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India won eight on Day 6 of the 2023 Asian Games.
Five of those medals came in shooting – gold in men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions team, gold in women's 10m Air Pistol individual, silver in women's 10m Air Pistol team, silver in women's 10m Air Pistol individual, silver in men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions individual.
Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan won a silver medal in men's doubles in tennis.
In squash, the women's team of Joshna Chinappa, Anahat Singh, Dipika Pallikal and Tanvi Khanna secured a bronze medal.
The first athletics medal came in women's shot put, where Kiran Baliyan bagged a bronze medal.
The men's badminton team, mixed tennis pair of Rohan Bopanna-Rutuja Bhosale, and boxer Nikhat Zareen have all assured medals.
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Aditi Ashok is currently tied for second place in the women's singles round 2. Both T12 and T20 are Pranavi URS Sharath and Avani Prashanth. India is moving up the leaderboard in the second round of women's team play, trailing China in second place.
Race Walk: In men's 20km race walk, India’s Vikash Singh has finished at the fifth place with a timing of 1:27:33. Wang Zhaozhao and Jun Zhang of China are in first and second place, respectively, with Yutaro Murayama of Japan in third place (1:24:41).
With a timing of 1:31:52, India's Priyanka Goswami has finished fifth in the women's 20km race walk. Jiayu Yang (1:30:03), Zhenxia Ma (1:30:04), and Nanako Fujii (1:30:04) of China, Zhenxia, and Japan, respectively, finished first, second, and third.
Shooting, BIB numbers of the shooters are as follows:
Palak - 1147
Esha Singh - 1148
Divya Subbaraju - 1149
Shooting, Kneeling, Scores after Series 1:
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar - 99 points
Akhil Sheoran - 95
Swapnil Suresh Kusale - 98
Shooting: scores after series 1
Esha - 95
Palak - 97
Divya - 95
Meanwhile, the trio is currently at the eighth spot in the standings.
Shooting, Kneeling, Scores after series 2
Aishwary Singh Tomar - 99, 100
Akhil - 95, 99
Swapnil - 98, 98
Shooting, Prone, Scores after series 1:
Aishwary Tomar - 199, 98
Akhil - yet to complete
Swapnil - 196, 100
Shooting: scores after series 2:
Esha - 95, 97
Palak - 97, 97
Divya - 95, 97
India's PV Sindhu is currently up against Pornpawee Chochuwong of Thailand in the women's team event quarterfinals.
Shooting, Prone, Scores after series 2:
Aishwary Tomar - 199, 197
Akhil - 194, 197
Swapnil - 196, 199
Shooting: scores after series 3:
Esha: 192, (95)
Palak: 194, (96)
Divya: 192, (95)
Shooting: scores after series 4:
Esha: 287, (99)
Palak: 290, (95)
Divya: 287, (99)
Golf: Aditi Ashok has so far played another bogey-free round and is tied for the first spot after playing 11 holes so far in the second round. With three birdies and an eagle, she’s -5 for today and -10 overall, with seven more holes to go.
Badminton: PV Sindhu is back in action today and is up against Thailand’s world number 12 Pornpawee Chochuwong in the women’s team event quarterfinals. Sindhu, currently ranked 15th the world world, won the first game with relative ease at 21-14 but Chochuwong fought back and has levelled the match 1-1 after winning the second game 21-15.
She is currently leading the third game 6-5.
Shooting: scores after series 5:
Esha: 386, (97)
Palak: 385, (96)
Divya: 386, (93)
Shooting, Standing, Scores after series 1:
Aishwary Tomar: 386, (98)
Akhil: 391, (98)
Swapnil: 395, (99)
Tennis: In the men's doubles final, Indian pair of Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan is fighting for gold against the duo from Chinese Taipei.
Shooting, Standing, Scores after series 2:
Aishwary Tomar: 494, (97)
Akhil: yet to complete
Swapnil: 494, (97)
Aishwary is placed 1st while Swapnil sits on the second spot ion the table.
Badminton: PV Sindhu has been defeated by Pornapawee Chochuwong in the opening match, 21-14, 15-21,14-21. Thailand lead 1-0.
Shooting: With a score of 1731 the trio of Esha Singh, Palak G and Divya have won a silver medal in the women's 10m air pistol event.
Esha (5th place) and Palak (8th place) have advanced to the individual final which will take place at 9:00am.
Shooting: The promising shooting contingent of India keeps delivering. They've bagged yet another gold in men's 50m rifle 3ps team event.
