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Asian Games Highlights, Day 5: Gold in Shooting, IND 5th in medals tally

Asian Games 2023 Highlights, Day 5: India won gold, silver and bronze in Shooting, Wushu and Equestrian respectively to finish with a total of 25 medals and lie in the 5th place in the medals tally

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Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiva Narwal
The team of Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiva Narwal narrowly beat the Chinese team to take the top podium

5 min read Last Updated : Sep 28 2023 | 9:36 PM IST

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9:25 PM

Asian Games 2023 highlights | India's schedule on September 29

 
Golf- 04:00 AM IST onwards
 
Men’s and Women’s Individual and Team events where India’s Anirban Lahiri, Aditi Ashok and Shubhankar Sharma will be in action
 
Esports- 11:30 AM IST onwards
 
India vs Kyrgyzstan and Philippines in DOTA 2 team event
 
Women’s Handball- 03:30 PM IST onwards
 
India vs China
 
Women’s Basketball- 05:30 PM IST onwards
 
India vs Mongolia
 
Athletics- 04:30 AM IST onwards
 
Men’s and Women’s 20 km Racewalk final
 
India’s Vikash and Priyanka will be in action
 
Men’s and Women’s 400m Heats
 
India’s Muhammad Ansa Yahiya, Muahhamd Ajamal, Aishwarya Mishra and Himanshi Malik in action
 
Women’s Hammer Throw Final
 
India’s Rachna Kumari and Tanya Choudhary in action
 
Women’s Shot Put Final
 
India’s Kiran Baliyan and Manpreet Kaur in action
 
Swimming- 08:00 AM IST onwards
 
India’s Nina Venkatesh, Vritti Agarwal, Advait Page, Srihari Nataraj, Kushagra Rawat, Aryan Nehra and Sjan Prakash will bve in action in various events. 
 
Badminton- 06:30 AM IST
 
Women’s Team Quarterfinal- India vs Thailand
Men’s Team Quarterfinal- India vs Nepal
 
Boxing- 12:15 PM IST
 
India’s Praveen and Nikhat Zareen in women’s and Lakshya Chahar in men’s matches in action
 
Bridge- 06:30 AM IST
 
India’s men’s, mixed and women’s teams in action
 
Chess- 12:30 PM IST onwards
 
India’s men’s and women’s teams in action in classic format
 
Cycling- 07:30 AM IST onwards
 
Elkatohchoongo David Beckham and Esow of India in action in men’s Keirin
 
Equestrian- 05:30 AM IST onwards
 
Eventing Qualification Tema and Individual Rounds
 
Indian team and Ashish Limaye in action 
 
Hockey- 04:00 PM IST
 
India vs Malaysia- Women’s Preliminary
 
Shooting - 06:30 AM IST onwards
 
Men’s 50m Rifle 3 position Team and Individual qualification and final
 
India’s Akhil Sheoran and Swapnil Kusale will be in action
 
Women’s 10m Air Pistol Individual and Team Qualification and final
 
India’s Esha Singh, Palak Gulia and Divya TS will be in action
 
Squash- 08:30 AM IST onwards
 
India vs South Korea- Men’s Team Semi-Final
 
India vs Hong Kong- Women’s Team Semi-Final
 
Table Tennis- 07:30 AM IST onwards
 
Men’s Doubles- Manush Shah and Manav Thakkar- Round of 16
 
Men’s Doubles- Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Ganasekran alongside Harmeet Desai in Round of 16
 
Men’s Singles- Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Ganasekran in Round of 16
 
Women’s Doubles- Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale and Suthritha Mukherjee/ Ahykia Mukherjee in Round of 16
 
Women’s Singles Round of 16- Sreeja Akula, Manika Batra
 
Tennis
 
Men’s Doubles Final- 07:30 AM IST
 
Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan vs Chinese Taipei
 
Mixed Doubles semi-final Not Before 09:30 AM IST
 
Rohan Bhopanna and Rutuja Bhosale vs Chinese Taipei pair

9:23 PM

Asian Games 2023 highlights | Who have secured medals for India?

 
Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale in Mixed Doubles tennis reached the semi-final to secure at least a bronze medal for India. Similarly, Saketh Myeneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan in Men’s Doubles tennis reached the final to secure at least a silver medal. India’s men’s and women’s squash teams made it to the semi-final, securing at least a bronze medal each for the country. 
 

