- Vinesh Phogat bags the gold medal in the 50 kg category
- 19-year-old shooter Lakshay bagged a silver in the Men’s Trap event
- Shooter Deepak Kumar opened India’s account on Day 2 with a silver in the Men’s 10m Air Rifle Final.
- Defending champions India start their campaign against Indonesia in the men’s hockey Pool A match at 7:00pm IST.
Men's Hockey: India Decimates Indonesia 17-0
Indian men’s hockey team scored 17 goals against their Indonesian counterpart in their Pool A opener.
Mandeep Singh, Dilpreet Singh and Simranjeet Singh scored three goals while Rupinder Pal Singh scored a brace.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian team like their female counterparts failed to take a single shot at the Indian goal.
India will next play Hong Kong on Wednesday, 22 August, in their second match of Pool A.
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Wrestling: Sumit Malik Loses Bronze
Wrestler Sumit Malik fails to win the bronze after losing 0-2 to Uzbekistan’s Modzmanashvili Davit in the men’s 125 kg category.
Wrestling: Sakshi Fails to Bag Bronze
Wrestler Sakshi Malik lost her 62 kg category bronze medal match 2-12 against North Korea’s Rim Jong-Sim.
Sakshi was never in the match as her North Korean opponent took a 6-0 lead in first two minutes. Eventually Sakshi lost on technical superiority after playing for 2:42 minutes.
Wrestling: No Bronze For Pooja Dhanda
Pooja Dhanda lose 1-6 to Japan’s Katsuki Sakagami in the bronze medal match in the women’s 57 kg category.
In the first round both wrestlers looked to defend as Pooja was awarded a technical point.
Katsuki took control of the bout in the second round as Pooja sacrificed her defence to continue her attack. The Japanese took full advantage of it to make it 6-1 at the end Round 2.