The trio of Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale and Akhil Sheoran finished with a total of 1769 while Swapnil (591) and Aishwary (591) finish at the top and jointly share a new qualification Asian Games record.
Aishwary and Swapnil have also qualified for the individual final which will be held at 11:30am whereas Akhil, who finished fifth missed out on the qualification as only two shooters are allowed as per the rules of Asian Games.
Badminton: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand are squaring off against Jongkolphan Kittitharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai in doubles.
Golf: From being tied for the lead after the turn, Aditi Ashok has dropped to tied third in the second round of women’s golf. She bogeyed the 16th and is now -10 for the day.
Nina Venkatesh of India places fifth in Women's 50m Butterfly Heat 2 with a time of 27.80s. The top 8 timings from each Heat advance to the next round.
Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan are competing in the men’s doubles gold medal match against Chinese Taipei and the Indian pair have dropped the first set 4-6.
Jason Jung and Yu-hsiou Hsu took the early lead, winning the first set in 35 minutes but the second set is currently tied at 1-1.
Badminton: The Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand have lost to Thailand's Jongkolphan Kittitharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai 19-21, 5-21. They lead by 2-0.
Badminton: Ashmita Chaliha is up against Busanan Ongbamrungphan in a must-win singles tie.
India's Tanvi Khanna has lost her first game 11-6 against Hong Kong's Chan Sin Yuk in the women's semifinal.
Tennis: After falling to Chinese Taipei's Jason Jung and Yu-hsiou Hsu 6-4, 6-4 in the men's doubles match, Indian duo of Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan have bagged a silver.
Shooting: 17-year-old Palak and 18-year old Esha are set to kickstart their individual final event.
Shooting: Esha Singh gets off the mark with a 20.2 in her first two shots while Palak starts the final with a 9.1.
Shooting, Scores after 1st series:
Esha Singh: 10.5, 9.7, 9.8, 10.5, 10.3, 2nd Place
Palak: 9.1, 10.3, 9.9, 10.0, 10.6, 3rd Place
Shooting, Scores after 2nd series:
Esha Singh: 10.7, 9.4, 10.1, 9.9, 10.1, 1st Place
Palak: 9.8, 10.2, 10.1, 10.5, 10.2, 2nd Place
Shooting, Scores after 3rd series:
Esha Singh: 9.4, 9.9, 2nd Place
Palak: 9.6, 10.5, 1st Place
Hong Kong's Ho Ching has been eliminated
Shooting, Scores after 4th series:
Esha Singh: 9.9, 10.1, 2nd Place
Palak: 10.3, 9.9, 1st Place
China's Zhao Nan has been eliminated
Shooting, Scores after 5th series:
Esha Singh: 10.5, 9.6, 2nd Place
Palak: 10.5, 10.5, 1st Place
Thu Vin of Vietnam has been eliminated
Shooting, Scores after 6th series:
Palak: 10.7, 9.5, 1st Place
Esha Singh: 10.4, 10.0, 2nd Place
China's Ranxin Jiang has been eliminated
Shooting, women's 10m air pistol individual final, Scores after 8th series:
Palak: With a total of 242.1, the 17-year-old clinches the gold medal and in the process creates a world record.
Esha Singh: With a total of 239.7, 18-year-old Esha finishes second and bags the silver.
Kishmala Talat: 9.3, With a total score of 209.2, the Pakistani shooter gets a bronze.
Shooting, Scores after 7th series:
Palak: 9.8, 9.8, 1st Place
Esha Singh: 9.8, 10.1, 2nd Place
Chiaying has been eliminated
Badminton: Thailand have thumped India 3-0 in the women's quarterfinals.
Table Tennis: India's Manika Batra has defeated Suthasini Sawettabut 4-2 to qualify for the women's singles quarterfinals.
She will square off against China's Wang Yidi in the quarterfinals.
Joshna has defeated her Hong Kong counterpart in the second round. That's 2-2.
Joshna Chinappa has defeated Hong Kong to keep India afloat in the semifinals. It's 1-1 Hong Kong. 15-year-old Anahat Singh is now up in the decider.
After finishing sixth overall in the heats with a time of 1:58.40s, India's Sajan Prakash advances to the final, which will take place at 6:18pm IST.
The Indian women's squash team has lost their semi-final against Hong Kong after a hard fought third rubber played by 15-year-old Anahat Singh.
The defeat means the team will finish with a bronze in the event.