9:20 PM

Asian Games 2023 highlights | India's medal winners in the Asian Games 2023 so far

 
Medals: Gold - 6; Silver - 8; Bronze - 11
 
1. Shooting -- 10m air Pistol men's team event - Arjun Singh Cheema, Sarabjot Singh and Shiva Narwal win GOLD
2. Wushu --  Sanda 60kg - Roshibina Devi wins Silver
3. Equestrian- Individual Dressage- Anush Agarwalla wins Bronze
4. Shooting -- 50-metre three-position individual event -- Sift Kaur Samra wins GOLD
5. Shooting -- 25m air pistol team event -- Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rythm Sangwan win GOLD
6. Shooting -- 25 m air pistol individual event -- Esha Singh win Silver
7. Shooting- Men's Skeet individual- Anant Jeet Singh Naruka- Silver
8. Shooting -- 50-metre three-position individual event-- Ashi Chouksey wins Bronze
9. Shooting -- Team skeet men's -- Anant Naruka, Gurjaot Singh and Angad Bajwa win Bronze win Bronze
10. Sailing- Men’s Dinghy - ILCA7 - Vishnu Saravanan wins Bronze
11. Shooting - 50-metre three positions team event - Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey and Manini Kaushik win Silver
12. Equestrian - Dressage team competition - India wins GOLD
13. Sailing - Girls Dinghy ILCA4 - Neha Thakur wins Silver
14.Sailing - Men's windsurfer RS:X - Eabad Ali wins Bronze
15. Shooting - Men's 10m air rifle team event -- Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Rudrankksh Patil win GOLD
16. Cricket- India women's team beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs to clinch GOLD
17. Rowing - Men's Four event -- Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish win Bronze
18. Rowing -- Men's Quadruple Sculls -- Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh win Bronze
19. Shooting - Men's 10m air rifle - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins Bronze
20. Shooting - Men's Men's 25m rapid fire pistol Team event - Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh win Bronze
21. Rowing - Men’s lightweight double sculls Final A -- Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh win Silver
22. Rowing - Men’s coxed eight Final A - Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar win Silver
23. Rowing - Men coxless pair Final A -- Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram win Bronze
24. Shooting -- Women’s 10m air rifle team -- Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita win Silver
25. Shooting -- Women's 10m air rifle individual event -- Ramita Jindal wins Bronze

8:17 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Swimming- India women's relay team finish 8th

 
The Indian team of Dhinidhi Desinghu, Hashika Ramchandra, Vritti Agarwal and Shivangi Sharma improved their timing by nearly two seconds from the qualifiers, but still, it was not enough for them to move beyond the last place in the women's 4x200m relay final, where China secured yet another gold. 
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022

7:56 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | India Bridge results- Men’s team in 2nd position

 
The Indian men’s bridge team is in the second position in the qualification at the end of the first eight rounds of the qualification. On the other hand, the mixed team is placed in the sixth position after eight rounds, while women languish at the seventh position in an 8-team pool after the first five rounds. 
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022
 

7:51 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Hockey, IND 4-2 JPN, Japan score again but India win

 
This is very poor defending from India and after keeping the sheet clean for nearly 56 minutes, they conceded two goals in the last four minutes to win the game 4-2. The last goal especially was something that the Indian team must forget before their next game against arch-rivals Pakistan.
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022

 

7:46 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Hockey, IND 4-1 JPN, Japan score from variation

 
Japan were able to score with a variation as their drag flicker passed it on to the passer who rushed from the backline to the near post and converted the pass into a goal. 
 

7:41 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Hockey, IND 4-0 JPN, Abhishekc with a brace

 
Abhishek scores his second as India grow confident in lead. With one goal in each quarter, they have not let the Japanese team settle down and as a result, are 4-0 up. 
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022

 

7:14 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Hockey, IND 3-0 JPN, Amit Rohidas scores

 
Amit Rohidas scores with a penalty corner and the Indian lead is now 3-0 with five minutes having passed in the third quarter. 

7:03 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Boxing- India's Nishant Dev knocks out his way to the quarterfinal

 
India's Nishant Dev knocked out his Vietnamese opponent in just 1 minute and 38 seconds to win his Round of 16 men's 63.5-71 kg match and marched into the quarterfinal. After the disappointment of Bhoria earlier, this is good news for India. 
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022

6:58 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Hockey, IND 2-0 JPN, Mandep increases India’s lead

 
India’s Mandeep Singh scored an acrobatic goal by diving in front of the box in the 24th minute to increase India’s lead to 2-0 at the end of the second quarter. 
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022

 

6:55 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Football- IND 0-2 KSA, India bow out in Round of 16

 
Full-Time
 
India’s best chance at goal was there as they had got a free kick right in front of the Saudi goal in the dying seconds of the match. However, that could not be converted and India bowed out of the football competition with a 0-2 loss against Saudi Arabia in the Round of 16. 
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022
 
 

6:50 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Football- IND 0-2 KSA, Three minutes added

 
90:00 Minutes
 
The best move by India in this half came at the dying seconds of the full time when three minutes were added as injury time. But the Indians wasted the chance. 
 

6:47 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Football- IND 0-2 KSA, Saudis miss chances

 
87:00 Minutes
 
The Saudis falter a lot of chances in the Indian half. But they have not been allowed by the Indians in the second half to even come close to their goal. 
 

6:44 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | Hockey, IND 1-0 JPN after 1st Quarter

 
India remains in the lead after the end of the first quarter thanks to a goal from Abhishek in the 13th minute
 
Image Courtesy- Hangzhou 2022

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First Published: Sep 28 2023 | 5:13 AM IST