Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 1: Curtain Call
THAT'S IT, FOLKS!
It has been a fairly satisfactory day from the Indian perspective, with many highs, but a few lows as well. Courtesy of shooters and rowers, India have five medals to their tally.
Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita and Ashi Chouskey's women's 10m air rifle team secured a silver medal, whilst Ramita secured an individual bronze in women's 10m air rifle.
In rowing, the pair of Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh won a silver medal in men's lightweight double sculls, whilst Babulal Yadav and Lekh Ram won a bronze medal in men's coxless pair. The team of men's coxed eight also won a bronze medal.
Elsewhere, Nikhat Zareen won her first bout, while the men's football team are also through to the round of 16. The women's cricket team breezed past Bangladesh to assure a medal. In table tennis, however, both the men's and women's teams were knocked out.
We will be back with live action tomorrow morning, with events starting as early as 6am! Till then, good night.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 1: Defeat in Wushi
In wushu, Sunil Singh Mayanglambam suffered a defeat against Philippines' Arnel Mandal in the quarter-finals of men's 56kg. Mandal secured victory by points gap.
Sunil Singh Mayanglambam lost his match.
(Photo: Asian Games website)
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 1: FIFA Pair Suffer Defeats
The Indian Esports contingent started their campaign today with FIFA Online, wherein both Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh have been handed defeats. Charanjot, who made it to the round 4 of losers' bracket, lost 0-2 against China's Jiacheng Liu. Karman Singh, meanwhile, lost in the second round of losers' bracket against Kuwait's Meshari Aldhafiri.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 1: Women's Swimming Team Finishes Seventh
The last swimming event of the day – women's 4x100m freestyle relay – sees India finishing in the seventh position. The quartet of Maana Patel, Shivangi Sharma, Jahnvi Choudhari and Dhinidhi Desinghu clocked a time of 3:54.66. They were 20.70s behind the gold medal-winning team from China.
India finished in seventh position.
(Photo: Asian Games website)
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 1: TT Team Knocked Out
Meanwhile, the Indian men's TT team's hopes of winning a medal will not be materialising, as they succumbed to a 0-3 defeat in their quarter-final tie against South Korea. After Harmeet Desai and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lost their respective games, Achanta Sharath Kamal put up a thrilling fight against Oh Junsung. However, it was not enough, as he lost the tie 2-3.
With this, both the men's and women's table tennis teams have been knocked out on the same day.
India lost 0-3 against South Korea.
(Photo: Asian Games website)