After Tanvi Khanna lost the first tie and Joshana Chinappa kept India in the match with a win in the second singles match, young Anahat Singh faced a must-win match against Ka Yi Lee. She fought hard but lost the first two games 11-8 and 11-7 before making an incredible comeback in the third, winning eight points on the trot to go up to 10-11 before Lee won the final point she needed to close the win.
The men's team will take on Malaysia in the semis later today.
Table Tennis: Indian duo of Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah have defeated Pang Yew En Koen and Izaac Quek Yong of Singapore 3-2 (3-11, 11-9, 11-6, 5-11, 11-8) to advance to the quarterfinals where they will face Jang Woojin and Lim Jonghoon of the Republic of Korea.
Table Tennis: India's Sharath Kamal Achanta and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lose to China's Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin in the round of 16 in men's doubles table tennis 11-5, 11-4, 11-7.
Round 2 in women’s golf ended today and three Indians have made the cut as the field has been cut by half going into the weekend.
Aditi Ashok is tied second with a -11 score after the two rounds, following her -6 round today. She shot five birdies, one eagle but then also hit a bogey on the 16th to wrap up her round for the day.
Pranavi Sharath is tied at 10th with -5 and Avani Prashanth is tied 15th with a score of -3.
All three women golfers making the cut also means that India is in prime position in the team standings, currently placed in the bronze medal position behind China and Thailand.
Silver medalists Indian shooters Divya Thadigol Subbaraju, Esha Singh and Palak stand at podium after the womens 10m air pistol team event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
Gold medalist shooter India's Palak, silver medallist compatriot Esha Singh and bronze medallist Pakistans Kishmala Talat stand at the podium after the finals of womens 10m air pistol (individual) event at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
Tennis Semifinal: Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale are taking on Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Yu-Hsiou and Chan Hao-ching in mixed doubles semifinals.
Shooting, Kneeling, Scores after series 1:
Aishwary: 51.4, 8th Place
Swapnil: 48.8, 3rd Place
Shooting, Kneeling, Scores after series 2:
Aishwary: 50.8, 6th Place
Swapnil: 52.2, 3rd Place
Shooting, Kneeling, Scores after series 3:
Aishwary: 52.2, 6th Place
Swapnil: 49.2, 2nd Place
Rohan Bopanna and Bhosale have the opening set 6-1 Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Yu-Hsiou and Chan Hao-ching in mixed doubles semifinals.
Shooting, Prone, Scores after Series 3:
Aishwary: 50.8, 52.3, 51.9
Total: 306.4, Place: 5th
Swapnil: 52.2, 52.6, 63.8
Total: 310.8, Place: 1st
Shooting, Standing, Scores after Series 1:
Swapnil: 50.5, 1st Place
Aishwary: 51.7, Tied for 3rd
Shooting, Standing, Scores after Series 2:
Swapnil: 49.4, 1st Place
Aishwary: 50.1, 5th Place
The first elimination has been done; Iran's Pourys and Korean shooter has been eliminated.
Shooting, Standing:
Swapnil: Qualified for final in first position and led the final also at times but a 7.6 has seen him get eliminated in fourth position with a total of 438.9 points.
Jonghyoun Kim and Kazakh shooter Konstantin were evicted before him
Shooting, Standing: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (459,7) has finished second with a marginal difference of 0.8 with gold medalist Linshu Du of China (460.6) in men's 50m rifle 3p individual final.
The Chinese has also set a new world record.
Boxing: 2022 World Championships bronze medalist Parveen Hooda (57kg) is through to the quarter-finals with a 5-0 win over China's Xu Zichun in the round of 16 clash at the Asian Games
Tennis: After defeating their Chinese Taipei's opponents of Hsu Yu-Hsiou and Chan Hao-ching 6-1, 3-6,10-4, Indian duo of Bopanna and Bhosale have cruised to the mixed doubles final.
India have lost their DOTA 2 group stage match against Kyrgyzstan.
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Unpleasant news coming from table tennis.
The women's doubles pair of youngsters Diya Chitale and Sreeja Akula have suffered a defeat in their round of 16 tie, losing to Japan's Miwa Harimoto and Miwuu Kihara by a 0-3 margin.
22-year-old Indian boxer Lakshya Chahar's campaign in Hangzhou has come to an end, as he has been defeated in his men's 71-80kg round of 16 tie. Up against Kyrgyzstan's Oomurbek Bekzhigit Uulu, Lakshya has been defeated 1-4 on points.
