohain is squaring off against Thailand's Baison Maneekon in women's 66-75kg boxing semifinal.
Boxing: Lovlina has won the first round of women's 66-75kg semifinal 5-0 against the Thai boxer.
Boxing: Thai boxer Maneekon has defeated Lovlina 3-2 in the second round of women's 66-75kg semifinal.
Boxing: The third round of the women's 75kg semifinal goes in Lovlina's favor and the Indian reigning world champion has defeated her Thai opponent 5-0.
This win not only assures Lovlina of at least a silver in Hangzhou but also a ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Archery: India’s Atanu Das have lost to Xiangshuo Qi of China 6-5 in the men’s recurve individual quarterfinal.
Diving: London Singh and Siddharth Pardeshi place 16th and 17th, respectively, in the qualification and have failed to make the cut for the next round.
Archery: India’s Dhiraj Bommadevara was handed a 5-6 defeat by Kazakh archer Ilfat Abdullin via shoot-off in the men’s recurve individual quarterfinal.
Earlier, Atanu Das also lost his quarterfinal to Xiangshuo Qi of China 6-5 thus ending India's campaign in the recurve discipline.
India's Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand thumped Maldives' pair of Aminath Nabeeh and Fathimath Nabeeh 2-0 (21-14, 21-12) in women's doubles Round of 32, while Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponappa, the other Indian women's doubles duo, won after their Maldivian opponents had to retire due to an injury, while they were leading 21-2, 12-2.
Both Indian pairs have advanced to the Round of 16.
The Indian women's kabaddi team are in action against the Republic of Korea in their Group A tie and have ended the first half with a lead of 32-9.
It's a commanding victory for the Indian women's kabaddi team in their second outing of the 2023 Asian Games. After the draw against Chinese Taipei in their opening match, the team has beaten Korea 56-23.
They're back on the mat tomorrow at 1:30pm IST against Thailand.
Squash: Tanvi Khanna has bowed out of the women's individual event after losing in straight games to Japan's Satomi Watanbe.
The final scoreline after 32 minutes read 5-11, 6-11, 12-14.
Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Sandhu are now playing their quarterfinals match before Saurav Ghosal plays later today in the men's singles draw.
Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Sandhu have moved into the semifinals of the mixed doubles draw with a victory over Philippines' Jemyca Aribado and Robert Andrew Garcia.
The Indian pair was slow to get off the blocks and dropped the first game 7-11 before making a strong comeback and winning the next two 11-5 and 11-4.
Kidambi Srikanth's made quick work of his men's singles Round of 32 match beating Korea's Yungyu Lee 21-16, 21-11 in 38 minutes.
Joining Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Sandhu in the mixed doubles semifinals is the pair of Abhay Singh and 15-year-old Anahat Singh.
Playing Korea's Dongjun Lee and Yeonsoo Yang, the young pair won the first game and then dropped the second before sailing through the third to win the match 11-4, 8-11, 11-1.
The two Indian teams are in separate halves of the draw so will be competing in different semifinals tomorrow which means there is a chance of an all-Indian final on Thursday.
Capping off a solid day for the Indian squash contingent, its oldest member Saurav Ghosal too has advanced to the semi-finals, of the men's individual event.
Saurav was up against Japan's Ryunosuke Tsukue and won the quarter-final match 3-0 with a 11-5, 12-10, 11-3 scoreline.
With mostly all other Indian events wrapped up, it is now time to move focus towards the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center once again as the contingent's athletes compete in finals. Here's this evening's schedule:
4:30 PM: Women's High Jump Final - Rubina Yadav/ Pooja
4:40 PM: Men's Triple Jump Final - P Chithravel/ Abdullah Aboobacker
5:05 PM: Men's 400m Hurdles Final - Yashash Palaksha/Santosh Tamilarasan
5:20 PM: Women's 5000m Final - Parul Chaudhary/Ankita
5:40 PM: Women's Javelin Final - Annu Rani
5:50 PM: Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Vithya Ramraj
5:55 PM: Men's 800m Final - Krishan Kumar and Md Afsal
Pooja and Rubina Yadav have got off to positive starts in the final of women's high jump. Both athletes successfully recorded 1.70m in their respective second attempts.
First Athletics Medal of Day 10
Vithya Ramraj wins the bronze medal in women's 400m hurdles by clocking a timing of 55.68s. The athlete from Coimbatore was also a part of the silver medal-winning 4x400m mixed relay team.
Meanwhile in men's decathlon, Tejaswin Shankar has finished fifth in the javelin throw event, with a best attempt of 51.17m.
With this, he is now second in the overall standings after nine out of ten events, having accumulated a total of 7037 points. The last event – 1500m – will be contested from 6:10pm IST.
Unfortunately, India's medals tally does not increase after the men's 400m hurdles event.
21-year-old Yashas Palaksha, who is a National Games gold medallist, finishes fifth with a timing of 49.39s. Meanwhile, fellow Indian athlete Santosh Kumar Tamilarasan, who is an Asian Athletics Championships bronze medallist, finished on the sixth place with a timing of 49.41s.
Heartbreaking news coming from boxing!
Boxer Sachin Siwach, a World Youth Championships gold medallist, will not be returning with a medal as his campaign ends in the quarter-final stage. The pugilist has been defeated by China's Lyu Ping via split points (4-1).
Women's High Jump Update:
Both Indian high jumpers, Pooja and Rubina Yadav are out of medal contention. Rubina ends in ninth position with a best attempt of 1.75m, while Pooja ends in sixth position by recording 1.80m.
First Gold Medal of the Day!
Parul Chaudhary wins the gold medal in women's 5000m. For the 28-year-old athlete from Meerut, this is the second Asian Games medal, after she had won a silver medal in women's 3000m steeplechase.
Third Athletics Medal of Today!
Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath wins a silver medal in men's 800m, by clocking a timing of 1:48.43.
Meanwhile, another Indian athlete who competed in the same event, Krishan Kumar was disqualified for obstructing another participant.
Raining Medals in Athletics!
Praveen Chithravel adds to India's medal haul in athletics, by winning the bronze medal in men's triple jump. The 22-year-old's best attempt was 16.68m, while fellow Indian athlete, Abdulla Aboobacker finished fourth with a 16.62m best attempt.
Seventh Medal of Day 10!
Tejaswin Shankar wins the silver medal in men's decathlon. He finished fourth in the last event, 1500m, but that was enough for him to create a new National Record (NR) by accumulating a total of 7666 points.
Annu Rani Turns Back The Clock!
Annu Rani becomes the day's second gold medallist for India, finishing first in women's javelin throw with a Season Best (SB) attempt of 62.92m. This is her second medal in Asian Games, after a bronze in Incheon 2014.
Bronze For Narender
Boxer Narender's campaign in Hangzhou ends with a bronze medal, as he is defeated by Kazakhstan's Kamshybek Kunkabayev in the semi-final bout of men's +92kg category. The 28-year-old from Haryana lost 0-5 on points.
And so, we have come to the end of Day 10 of the 2023 Asian Games.
India had a good medal haul today, perhaps better than initially expected, winning nine medals. Annu Rani and Parul Chaudhary were the highlights of the day, securing gold medals in women's javelin throw and women's 5000m respectively.
At the end of the day, India are fourth in the medals tally with 69 medals – 15 gold, 26 silver and 28 bronze.
There are plenty of medal events lined up for tomorrow, the most notable of them being Neeraj Chopra's men's javelin throw event. Like always, we will bring you all the live updates from every event tomorrow. Till then, good night!