India’s gold medal count at the 2023 Asian Games was opened by the 10m Air Rifle team of Rudrankksh Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh, Divyansh Singh Panwar, who created a new world record.
The Indian women's cricket team added to the gold tally by beating Sri Lanka in the final.
Shooters earned two more bronze medals – Aishwary in men's 10m Air Rifle, and the men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol team.
India ended their rowing campaign with 5 medals.
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Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 2: Curtain Call
And with Nishant's victory, India's campaign on Day 2 of the 2023 Asian Games come to a fruitful conclusion. India won six medals today, which also included two gold medals, taking the nation's tally to 11.
The trio of Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar secured India's first gold medal – at the men's 10m Air Rifle team event.
Later in the day, Aishwary, the 22-year-old prodigy who recently won a gold medal in World Championships, added a bronze medal to his tally in the men's 10m Air Rifle individual event.
India's rowing campaign concluded with five medals, with a couple of additions today – bronze medals in men's coxless four (Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar, Bheem Singh, Ashish) and men's quadruple sculls (Satnam Singh, Jakar Khan, Parminder Singh, Sukhmeet Singh).
The second gold medal came in women's cricket, where Harmanpreet Kaur's girls defeated Sri Lanka by 19 runs in the final tie.
Besides that, Roshibina Devi Naorem assured at least a bronze medal by qualifying for the semi-final of women's 60kg category in Wushu.
In boxing, Nishant Dev and Deepak, two bronze medallists from the 2023 World Boxing Championships, qualified for the next round, although Arundhati Choudhary was eliminated in her first bout.
There will be more medals up for grabs tomorrow – the first of which will be as early as 5:30am, in Equestrian. India's star fencer, CA Bhavani Devi will also be in action.
Like always, we will be bringing you all the live coverage, from the first event, till the last. Till then, good night!
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 2: Boxer Nishant Breezes Into Round of 16
Another win in boxing!
After Deepak, his Indian compatriot and fellow bronze medallist of 2023 World Boxing Championships, Nishant Dev breezed into the round of 16. In his round of 32 tie in men's 63.5-71kg category, the 22-year-old youngster from Haryana's Karnal defeated Nepal's Dipesh Lama 5-0.
In the round of 16, Nishant will be up against Vietnam's Bui Phuoc Tung.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 2: Vikrant Baliyan Defeated
In wushu, Vikrant Baliyan has been handed what could be said as a rather unexpected defeat. The bronze medallist of 2019 Wushu World Championships, who was competing in the 1/8 final tie of men's 64kg category, lost out to Indonesia's Samuel Marbun 1-2.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 2: Men's Swimming Quartet Finishes 7th
Another seventh-placed finish in swimming.
The men's 4x200m freestyle relay team of Aryan Nehra, Aneesh Gowda, Kushagra Rawat and and Tanish George have finished seventh with a timing of 7:29.23. They were 27.50s behind the gold medal-winning team from South Korea, who created a new Asian Record.
And with this, swimming events have concluded for the day.