VICTORY!
The Mukherjee² table tennis pair from Bengal – Sutirtha and Ayhika – have stormed into the quarter-finals of women's doubles. In their Round of 16 tie, they defeated Wanwisa Aueawiriyayothin and Jinnipa Sawettabut of Thailand by a 3-0 margin.
In their next match, they will be up against China's Meng Chen and Yidi Wang.
Another Medal Assured!
The men's badminton team has assured at least a bronze medal by qualifying for the semi-final. In their quarter-final match, they defeated Nepal by a 3-0 margin, with all of Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath and Kidambi Srikanth winning their respective matches.
With this the men's badminton team have secured a medal in Asian Games after a prolonged wait of 37 years. In the semi-final, India will take on the winner of the match Indonesia and South Korea.
Track and field athlete Aishwarya Mishra has qualified for the final round of women's 400m. The 26-year-old, who won a silver medal at the Indian Grand Prix in Trivandrum earlier this year, finished second in her heat round, with a season best timing of 52.73.
Another Medal Assured!
Nikhat Zareen has assured at least a bronze medal, by qualifying the semi-final of women's 45-50kg category. In her quarter-final bout, the world champion defeated Jordan Hanan Nassar in only 53 seconds, via RSC (referee stops count).
With this victory, Nikhat has also officially sealed her place in India's Paris Olympics contingent. As for her Asian Games campaign, she will be up against Thailand's Chuthamat Raksat in the semi-final.
Amid plenty of positive news across a plethora of events, the women's handball team has unfortunately been eliminated, following a 30-37 defeat against China. They will face Nepal in their last group stage fixture, albeit a victory in that match will not earn them a place in the next round.
Victory in Women's Hockey!
Janneke Schopman's girls have secured their second straight win by handing Malaysia a 6-0 defeat. India had six different goal-scorers, with Lalremsiami, Sangita Kumari, Vaishnavi Phalke, Nisha Warsi, Deep Grace Ekka and Monika Malik all getting into the score-sheet.
An all-round impressive performance from Tanya Chaudhary sees her finishing seventh in the final round of women's hammer throw, with a best score of 60.50. Meanwhile, her Indian compatriot, Rachna Kumari finishes ninth with a best score of 58.13.
Mixed results coming from the heats of men's 400m.
Muhammed Ajmal was been successful in qualifying for the final round, finishing second in his heat group with a timing of 45.76s. However, Muhammad Anas Yahiya, who won three medals at the 2018 Asian Games, finished third in his round, with his timing of 46.29s not being enough to earn a place in the final.
In 3x3 basketball, India went down fighting in their last group stage match against China, losing the game by a 15-18 margin. They will now take on Iran in a cross-pool shoot-out for a place in the quarter-final
Men's squash team to fight for gold!
Following a bronze medal win from the women's team earlier today, the men's team has now confirmed their participation in a gold medal fight, courtesy of a 2-0 win over Malaysia in their semi-final contest.
Abhay Singh and Saurav Ghosal won their respective contests to help their team qualify for the final.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani men's team has also made it to a final, meaning we are set for an India-Pakistan gold shoot-out!
It is looking very likely that there will be an addition to India's medals tally!
The final of women's shut put is currently going on, where Kiran Baliyan is currently placed third after Round 3 of 6, with a best attempt of 17.36m. Fellow Indian Manpreet Kaur is in fourth place, with her best attempt so far being 16.25m.
FIRST ATHLETICS MEDAL!
Kiran Baliyan is India's first member from a star-studded athletic contingent to have won a medal. The 24-year-old shot putter from Uttar Pradesh has secured a bronze medal with her best throw of 17.36m. This marks a significant improvement from her 17.17m throw at the National Championships back in June this year, where she finished first on the podium.
Meanwhile, fellow Indian compatriot, Manpreet Kaur has finished fifth with a best throw of 16.25m.
And with this, we have come to the conclusion of what has been a remarkable day for the Indian contingent. India won eight medals today – five in shooting, a squash bronze, an athletics bronze, and a tennis silver. Moreover, a few other medals were assured.
To know about everything that happened across every single event, check out our Day Wrap.
With athletics having officially commenced, and so has the addition of medals, the next few days will be exciting for the India, who are now fourth on the medals tally with 33 medals.
Like always, we will be bringing you all the live updates from tomorrow. Till then, allow us to bid adieu. It has been a long day!